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Vietnam expects benefits from the new free trade agreement, the CPTPP (the TPP, now without the US) though lower than it would have been with the TPP with the US, according to analysts. However, the textile and garment, will still receive huge benefits from the CPTPP because the commitments on opening markets made in the old TPP have not changed.

As for the textile and garment industry, Japan is the second largest export market for Vietnam, with annual growth rate of 23 percent.

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Turkish company Cotam Enterprises Ltd. inked an agreement with the Ministry of Textile Industry of Turkmenistan to set up of a new textile complex in the country. Construction work of the complex will kick off from the next month.

The upcoming textile complex is expected to be operational by March 2021. It will be set up in Turkmenistan’s Akhal Velayat (region) and will be equipped with modern textile manufacturing technologies.

Related Keywords: AGOA, Clothing 360, CTG, development of Ready-Made Garment in Nigeria, ecommerce platform, Made in Nigeria initiative, major player in readymade garment industry, Nigeria Ministry of Industry, part of KACK Group, promote implementation of policy on Cotton, public and private patronage, signed a MoU, textile and garment, trade and investment

The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment envisaging development of Ready-Made Garment in Nigeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday with Clothing 360, part of KACK Group a major player in the readymade garment industry around the globe, to promote implementation of the policy on Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG). Other areas of intervention include the promotion of the Made in Nigeria Initiative, which involves an e-commerce platform.

Related Keywords: textile and garment, Zambia Textile Industry

Government in Zambia says it is determined to revamp the Textile and Garment subsector because of its huge potential to spur economic diversification.

Commerce Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe said the sector also offers opportunities for technological innovation and adaption for the engineering sector in the production of handloom equipment.

She said that Government will continue to promote the implementation of policies and programmes that support the growth of the textile and garment sector in Zambia.

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Vietnam, one of the biggest garment exporters in the world with $24 billion worth of exports in 2014 and to put out such big volume of goods the industry needs 6.5 billion meters of cloth more a year. In order to make out the volume of cloth, it will also need $6.5 billion worth of investment capital, 60 percent of which would be spent on machines, according Nguyen Van Tuan, deputy chair of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vinatas).

Related Keywords: focus on handloom, Kerala Business to Business Meet, Kerala government, make state business friendly, one-to-one interaction between sellers and buyers, promote SMEs, State department of industries and commerce, textile and garment

The Kerala government will be organizing Kerala Business to Business (B2B) Meet 2016, a three-day business meet in Kochi in February next year, exclusively to promote Small and Medium Enterprises of the state. Kerala is taking serious steps to make the state business friendly. The event will be organized by state's department of industries and commerce.

Related Keywords: adapt new economic structure, adjustment in labor force, from untrained to skilled, highest GDP growth rate changes, investment growht plan, see expansion in business field, textile and garment, VEPR, Vietnam after signing TPP

The Vietnam after it signs the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which includes member countries that make up 40 percent of the world’s trade to see the highest GDP growth rate changes among TPP members. It is forecasted that the GDP growth rate changes would be between 0.11 percent and 2.04 percent, according to the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR), an arm of the Hanoi National University and Japanese Nagoya University.

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Textiles and garments are the key export item of Vietnam, with $24 billion worth of export turnover in 2014 and an expected $27-27.5 billion in 2015. However, there is a big problem that while foreign invested enterprises are expanding, Vietnamese firms have dwindled.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed immediate inauguration of a special committee to look into the revival of cotton and textile industry. The cotton, textile and garments industries across the country have become “shadows of themselves” due to influx of cheap textile materials, inconsistent government policies and dumping of sub-standard textile materials in the country.

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Textile and garments worth N300 billion being annually imported into Nigeria without paying duties or taxes. This was revealed by Issa Aremu, the General-Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria in llorin, the Kwara State Capital at the 26th National Education Conference of the Union. He is also the vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).