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China exported 141.6 billion U.S. dollars worth of textile and apparel products in the first 10 months of 2007, a growth of 20.1 percent over the same period of 2006. The total included 95.61 billion U.S. dollars worth of clothing and accessories, up 22.9 percent, and 45.95 ...
A total of 187 countries and international organizations have confirmed their participation at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, organizera said in Kunming on Sunday. The number has already set a record in the World Expo history, surpassing the previous record held by Hanover, ...
Vietnam is in danger of quickly using up quotas in some apparel categories raising the possibility of early embargoes. US importers apparently shifted orders to Vietnam, following last year's poor experience with China. The country is however reeling from a quota corruption ...
Replying to Golam Mohammad Siraj (BNP-Bogra), he said the government has declared the textile as thrust sector for its development and is gradually reducing import duty and tax on capital machinery, construction material and spare parts needed for this sector. Besides, he said ...
Singapore`s Textile and Fashion Federation announced Tuesday several projects worth 11 million Singapore dollars (about 7 million U.S. dollars) in a bid to boost the development of the industry. According to a press release by the International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore)...
A saleswoman demonstrates a luxury watch at a store in Guangzhou, capital of southern China's Guangdong province, on Saturday, January 5, 2008. The watch is made from 120 grams of gold and inlaid with 208 diamonds, and sells for 99,800 yuan (US$13,718). Only a limited 2,008 ...
Statistics Finland released producer price indices for the last quarter of 2005. According to Statistics Finland, producer price indices for services rose in the last quarter of 2005 from the corresponding quarter of the year before in all industries except in washing and ...
Under the Memorandum of Understanding on China-EU Textile Trade signed in Shanghai in 2005, agreed limits on China's export of 10 categories of textiles to the EU will expire at the end of 2007 and Chinese textile exports to the EU will no longer be subject to any quota or ...
NextMart Inc, a Chinese direct sales company, announced that it has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors. The Company has appointed Mr. Tao Kan ('Kan Tao' according to English word order), a seasoned investor with extensive experience in corporate management, to ...
A variety of China dolls, designed as gifts as well as adornments for the New Year, attract a lot of attention from consumers in a store in Zaozhuang City, in eastern China's Shandong Province. A girl displays her selection, a pair of China dolls, at the store on Thursday, ...
Garment export increased by 20 percent last year, and it is expected that increase would be around 40 to 50 percent in the next year, according to a leading manufacturer and exporter of fabric and garment. China leads in denim garments and it can provide garments at 50 percent ...
HANOI: In order to cop with increasing input cost, furious competition in the domestic market due to reduction in import tax rates to 0-5% and US export quotas levies, Vinatex are concentrating on building trademarks to increase the value of its products, sources said here on ...
Fourteen fashion shows and seven special-topic seminars highlight Hong Kong Fashion Week (HKFW) for Fall/Winter 2008 and World Boutique, Hong Kong 2008, January 14-17, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). More than 1,470 exhibitors from 19 countries and ...
Cheaper Chinese textile machinery with faster delivery has forced Indian buyers to give up business with industry giants like Germany and Japan. Rs7000-crore Indian machinery market wants to meet rising global demand, but its demand is almost one and half times the supply as the ...
Esquel Cotton Investment Limited and Akesu Esquel Agricultural Development Company Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited (Standard Chartered Bank) on a Microfinance program in Urumqi, aiming to assist local cotton farmers ...
Workers in about 80 percent of China's foreign-funded and private enterprises will form trade unions by the end of the year, a top union official said Tuesday. It aims to unionize 70 million migrant workers in the tertiary and secondary industries, too, to help the working class ...
Hong Kong's toy exports grew 25 percent to 88.8 billion HK dollars (about 11.4 billion US dollars) in the first 11 months of 2007, said the Hong Kong Trade Development Council here Monday at a toys and games fair. "In the first 11 months of 2007, toy exports grew 25 percent to 88...
HANOI - The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), a US footwear industry group, has joined European shoe importers and retailers in opposing the possible imposition of anti-dumping tariffs on shoe imports from China and Vietnam. The AAFA has urged the European Union ...
Karen Mok poses for her own lingerie collection Passion Play. Hong Kong singer and actress Karen Mok designs a collection for lingerie brand Passion Play, and poses for it by herself. Karen recently announced the news of her breakup with longtime lover, 33-year-old Hong Kong ...
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