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African Nations Need Export Plan
GENEVA — Poor African apparel exporting nations need to diversify their product mix away from commodity-type…
Senators Make $11.5B Stand on Bush Highway Budget
The Senate has added billions of dollars to a highway bill aimed at upgrading the decrepit U.S…
CAFTA Debate Heats Up on the Hill
"By passing CAFTA, we would open up a market of 44 million consumers who already import more of our goods and…
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Sourcing Digest: Creora Taps Former Dupont Execs … U.N. Report Urges Asian Alliances … Global Commerce To Slow …
CREORA TAPS FORMER DUPONT EXECS: Creora spandex has enlisted two DuPont marketing alums to spearhead its…
Egypt Finds a Place in Post-Quota World
GENEVA — Egypt is counting on investment to improve productivity and a recently completed free-trade…
Chinese Firms Focus on Product
BEIJING — Five months into a year they had hoped would present a huge opportunity to grow their businesses…
Shippers Get Modest Rate Hikes
NEW YORK — Ocean carriers shipping goods from Asia are getting most but not all of the rate increases they…
Battling the China Surge: U.S. Stems Import Tide With Safeguard Quotas
The U.S. move to impose fresh quotas on Chinese imports was welcomed by the textile industry, while importers…
China Import Rise Continues in March
Chinese apparel and textile imports flooded the U.S. again in March, rising 36.2 percent, although the rate…
Yarns Go the Tech Route
MILAN — Yarn makers at the recent Filo trade show turned to technology as a way to keep ahead, adding new…
Silk Mills Step Up the Pace
Faced with dramatic changes in international trade rules, Italy's textile industry is trying to find a new…
Swatches: Printing Pedagogy
PRINTING PEDAGOGY: The American Association of Textile Chemists & Colorists and TC2 are set to cosponsor…
CAFTA Splinters Lobbying Groups
The political maneuvering around the Central American Free Trade Agreement is driving a wedge into the…
Portman Seeks Pocketing Resolution
USTR Rob Portman promised that his agency will work to change a provision in CAFTA that allows for foreign…
Justice Urges Court to Rule on Safeguards
WASHINGTON — Justice Department lawyers argued Thursday that a federal appeals court should resolve in its…