Billions of rupees as premium on quality and withholding gross repayments to ginners have been stuck up with the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) after seizure of accounts by IT Department. The Income Tax (IT) Department has seized the accounts of Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) for failing to submit the ...

Federated Farmers is embracing the $323 million home insulation package announced in Budget 2009. It is not only good for New Zealanders but by using poorer quality coarse wools, could also be good for the ailing wool industry. “I’m walking the talk having installed wool insulation in my house last ...

The trouble began far away from the leaky concrete house and stand of banana trees that Sakunthala Radhakrishnan calls home. In 19 years as a textile worker in southern India, Radhakrishnan saved enough to buy gold jewelry. She sent money to her parents and fattened up her skinny daughter with fancy ...

For six decades BRÜCKNER is worldwide well-known as supplier of modular well-tuned lines for the finishing of woven and knitted fabric. The family-run company with domicile and production site in Germany invested in the last years specifically in the strongly growing market of Technical Textiles. Stork Prints is one of ...

ndia's garment exports stood at $10.13 billion in 2008-09, growing by a moderate 4.6 per cent over the previous fiscal despite demand erosion in the US and European economies, reeling under recession. Apparel exports were $9.68 billion in 2007-08. The business confidence would continue to remain low key during the first quarter ...

The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has revised India’s cotton export estimates down at 4 million bales for the cotton year 2008-09. Earlier, the cotton body had pegged cotton exports from the country at 5 million bales. According to ...

The Handloom Mark Scheme introduced by the Central Government has received poor response from weavers in Salem district. The district has over 28,000 private weavers. But only about 250 weavers have registered under the scheme till January 2009. Forty three ...

Gokaldas Exports Ltd., India’s biggest garment exporter, says the rupee’s slide to a record low helped to win orders from rivals in China, where the yuan gained against the dollar in the past year. “The yuan’s stability and the rupee’s ...

Domestic sales of textiles and textile products made in Indonesia in the last three months increased by about 15 to 20 per cent as a result of the government's policy to tighten import of five manufactured commodities, including textile products, an industry official said. "The trade ministry's efforts to regulate the ...

Cotton prices in Punjab and Haryana have spiralled by up to 13 per cent in the last one month on account of rising demand from the local spinners. Prices of cotton yarn have also inched up by 13-14 per cent in the same period and this has helped spinners protect ...