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Intelligence22 Jul 2021The ‘new normal’ of Covid-19 has forced the Indian textile & apparel industry to look more seriously into digital solutions to industrial processes. Munish Tyagi explores a new yarn control software and its potential impact.
Insight7 Sept 2020The cotton industry is in distress due to a wipe-out in global demand, the impact of the US-China trade wars on China, and the subsequent build-up of global cotton stocks, with India and countries in Africa now taking the lead.
Over the last three years, India has emerged as the largest producer of both cotton and cotton yarn. However, its share in the global textile & clothing (T&C) industry has not gone beyond 3-3.5%.
Insightfree20 Dec 2018India’s textile industry has been on a rollercoaster ride since the end of 2016. This is primarily due to the sudden ‘demonetisation’ of the India rupee that was quickly followed by the universal GST (Goods and Services) tax regime which took the wind out of the majority of small and medium industrial enterprises which were mainly servicing the domestic textile consumer market.
Insightfree14 Sept 2018It is now clear that the US has initiated the era of disruptive trade policies by activating withdrawal from the original Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and by its ongoing efforts to rework and modify the NAFTA agreement with Mexico and Canada
Insightfree30 Aug 2018With both the textile exports and the domestic consumption slowing down, it seems that India’s textile and clothing (T&C) industry has entered a phase of stress and duress in the face of increasing global competition from peer countries such as Vietnam, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan
