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Yang Jiheng and his wife Lv Hongwei are making embroidery shoes at home on Thursday, October 25, 2007. [Photo:hb.chinanews.com.cn] Embroidery is no longer just a pastime for people of the Tujia Ethnic Group in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province; nor is ...
In order to promote the fashion and textile industry in Hong Kong, the Government has decided to set up a fashion design center within next six years. This will act as a platform for young designers to showcase their creations and utilize other facilities provided by the ...
irm on improving the quality of clothes for pet dogs, China is determined to issue certain standards for ‘pet dog clothes’ in November. The new standards will include details of regulations pertaining to the appearance and size for the clothes of pet dogs. For instance, the back ...
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) announced the retail sales of London for November 2005. Retail sales in Central London during November were 2.1 percent higher, on a like-for-like basis, than in November 2004, when sales had picked up 1.4 percent. November's result was the ...
Argentine cotton exports amounted to 22,606 bales against 4781 bales imports in October. The figures indicate slow trade movements in the industry. For the first time since 2001, Argentina has remained a net exporter of cotton through October. From January to October, exports ...
India currently exports 6 billion US dollars worth of garments,"whereas with the WTO (World Trade Organization) regime in place, we should aim to enhance exports to over 18 billion US dollars by 2010," Indo-Asian News Service quoted Kalam, in his address while presenting national ...
The Department of Energy announced recently that it has signed with China’s National Development and Reform Committee a memorandum of understanding that aims to increase energy efficiency in China’s industrial sector, which accounts for 70 percent of the country’s total energy ...
While a perpetual conflict between Chinese customers and dealers is still creating havoc, a new problem of ambiguous and inefficient Chinese consumption law has taken its toll on the textile consumer market. Only a few cities like Shanghai have detailed regulatory provisions, ...
The European Union will end quota restrictions on import of textiles from China and instead monitor textile imports with a joint surveillance system to be in place in 2008. The `double checking system' will track the issuing of licences for export in China and the import of goods ...
Following the agreement of China and EU over textile export, the two sides agreed to establish a “double-check system” in bilateral textile trade on September 28. The check system will cover 8 categories of goods, including T-shirts, pullovers, trousers, bed sheet, and bras, ...
October 30, Reach & Touch, a creative fashion event initiated by China National Textile and Apparel Council and collaborated by a dozen of associations and institutions, kicked off in Shanghai Pudong Expo. The event will last until November 1st. The China Textile Network Company ...
Le Quoc An, chairman of the Viet Nam Textile and Garment Association, said with just less than a month to go for the year-end the original target of US$5.2 ?5.4 billion seemed out of reach and the revised estimate was $4.8 billion. He said by November? end, exports were only ...
A firm check on Chinese exports of children clothing in September revealed shocking results. Nearly 22.5 percent of the export was marked as unqualified in the safety items where as another 50 percent were disqualified in the non-stretching section of accessories. The scrutiny ...
Those members of the chamber of commerce can find the result from its Website. Last week, 28,296 qualified textile enterprises in China joined the bidding for export quotas on 21 categories of textiles to the US next year. The competition is very heated due to a half-year block ...
The fourth China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO), slated for Oct. 28-31, will focus on port development, official sources said here. This annual event will be held in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, featuring topics ranging from port development and cooperation between ...
Markets for Plus-size clothing are rapidly increasing in countries like Europe, America, and India and China is certainly no exception. Of late, sales of average sized garments have shown a stark decline in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. Demand for over-size clothing ...
Fashion models strut on the catwalk at the inaugural show at 2007 Shanghai Fashion Week, on Sunday, October 28, 2007. Chinese fashion giant Erdos shared the limelight with top world brands by launching its cashmere line "1436." This year's event, running until November 6, will ...
Washington - Viet Nam and the US have decided to further extend their bilateral garment and textile agreement until Dec. 31, 2006. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed in Washington on Dec. 9 by Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Tam Chien and David Spooner, ...
Wool prices declined everywhere this week, when expressed in US$ terms. Demand is not so weak, but sales are depressed by currency variations in the Southern Hemishpere. China's wool textile production is far from surging at the same time with prices falling in Nanjing. Wool ...
SHANGHAI: China's textile exports are likely to jump 19 percent on year to $175.5 billion this year, while the industry's overall profits would rise 30 percent to 113.5 billion yuan ($15.16 billion), according to media reports on Saturday. Citing official data, the newspaper said ...
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