| ITC Launches ONLINE Cotton Exporter's Guide
The International Trade Centre (ITC) today launched a dynamic, interactive trilingual version of its Cotton Exporter’s Guide as part of its drive to increase the exchange of information in the sector and improve the skills and abilities of developing countries in cotton trading and marketing.
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| Fairtrade cotton sales on the up in UK
..The news comes as the Fair-trade Foundation urges more British retailers to join the likes of Littlewoods, Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Top Shop who all expanded their Fair-trade ranges last year.
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| Cotton is becoming the pick of the commodities
"We're very bullish. Over the past couple of years, consumption has pulled quite strongly ahead of supply. Stocks are tight" Allen Terhaar, director of the Cotton Council International in Washington
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| NTA Comments On WTO Draft Proposal
....challenged the status of Bangladesh and Cambodia as “least developed” in the apparel sector, .. combined textile and apparel exports to the US totaled $3.4 billion in the first 10 months of 2005.
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| China hints at easing currency limits
... Yuan’s gains were mostly propelled by market factors, such as the dollar's weakness on global markets, political pressure is also mounting," a dealer at a European bank said
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| Uganda: Textile industry boosted
……a step ahead in beating the September 2007 expiry of third party fabric sourcing under the AGOA initiative ...American investor to set up a textile mill.
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| Biotech Cotton Area Rising
The average yield with biotech varieties is estimated at 967 kilograms of lint per hectare, compared with a world yield estimated at 725 kg/ha
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| Textile Sectoral is a “Must Have” in Doha Round
Trade groups from NAFTA, CAFTA and Andean region say textile sectoral is a “must have” in Doha round, groups call on their governments to act to prevent China from dominating future world textile and apparel trade
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| Cotton Global Trade to Reach Record Level in 2005/06
... total supply for 2005/06 is forecast at 35.3 million tons, the largest in history. ..use of new technologies( biotech cotton), is contributing to lower production costs .....It is estimated that 27% of world cotton area was planted to biotech Varieties in 2005/06
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| Local Cotton Industry Benefits Little from AGOA
EVER since Uganda started exporting apparel to the US under the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), the country has not exported a stitch of locally-produced fabric and AGOA has stimulated little growth in the cotton sector............
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| China E.U textile talks to begin
China and the European Union are due to begin negotiations in Beijing to find a solution for Chinese textile products detained at EU ports. EU negotiators were traveling to Beijing for talks on the trade dispute…..
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| US Approves CAFTA Trade Pact
"This win sends a powerful signal to the region and the world that the United States will continue to lead in opening markets and leveling the playing field," said Rob Portman, the U.S. trade representative, in a statement issued immediately after the vote.
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| China : Cotton futures spells uncertainty
Though long-term forecast for domestic cotton prices remains uncertain, but short-term forecast indicate prices will remain relatively stable , says industry insider.
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| African Leaders Complain of Red Tape in AGOA Deal With U.S.
"We tend to qualify when it comes to good governance, a democracy, respect for human rights, the rule of law, ....... we're struck out because it says that we are not poor enough. And yet we are poor," said President Festus Mogae of Botswana
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| Bush Adminstration Cuts U.S. Ag Budget, Caps Subsidies
"There's a point at which there should be a limit," said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. "The realization was there that very large sums of money were going to very few, and that very controversy is what the president is zeroing in on."
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| LESOTHO: Efforts to reopen textile factories underway
The government hopes to save at least 5,000 jobs if the three factories become operational again. The factory set to open this month will provide 500-600 jobs, while the other two employed 1,200 and 3,300 workers respectively
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| UGANDA
Ugandan President Praised For Cotton Subsidies, Ugandan Ag Minister 'Booed' For Cotton Prices
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| Newsmakers
Beck Named ICA Director General, Dunavant to Retire In June and Gazanfer Named 2005 IFCP Chairman
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| US contests China's textile tax
The Bush administration and the American apparel industry had been counting on the re-imposition of quotas on Chinese apparel exports under special "safeguard" provisions that China accepted as part of the price of its joining the World Trade Organization in November 2001.
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| EAC Customs Union Launched
Common External tariffs and Internal Tariffs for Extra regional imports and intra-regional trade respectively to be implemented by member states as from 1st January 2005.
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| Chipata Cotton Encourages Zambians To Boost Production
The Chipata Cotton Company is encouraging 20,000 small-scale Zambian cotton farmers to agree to increase their cotton production this season to help meet the needs of a new cotton gin in the country's Eastern Province.
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| Textile makers threaten global unrest
Textile manufacturers from around the world have called on political leaders to either crack down on cheap textiles imports from China or face "economical, political and social unrest around the globe".
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| WTO & Subsidies
Implications for US agricultural policy and the WTO negotiations
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