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Insight20 Oct 2017In a cutting-edge area of the textile sector such as digital manufacturing, planning and distribution, it is always helpful to know what the gold standard is for performance
Insight18 Oct 2017The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned of the major impact on British finishing-chemical companies and their trading partners in Europe
Bangladesh is expected to soon ratify the emerging market D-8 PTA preferential trade agreement, indicating the government may have loosened demands over rules of origin.
Insight28 Jul 2016Textile, yarn and fibre manufacturers in Britain face a risk that their exports to the European Union (EU) will attract duties now the UK government has confirmed it will push ahead with leaving the EU, following the Brexit referendum.
Insight2 Feb 2016Details have been released that reveal a number of tariffs are to abolished regarding textile inputs and products exported and imported between Vietnam and the European Union (EU) under a trade deal struck in August 2015.
Insight1 Dec 2015The Tunisian textile sector is looking to benefit from the launch of trade talks between the European Union (EU) and Tunisia – which should upgrade the North African country’s already robust commercial links with Europe.
Insight26 Oct 2015The European Commission has asked the textile finishing sector to assess a list of chemicals that may cause cancers and mutagenicity problems in consumers. Brussels is considering using a fast-track procedure under European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH to impose controls on the use of these chemicals in clothing and textile articles. This procedure would bypass a series of steps that are usually taken when imposing controls on so-called CMR (carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction) substances. These include the production of a special dossier and consultation with bodies such as the European Chemical Agency’s risk assessment committee (RAC) and its socio-economic analysis committee (SEAC).
Insight26 Jun 2015The committee for socio-economic analysis (SEAC) of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has launched a consultation on its backing of ECHA proposals to restrict the use of decaBDE as a flame retardant, aiming to reduce emissions from this chemical, used widely in textile applications.
Textile-finishing companies with products manufactured or sold in the EU have been told to re-examine them in respect of their biocidal impact, in case combinations of chemicals within a preparation create a new biocide during and after use.
Insight17 Feb 2015The Pakistan government has released its long awaited 2014-19 textile industrial policy, which includes a target of doubling the country’s overall annual textile and clothing industry exports to €26bn by 2019. Pakistan’s federal minister for the textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi and his ministry’s top official secretary Amir M Khan Marwat have announced the government will spend Pakistan Rupees PKR64.15bn ($632m) on working towards this goal until 2019.
The creation of a consultative textile and clothing ‘buyers’ forum’ in Pakistan, linking brands with manufacturers, government and unions, has moved a step closer following an international meeting staged in Islamabad.
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 sale to Russia of multi-directional, multi-dimensional knitting and interlacing machines, including adapters and modification kits, specially designed or modified for weaving, interlacing or braiding fibres, for composite structures has been banned by the European Union (EU).
Insight2 Sept 2014Chinese investment in sub-Saharan Africa’s textile processing sector is creating new capacity for finishing, but progress is uneven. Whilst China’s growing presence in the region is far from universally popular, industry figures consulted by WTiN.com across the continent were generally positive about the trend.
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.
