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Insight7 Apr 2020The Philippines government hopes to jumpstart its tropical indigenous textile sector through more innovation, but the country’s exporters say significant work needs to be done to score export orders.
Insight18 Jun 2019Vietnamese technical textile producers look set to capitalise on the ongoing trade war between the US and China with an increase in approaches from American automotive supply chain clients already being witnessed
Insight15 May 2019Since China’s Premier Li Keqiang announced his country’s War on Pollution in 2014, the world’s main supplier of synthetic fibres and the second-largest supplier of cotton has consistently reduced its textile sector’s adverse impact on the environment
Insight1 May 2019Vietnamese cotton yarn-makers face a period of uncertainty due to raw material price volatility and the ongoing trade war between the US and China which threatens demand stability from Chinese textile and clothing manufacturers
Insight8 Mar 2019The latest data from the General Department of Vietnam Customs shows that the country’s garment and textile exports grew by 19% in the first two months of the year from January-February 2018, outpacing 2018’s full-year growth of 16% and serving as an early indicator that official export targets for 2019 may easily be met
Insightfree20 Feb 2019The growth in fast-fashion contracts struck between brands and Vietnam’s burgeoning outsourcing will boost demand for machinery and equipment in the Vietnamese textile sector as much as the new trade deals that have been struck by Hanoi
Insightfree3 Jan 2019More money will have to be ploughed into Vietnam's textile industry for the Asian country to achieve accelerating growth of textile and garment exports to Canada, after the Comprehensive Partnership and Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) came into effect on December 30, Vietnamese exporters say.
Insightfree7 Dec 2018The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) have endorsed a project named ‘Greening Vietnam’s textile sector through improving water management and energy sustainability’ with the declared aim of transforming the Vietnamese textile industry into one which is more environmentally friendly and sustainable.
Insightfree24 Sept 2018South Korea’s textile exports to Vietnam and the Vietnamese garment exports to South Korea are forecast to register continued robust growth on the back of a range of free-trade agreements linking the two countries
