Middle East and Africa
Exhibition News
Pakistan to Participate in AllFashion Sourcing Cape Town 2025
Pakistan will be joining the prestigious AllFashion Sourcing Cape Town event, scheduled for July 8–10, 2025. Known as the premier sourcing event on the African continent, AllFashion Sourcing brings...
Middle East and Africa
Türkiye’s Textile Employment Drops Below 1 Million Amid Industry Struggles
Türkiye’s textile and apparel industry has seen a sharp decline in employment, dropping below the 1 million mark...
Economy News
UAE and Central African Republic CEPA to Boost Trade Beyond AED3.67 Billion
The UAE and the Central African Republic (CAR) have signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) aimed at...
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Syria: A New Battlefield for Textile Exhibition Organizers!
Syria has always been considered one of the most important countries in the Middle East. Even before the...
Garment & Fashion
Sun Tekstil’s AI Investment Set to Transform the Fashion Industry
Sun Tekstil has taken a major step towards revolutionizing the fashion and textile industry with a groundbreaking investment...
Indian govt approves special package for leather, footwear
The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi has approved a special package for employment generation in leather and footwear sector. The package involves implementation...
Pakistan’s textile sector: Policy grievances marked 2017
Grievances against government policies and regulations from all quarters of the textile industry and demands for amendments marked the year in Pakistan despite former...
Bt cotton seeds effective, MMBL writes to Indian minister
US firm Monsanto’s Indian joint venture Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMBL) has termed the threat by industry body National Seed Association of India (NSAI) to...
Uzbekistan exported textile worth over $1 bn in 2017
Light industry enterprises of Uzbekistan exported products worth $1.1 billion to 50 nations in 2017 and the share of value-added products exceeded 40 per...
Over 390 Indian companies showcasing at Heimtextil
More than 390 Indian companies have come together together to showcase the country’s textile expertise at the world’s biggest fair for interior textiles – Heimtextil Frankfurt this...
Turkish-Algerian JV to set up textile unit in Relizane
Construction of one of Africa's largest textile production facilities, named ‘Tayal Spa’, was flagged off recently by Algeria's industry and mines minister Youcef Yousfi in the...
UAE has the lowest VAT regionally and globally
The UAE has the lowest VAT regionally and globally, compared to countries such as UK, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, South Africa and Australia, according to...
As Jordan’s garment sector grows, activists push for better migrant workers’ rights
Jordanian labour officials have begun inspecting migrant housing, but improvements have not necessarily followed
Layers of drying laundry swing on clotheslines strung atop dormitories inside...
Algeria-Turkey textile factory becomes first to export materials
Algeria’s largest textile factory announced yesterday that it is now exporting its cotton yarn products to Turkey, in the first such move.
According to a...
Textile-Clothing: APII outlines reasons behind failures
“The problems of the textile and clothing sector have intensified after the revolution as a result of the flight of foreign contractors, in addition...