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RBI’s
questionable cotton production statistics
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) continues to keep its eyes
closed to the ground realities, while presenting its estimates
of cotton crop for the 2004-05 season, as also for the earlier
seasons.
Market
access for Indian garments in US and EU - II
India has been in negotiation with SAARC partners on SAFTA.
Current Indian customs tariffs, insofar as garments are concerned,
are 15 per cent ad valorem or a certain specific duty (in
rupee per piece) for selected items of garments.
Uneasy
calm in Tirupur
This columnist witnessed an uneasy calm in Tirupur recently.
It is not the lack of sell orders but the prevalence of a
court order which is troubling the knitwear manufacturers.
Is
Indian TEI making the most of the global machinery trade shows?
New
Projects
Tinius
Olsen introduces state-of-the-art material testing machine
Tinius Olsen, UK with an experience of more than 125 years
is the leading specialist manufacturer and supplier of static
tension and/or compression materials testing machines.
Lenzing
upbeat about India, to set up viscose plant in China
Already well-known for its speciality cellulosic fibres Lenzing
Modal and Tencel, Lenzing Fibers is all set to expand its
base in India. The Austria based, world’s cellulose fiber
technology leader, Lenzing Fibers is soon becoming a more
aggressive player in the Indian textile market.
CITI
moots new scheme for revival of weak mills
With lukewarm response to the debt-restructuring package,
which was announced two years back for the revival of technically
viable but financially weak mills in the country, the Confederation
of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has mooted a new scheme.
SDC
and National Physical Laboratory define standard format for
data
A new standard for communication between colour computers
has been developed by the Colour Measurement Committee of
the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) working in partnership
with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
TAI
office bearers
Mr C Bose, managing director, Silvassa Industries has been
elected the president, and Mr Mahendra Tanna, managing director,
CHT India, the vice president of the Textile Association (India),
Mumbai unit, for the term 2005-07.
Italian
furnishing fabric maker eyes Indian market
The Italian Trade Commission (ICE) has organised a trade delegation
from Italy comprising of Italian companies who are seriously
looking at possibilities of business and industrial cooperation
with Indian companies.
US
industry reapplies for nine safeguards against China
Citing continuing Chinese govzrnment intransigence on bilateral
consultations and an ongoing flood of Chinese textile and
apparel imports, US textile industry and labor union officials
announced that they have filed to reapply nine current safeguards
covering sixteen product categories through the end of 2006
on September 14.
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