ANALYSIS: Can clothing suppliers rally against current crises?
From the credit crunch in the West, to rising raw material and fuel costs, and even strikes caused by the soaring price…
Food, fuel and fashion
-
-
BANGLADESH: Garment workers protest at pay and prices
Hundreds of Bangladeshi textile workers are reported to have gone on the rampage in the port city of Chittagong at…
-
CHINA: To cut import duties on cotton
China’s Ministry of Finance is to temporarily reduce import taxes on 26 commodities, including cotton and food items, in an…
-
BANGLADESH: Garment workers strike over rising food prices
Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh went on strike yesterday (15 April) calling for higher wages to offset the country’s…
-
INDIA: New trade measures aim to boost exports
India’s Commerce and Industries Minister Kamal Nath has unveiled an annual trade policy that includes a number of initiatives to…
-
ANALYSIS: Inflation takes hold in apparel supply chain
Inflation’s back, and for retailers with slowing sales it couldn’t have chosen a worse time to rear its head. Rising…
-
PAKISTAN: Factory workers protest over pay
Shoe factory workers have staged a protest rally in Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan, asking for an increase in their wages. Hundreds…