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Exporters in Tirupur want issues that are hampering the growth of exports to be addressed. They want a list of fabric items to be included for import under the Export Performance Certificate, without payment of duty, so as to get the real benefit of the announcement in the budget and enhance their competitiveness in the global market.
They are also interested in a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union. Last year, the European Union received 36.97 per cent of the value of garments exported from India. Exporters feel that if the FTA with the EU takes place in the month of September this year, exports to EU can grow and witness a growth rate of 30 per cent in successive years and double in the next three years.
Exporters also want the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with Canada to be formalized and the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) with Australia to be expedited.
So they say that once the FTA with the EU, CECA with Australia and CEPA with Canada are signed, there will be 30 per cent increase in exports to these countries from the existing level and, at the same time, exports to the rest of countries will grow by 10 per cent. All in all they estimate India’s total garment exports can grow to 33 billion dollars once these agreements are signed.
A World Vision Canada report says, Canadian consumers may be unwittingly buying goods made by child labourers. And those who want to make ethical buying decisions are largely in the dark about what companies are doing to prevent child labour in their supply chains, the report says.
World Vision Canada is calling for a new law to force companies that do business in Canada to report annually on the measures they take to ensure that factories in other countries aren't using minors to make products for the Canadian marketplace. Similar legislation exists in other jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom and California; the US Congress is reviewing a proposed federal law.
Simon Lewchuk, who has been heading the initiative for World Vision Canada says, there is an opportunity for Canada to get on board. It's an issue of promoting the Canadian brand for responsible business; it's an opportunity to ensure that we are competitive too. The recommendation is one of several in the report, which comes one day after Canada ratified an International Labour Organisation convention on child labour that proclaims the minimum age for work should be 15.
One of the biggest and only Indian manufacturer of digital printers in India, ColorJet Group will bring a paradigm shift to the Indian home furnishing industry at Heimtextil 2016 by introducing its wider width direct-to-fabric digital home textile printer Fabjet Grand which is suitable to print on all inks, viz. Reactive, Pigment or Disperse.
The company will showcase live demonstration of home textile printing on products like bedsheets, pillow cover, curtains, table covers, etc on the Fabjet Grand. Exhibitors are encouraged and invited to witness the live demonstration and see the magic of home textile digital printing unfold at the ColorJet stall.
Fabjet Grand is especially targeted at the customised home furnishings textile segment, particularly for producers of home décor products like curtains, bed covers and sofa covers to directly print on cotton and polyester-based fabrics and use environmental friendly aqueous based Pigment, Reactive or Disperse inks.
The product delivers high productivity, since it has two heads per colour in staggered position, which increases production and also has an extremely high practical printing speed, enabling high daily printing volumes and outstanding runability for overnight printing without banding and colour deflection.
Russia plans to create conditions that would attract foreign investments in its national technical textiles industry in the next few years. The planned measures will mainly include provision of tax and customs benefits to foreign investors and the allocation of funds for the establishment of facilities for the production of technical textiles and nonwovens within Russia. One of the biggest purchasers of the products that will be produced at the future plants, to be operated by foreigners, will be Russia itself.
Chinese investors have expressed interest in acquiring some of Russia’s leading nonwovens and technical textiles mills in order to produce and export finished products for their domestic market, where the demand for technical textiles in recent years has significantly increased.
In addition, German and French enterprises have also expressed interest in the Russian technical textiles industry. The companies are planning to supply the latest technologies in the field of technical textiles production.
However, the potential sale of some of Russia’s leading industry players to foreign companies, especially Chinese, has sparked criticism. There are fears foreign acquisitions may pose a threat to the Russian state security, since many of the Russian companies involved in the negotiations supply their products for the needs of the domestic defense and space industries.
Sangam India a B2B player in the textile segment will launch seamless fashion wear, active wear and inner wear. The warp and weft of all the categories will be tweaked in a seamless fashion, and the forthcoming line will be branded as Airwear.
Airwear fits into the casual garment category and is targeted at women 18 to 35. Airwear sets women of today free from uncomfortable side seams, thereby giving them unrestricted freedom of movement. This is apparel that feels light and is extremely versatile in its use. This seamless wear is an option for clothing right from the morning when one exercises till the evening when one is lounging around. Airwear comes with features like odor resistance and moisture management.
The seamless garments will be made with the help of 36 circular knitting machines imported from Santoni, the world leader in seamless knitting technology, and installed at the existing production facility in Bhilwara, Rajasthan. Together these machines have an installed capacity to manufacture 10,000 pieces of seamless garments a day. The huge potential and performance capabilities of these machines come from the technology that enables them to shift easily from one segment in the textile sector to another.
Vardhman Textiles a dominant player in yarn, fabric and sewing threads is now planning to foray into printed fabrics. Besides cotton yarn and blends, it may look at more synthetic and blended yarns and addition to the existing fabric processing capabilities. The company has a committed capex of Rs 800 crores in the next two years.
With its strong position in acrylic staple fiber and wide presence in garments, it has 25 manufacturing facilities employing over 26,000 persons. The largest yarn manufacturer in India with a capacity of one million spindles, including 7,188 rotors, Vardhman is the leading manufacturer and exporter of cotton yarn and piece dyed fabric. It is also the second largest producer of sewing threads and a market leader in hand-knitting yarn in India.
One-third of its total yarn production is exported, one-third is sold in the domestic market and balance is utilised for captive looms. The company has been focusing on automation and customer base expansion. It has de-risked business through value-added and specialized products.
One of the few fully integrated fabric suppliers in the country, and the largest producer of stretched fabric, the company produces a variety of fabrics for tops and bottoms for men, women and children. Vardhman also specializes in finishes like liquid ammonia, Teflon, nanocare, ETI etc.
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Pakistan’s exports have come down by 12 per cent last fiscal year due to taxes, levies and surcharges. These have made exports 10 to 15 per cent costlier against regional competitors’. Bangladesh’s exports rose 6.5 per cent in May from a year earlier on stronger garment sales.
But Pakistan’s exports from July to May, the first 11 months of the country’s 2015-16 financial years, rose 8.9 per cent from a year earlier. Sales of garments, comprising knitwear and woven items, were up 9.4 per cent from a year earlier.
Pakistan’s textile sector contributes around 50 to 55 per cent in the country’s exports. The Textile Policy 2014-19 seeks to double textile exports to 25 billion dollars by 2019, increase the share of value addition and improve the product mix, especially in the garment sector, from 28 per cent to 45 per cent.
The Drawback of Local Taxes and Levies (DLTL) scheme would continue under the new policy. Under it, if any textile exporter achieves incremental textile exports beyond 10 per cent over the previous year, he will be given DLTL at the rate of four per cent for garments, two per cent for made-ups and one per cent on processed fabrics.
The Tirupur knitwear cluster wants hosiery products to be exempt from the packaged product list. And wants the Standards and Measurements Act and Packaged Commodity Rules to be amended. Manufacturers say hosiery products are bought by customers in bulk and that consumers prefer usually one or two basic garments from the main packet that contains a number of pieces. Considering this, hosiery products should be considered as a pre-packaged commodity and not as a packed commodity.
Hosiery manufacturers wanted the amendment immediately as they say they are being subject to harassment by officials even after they sell the products to retail vendors. Since the products fall under the packaged rules, hosiery manufacturers are mandated to display the number of pieces inside, maximum retail price per piece and the name of the manufacturer as a label outside. So even if the vendor sells the products piece by piece, the manufacturer stands to be penalised.
A Supreme Court ruling in 1999 upheld the imposition of fine by the legal metrology department in Kerala on readymade articles of a Palakkad-based readymade manufacturer that was sold in retail. This ruling quashed an earlier high court order that favored the apparel producer.
Origin Africa will be held in Madagascar from November 3 to 5, 2016. This is an international trade fair for textiles and clothing. It will be the engine for the revival of Madagascar’s textile industry, which was affected by the global financial and economic crisis of 2008 and the suspension of the country’s eligibility from the United States’ African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in January 2010.
Amid the political crisis in Madagascar in 2009, the US suspended from 2010 to 2014 Madagascar’s eligibility to AGOA, a program allowing qualified African countries to export a wide range of goods including textile and clothing duty-free to the US. As a result AGOA privileges were removed, hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost, making the country among the poorest in the world.
Through this fair, Madagascar aims to regain its place in the first rank among African countries in terms of textile exports and is planning to export about 100 million dollars worth of textile products. The country currently ranks fourth in Africa behind Kenya, Lesotho and Mauritius.
Before the crisis in 2009, Madagascar’s exports of textile and clothing were worth around $350 million a year but the export value dropped to $15 million in 2010 amid the suspension of the country from AGOA.
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Japan is funding the construction of a modern textile production center in Liberia. The center will cover 3,000 square feet, furnished with modern equipment, including power looms, industrial hand looms and polishing machines. The center is expected to further expand the Liberian textile industry.
The development of a facility dedicated to promoting the expansion of Liberia’s signature textile, known as Lofa cloth, commonly called the country cloth, will stimulate the development of the sector and contribute to meeting the growing demand for Lofa cloth.
The industry will not only be centered on cloth weaving but the development of a cotton industry and the promotion of planting and harvesting of cotton fiber, which will reduce the reliance on imported raw materials and enhance value addition within the textile industry.
The project is a symbol of the potential of the private sector. Liberians are being urged to change their consuming habits and begin buying locally all in an effort to help build Liberia.
Liberia is on the west coast of Africa. Strip woven cloths from Liberia are among the most beautiful in west Africa. Liberia incubates the most natural resources in all of West Africa, including two species of its own cotton.
