9/17/2007 10:48:00 AM
In August, China´s textile and apparel exports posted 19.09 percent year-on-year growth, reaching a new all-time record of 18.09 billion U.S. dollars, which was up sharply from year-ago levels. Textiles accounted for 5.429 billion of this total and apparel the balance. September 2006 throug…
9/14/2007 3:35:00 PM
China´s yarn output reached 1.6952 million tons in August, which reflected 7.2 percent year-on-year growth and was also the second highest monthly production level on record. September 2006 through August 2007 cumulative yarn output totaled 19.03 million tons, representing 18.70 percent yea…
9/14/2007 10:14:00 AM
U.S. textile and apparel imports totaled 9.113 billion U.S. dollars in July, which reflected 5.3 percent year-on-year growth, while import volume increased 5.2 percent to 4.790 billion square meters. Imports from China grew 25.5 percent to 3.289 billion U.S. dollars; Mexico remained the second larges…
9/14/2007 10:09:00 AM
China´s trade surplus reached 24.97 billion U.S. dollars in August, which represented a 33 percent increase from year-ago levels. The January through July cumulative trade surplus increased 71 percent to 161.76 billion U.S. dollars. August exports increased 31.3 percent to a total of 23 bil…
9/13/2007 3:29:00 PM
Despite China´s rising monthly inflation, which reached the highest level in ten years at 6.5 percent in August, there remains intense price competition in apparel. Monthly apparel prices fell .9 percent in August from a year ago, the largest monthly decline in a year, which compares to a .…
9/13/2007 2:08:00 PM
A delegation of Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) led by its Chairman Zahid Aslam held meetings in Shanghai with their Chinese counterparts for collaboration in the Textile sector. Zahid Aslam while talking to APP from Shanghai said that he was leading an eight-member delegation composed …
9/12/2007 2:25:00 PM
Very strong textile and apparel retail sales have been noted in several key European markets. In Italy, one of the weakest retail markets in Old Europe, apparel retail sales increased 1.9 percent in June from the previous year, while monthly apparel sales have expanded in five of the past six months.…
9/12/2007 2:22:00 PM
A delegation of textile manufacturers from Shanghai is scheduled to visit Pakistan next year to explore the avenues to import textile products from Pakistan. This was stated by Chairman Pakistan Textile Exporter Association (PTEA) Zahid Aslam while talking to APP from Shanghai where he along with an …
9/12/2007 11:59:00 AM
China´s producer price index (PPI) for manufactured goods was up 2.6 percent in August over the same period of last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. The monthly increase was 0.2 percentage points higher over that of July, said the bureau. It said the purchasing …
9/11/2007 11:48:00 AM
The NBS reports that total Chinese fabric output in January through July expanded 13.86 percent to 27.924 billion square meters. 100-percent cotton fabric output experienced the fastest rate of growth, increasing 17.51 percent to 15.309 billion square meters, which represented 54.84 percent market sh…
