On 19 February, IndustriALL Global Union, the ITUC and a number of global brands will meet with the Cambodian government to discuss the situation in the country’s garment industry following police violence that left four workers dead. The violent end to the strike of Cambodian garment workers, rallying for an increased minimum wage in January, left four people dead, 39 injured and 23 workers imprisoned. Recently two workers were released. Of the remaining 21 detainees, 16 are on hunger strike

China has made some changes to its leather products’ import tariff, with effect from January 1, 2014. According to the information released by China Leather Network, there is no change in average MFN tariff of 12.6 percent for leather products imports. However, import tariffs on leather products from Peru, Chile, New Zealand and Costs Rica have been further decreased compared to last year, as per FTA terms with these countries. The average import tariff on leather product imports from P

Fourth ITMA ASIA + CITME combined exhibition gears up to affirm its position as leading global platform for textile and garment machinery. Global textile majors are wooing Indian textile mills to upgrade their technologies and make new investments in machinery. With India’s annual textile production expected to reach $ 220 billion by 2020 from the current level of $ 90 billion, major investments are expected to be made in India. India’s textile industry contributes about 14 per cent to in

The Ministry of Environmental Protection, Government of China, has announced new discharge standard of water pollutants for leather and fur making industry (GB 30486-2013), to be implemented with effect from March 1, 2014. China has the world’s largest leather manufacturing industry, in terms of scale of production, but it has some major problems, for example, large pollution load, mixed contents in wastewater, different pollution management levels, and little effort in promoting cleaner prod

Cotton made in Africa continues its path of success besides long-term partners an additional 70,000 smallholder farmers benefit from the cotton initiative for the first time. Nearly 70,000 smallholder farmers in Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and C?te d'Ivoire benefit from the Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) initiative's program for the first time and are able to market CmiA-tested cotton. In this way, the initiative is further expanding its cooperation with smallholder families in Sub-Saharan Afr

The exports fell to $2.24bn in January from $2.28bn one month earlier Bangladesh’s readymade garment exports have declined by 1.66% or $38m in January from December as, apparel makers said, production was disrupted by political unrest. The exports fell to $2.24bn in January from $2.28bn one month earlier, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data. “Political unrest has dented the RMG factory production, which reflects in the fall of exports,” said Abdus Salam Murshedy, president of Exp

A fire broke out at a textile mill at Brahmandi in Narsingdi district town on Sunday night, burning down a huge quantity of cotton in its warehouse, UNB reported. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the cotton warehouse of ‘Joba Textile Mills’ at about 9:00pm and it soon engulfed huge cotton stacked there. On information, five firefighting units from Madhabdi, Ghorashal, Manohardi, Raipura and district town rushed to the spot and doused the blaze

Although the output of Da Nang’s textiles and garments companies accounts for only 7 percent of Viet n am’s total, the central city has greatest potential for the future development of this sector, according to a local newspaper. The Trans-Pacific Partnership between the 12 member nations is expected to be signed soon and Viet n am’s textiles and garments industry is likely to enjoy the agreement’s greatest benefits by increasing its competitiveness. Local businesses have made every effor

Around 10,000 workers from the biggest public textile company of Egypt, Misr Spinning and Weaving Company, situated at El-Mahalla El-Kubra industrial city in the middle of Nile Delta, are on a strike since February 10, 2014, over the non-payments of their yearly bonus, Arham Online reported. The workers are demanding that the state-owned textile firm immediately pay the last installment of their yearly bonus, which was scheduled to be disbursed by December 2013, as well as implement the 1,200

The Government of Indonesia is encouraging the use of locally-grown natural fibres like banana, pineapple, etc. by the domestic textile industry to decrease the country’s dependence on polyester and rayon imports, Euis Saedah, director general of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Ministry of Industry, has said. Talking to reporters in Jakarta, Ms. Saedah said the quantity of raw materials imported by the Indonesian textile and apparel industry is quite large. Last year, Indonesia importe