The new year has brought with it a far more upbeat mood among designers, which is translating into greater interest in decorative fabrics and vivid plains, say the organisers of Textile Forum, the UK’s luxury fashion fabric show to be held from March 11-12, 2020, at One Marylebone, London, where more than 100 collections will be exhibited.
The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) recently removed India and several other countries from the list of beneficiaries of trade subsidy preference under the US countervailing duty (CVD) laws.
Garment products made with cotton produced from the US should be provided duty-free access to the American market, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.
When doctoral student Mostafa Jabbari began his research project, the aim was to improve the properties of the material used for textile bioreactors. But he changed tracks and developed a whole new textile material with better properties than was the original goal.
The 5th edition of Resilient Tirupur, organised by Tiruppur Exporters Association (TEA) and NIFT TEA Institute in association with Sripuram Trust and TTPK, was attended by over 1,000 participants including factory owners, supply chain partners, senior professionals and students from textile/fashion institutes. The event was held on February 8 in Tiruppur.
The EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreement, which was approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday, might pose a challenge to Bangladesh’s struggling readymade garment export business as the pact would scrap almost all tariffs on Vietnamese export goods in the European market.