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Insight16 Sept 2016Leading Russian clothing designers are developing plans to start significant volumes of domestically produced exports to Western markets during the next several years.
Insight28 Jul 2016Turkey may resume supplies of its textile products to Russia thanks to the recent improvement of relations between the two countries, according to the Russian ministry of industry and trade.
The Russian government has approved a proposed programme of state support for Russia’s textile manufacturing industry, covering the current financial year, as it seeks to protect the industry against foreign competition.
Insight2 Sept 2015The Russian Union of Entrepreneurs of Textile and Light Industry has welcomed progress towards forging a free-trade agreement between Russia and Iran – despite the fact that this follows similar negotiations between Russia, India and Vietnam, which could also increase imports.
Insight24 Jul 2015Russia’s textile industry is bracing itself for another wave of competitive imports, following an agreement between the Russian and Indian governments to forge a free trade deal. This follows the agreement of a trade deal between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), of which Russia is the dominant member.
The Kazakhstan government has told WTiN.com that the recent successful outcome to almost 20-years’ negotiations aimed at enabling the country to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) will help boost its textile industry. A WTO working party on Monday approved the details of a deal allowing Kazakhstan to join the WTO, which should now be rubber-stamped by the WTO’s general council, with accession maybe coming by the end of this year and certainly in 2016.
Insight23 Jun 2015Russian textile industry analysis have warned that their government should carefully monitor the flow of Vietnam-made imports of fabric and yarn into Russia, as a result of the new free-trade-area agreement. A deal was signed on May 30 between Vietnam and the recently-launched Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) comprising Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Insight2 Jun 2015The Russian Union of Entrepreneurs of Textile and Light Industry, together with some of the country’s leading textile producers, has called on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to suspend the fulfilment of some Russia’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) obligations affecting the textile industry.
Insight1 May 2015The fall of the Russian ruble is pushing leading Russian textile and clothing brands into considering abandoning outsourcing abroad, shifting production back to Russia and away from China and other Asian countries, government officials’ claim.
The Russian government is continuing its optimistic stance over the future of its textile industry, despite the fall in the rouble, which will make imported inputs far more expensive for Russia-based manufacturers.
The Russian government is planning to nationalise the textile sector of Crimea, the former Ukraine region it annexed in March, helping spark a series of sanctions against Moscow by the European Union (EU), the USA and others. These restrictions include a ban on western companies trading with Crimea, intensifying economic problems that have worsened since the Russian takeover. Russia has now dubbed Crimea one of its nine federal districts, unless goods and services are routed through Ukraine customs.
The Russian government is considering imposing a ban on the imports of textile and nonwovens machinery after October 20, if the EU and the USA further tighten their economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia as a result of the Ukraine conflict.
The Russian government has ordered that public procurement from overseas of textiles, knitwear, nonwovens and some clothing should cease from September 1, as it tightens the screws on imports following the imposition of western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
The governments of the Eurasian Customs Union - Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia - are considering designing a collaborative package of measures aimed at developing their national textile and light industries. One key element of this programme will be combatting illegally produced and imported textiles and textile products into customs union territory.
Russia might have signed a series of intergovernmental agreements with China, but the Russian textile sector will not be a direct beneficiary, the Russian ministry of industry and trade has confirmed to WTiN.com.
Insight15 May 2014Russia's leading textile producers are pressing the Russian government to approve a package of measures aimed at supporting the industry. The measures were developed at last month’s International Forum of Light Industry: ‘Russia : Light industry : Present and Future’, staged in Moscow.
The Russian nonwovens industry has shrugged off the potential impact of tougher sanctions that maybe imposed against Russia by the European Union (EU) and the US because of the Ukraine crisis, although there is concern about the loss of valuable imported inputs.
The Crimea crisis and potential imposition of economic sanctions on Russia will not damage the Russian textile industry, partly because the government in Moscow is likely to respond by erecting textile import restrictions, experts and officials have told WTiN.com.
