• Challenges of Modern Trends for the Apparel Sector

• Decline in Textile products export

• Women to have 75% quota for SMOT programme
• Powerlooms sector demands R&D support
• US officials resisting Pak textile inclusion into ROZs
• Pak fabric, garment exporters gear up
• Strategy for achieving Cotton Vision-2010
• Misuse of R&D facility
• APTMA NWFP seeks subsidized energy
• Textile sector allowed one-time refinance
• Strategy to boost exports on anvil
• PRGMEA concerned over cut in duty drawback rates
• Textile exports down 7.8%
• $40 billion export in five years achievable
• R&D support incentive for textile units
• Government urged to reduce cost of inputs
• Textile industry backbone of industrial sector
• Textile exporters fear losing orders
• Imported knitting machines exported to China
• Cotton output target hard to achieve
• R&D facility not a solution for boosting export
• Textile made-up exporters may lose $42 million
• Imported fabrics flood markets

(AFRICA)

• Loss of textile market costs African jobs

(AFRICA)

• Protections to outworkers requested

(BANGLADESH)

• Textile exports reach US$ 10 billion by 2010
• Bangla’s woven and knitwear apparel exports increased
• Pakistan keen to relocate textile industries
• GSP facilities unutilised on strict rules of origin

(BRAZIL)

• Cotton exchange ties with Egypt
• Suape Têxtil focuses on Arab world

(CHINA)

• Textile exports to US & EU slow down in 2006
• Sino-Pak textile business continues to grow

(DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

• Plunge in textiles overseas sale

(INDIA)

• Silk export earnings surge by 9.7% in 2005-06
• Cotton exports forecast to 4.25 million bales in 2006-07
• Labour reform to save textile industry
• Govt imposes special duty on cheap textile imports

(IRAN)

• Large-scale textile factory to be set up

(KOREA)

• Smart fabrics could boost Korean textile industry

(SOUTH AFRICA)

• Cotton farmers alive next to hope

(SWAZILAND)

• Federation demands package for textile sector
• Textile industry losing 40% business yearly

(TAIWAN)

• Everest Textile boosts R&D to support continued growth
• Textile manufacturers report remarkable growth

(TAJIKISTAN)

• Cotton Industry faces depletion

(THAILAND)

• Textile industry outlines new scheme to improve production
• Cotton import shows an upswing

(TURKEY)

• Textile industry holds strong position

(USA)

• US signs textile MOU with Philippines
• Textile & clothing exporters must for survival

(VIETNAM)

• Hanoi textile sector targets 16% annual growth by 2010

• 2006 SDC Perkin Innovation Award: winner announced
• Daniel Hirschi appointed new CEO at Benninger
• U.S. Textile Trade official Jim Leonard retires

• Presentation on ‘Textile chemical finishing & University- Industry interaction’
• The IRO Weft Technology Exhibition 2006

• Innovation and Knitting
• Quota Free Era – What has happened after 18 months
• Effect of roving tension controller system using different variables and their effect on yarn quality
• High-Speed Testing in Textile Laboratories