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Garmenting Accessories Expo' 09 鈥� the 45 days online trade fair event at fibre2fashion is in the works. While it has been less than a month after making the first-hand announcements about the event, the current popularity chart is largely high and still increasing. This second edition of its yesteryear's version, Trims Supplement 08, is seeing immense response from both, the exhibitors' as well as the visitors' side.

Milliken & Company, one of the world's largest privately-held textile and chemical manufacturers, and Winner Garment Industries Ltd., a manufacturer specializing in custom-designed industrial protective wear, announced that Winner Garment will now offer Amplitude, Milliken's premium, high-performance line of flame resistant (FR) fabrics for industrial workwear to its customer base.

The Honourable Vic Toews, President of the Treasury Board on behalf of the Honourable Christian Paradis, the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, and the Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, announced the awarding of a contract to Peerless Garments of Winnipeg to supply camouflage rain suits to Canadian Forces' soldiers.

AUSTRALIA has reduced the local content requirement for all garments exported to Australia under the SPARTECA-TCF scheme.

Premier Mr Wen Jiabao chaired an executive meeting of the State Council on March 25, 2009 in which it was decided to increase the export tax rebate of textile, garment, light industry and other sectors from April 1, 2009 onwards ...

The Office of the Textile Committee, India has recently released a detailed report containing the consumption levels of textiles and garments in the domestic markets. The report is based on data of purchases for 2007 and the sampling data consisted of 13,950 households from 116 metros/semi-urban areas and 261 rural areas of India.

The economic turmoil has started taking its toll worldwide and has started affecting operations of a majority of countries in the business of exports of textile and clothing. But the one country to beat this trend seems to be Indonesia which has a booming garment export industry and which accounts for 60 percent of all shipments from the textile sector.

Recently, National Wages Council approved pay hike for nine industries, including garment, printing, building, hotel and catering, security, road transport, saw milling, and wholesale and retail that would come into effect from January 1, 2009.

An apex body of garment exporters today called for a hike in duty drawback rates, research and development assistance of 6 per cent and income tax exemption for five years to offset the huge losses piling up due to current global economic slowdown.

Bangladesh's garment industry is growing rapidly despite the global economic turmoil as China loses orders due to high prices and worldwide demand for cheap clothing soars.