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THE CULTURAL OBSESSION WITH CHOCOLATE DATES BACK thousands of years. Long before it solidified its place as the symbol of indulgence here in the U.S., chocolate was already an integral [...]

For a pint-sized candy product the new generation of jelly beans is punching above its weight when it comes to keeping pace with current food trends. Reflecting the growing influence [...]

Phillips Collection Honors Krakoff WASHINGTON - It was a good night for American craftsmen. From the art on the walls to its honorees, the annual gala at The Phillips Collection [...]

Byline: LIZA CASABONA Fisher Advises Marymount Students Arlington, Va. Eileen Fisher has one important piece of advice for young designers facing first fashion show jitters: Remember to breathe. 'A little [...]

Byline: LIZA CASABONA Apparel Sales Up in December WASHINGTON Two key U.S. government reports released Friday highlighted the slow road to recovery ahead for the apparel sector. Specialty store sales [...]

Byline: LIZA CASABONA Industry Imports Gain in Nov. WASHINGTON Textile and apparel imports to the U.S. rose 20.1 percent in November compared with a year earlier, to 4.6 billion square [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Cost Issues Take Center Stage at N.Y. Fabric Fairs Rising raw material costs and dedicated price consciousness will color the textiles shows taking place in New York [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Joe's Jeans to Pay $158K in Back Wages WASHINGTON Joe's Jeans Inc. reached an agreement with the U.S. Labor Department to pay $158,952 in back wages to [...]

Byline: BY KRISTI ELLIS AND LIZA CASABONA With contributions from Arthur Friedman, New York, and Khanh T.L. Tran, Los Angeles A SURPRISE TWIST U.S. Manufacturing Showing Signs of Life WASHINGTON [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona U.S. Taking Steps To Settle Mexican Shipping Dispute WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Transportation sent its long-awaited preliminary proposal for ending a standoff over a controversial cross-border [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Trade Winds Could Be More Brisk in '11 WASHINGTON Simmering tensions between the U.S. and China and the Obama administration's ongoing negotiations on a new regional free [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Feds Seize $100K in Fakes in Pittsburgh WASHINGTON U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement said Wednesday it had seized $100,000 worth of counterfeit sportswear, apparel and other merchandise [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Raw Material Costs Taking a Toll WASHINGTON High fiber prices are expected to create some upheaval throughout the supply chain in the coming months. Rising costs of [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Counterfeit Crackdown: Successes but New Worries WASHINGTON Buoyed by alliances with industry and law enforcement, Immigration and Customs director John Morton said efforts to stifle counterfeit goods [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona FTC Issues Guidelines on Platinum Jewelry WASHINGTON The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday released guidelines for jewelry that will impact how certain platinum products can be marketed [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona California Apparel Firm Hit With Labor Settlement WASHINGTON A federal judge awarded 115 workers from a Southern California apparel maker more than $887,000 in unpaid wages and [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona With contributions from Evan Clark Retail Sales Rise in November WASHINGTON Apparel helped lift November retail sales as evidence mounted that consumers are spending again. Retail stocks [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Labuda: 30 Years as Customs' Great Communicator WASHINGTON When asked to briefly describe what she does, Janet Labuda jokingly said, 'What do I do? I raise hell.' [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Vuitton Files ITC Complaint Over Firms Selling Knockoffs WASHINGTON Louis Vuitton Malletier SA and Louis Vuitton U.S. Manufacturing Inc. have filed a complaint with the International Trade [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Taking Social Responsibility to the Next Level WASHINGTON A new era for how companies approach labor and environmental issues has emerged from years of finger-pointing and crisis [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Apparel Importers, Retailers Hail South Korea Trade Agreement WASHINGTON Apparel importers and retailers welcomed the finalization of a long-stalled free trade agreement between the U.S. and South [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Three Plead Guilty in Counterfeit Ring WASHINGTON Federal officials said Friday that three people pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiring to smuggle counterfeit Coach [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona With contributions from Kristi Ellis Feds Shut Down Counterfeit Sites WASHINGTON The U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, in a joint operation, seized 82 Web site [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona With contributions from Alexandra Steigrad Steering a New Course for Global Sourcing NEW YORK 'Life as we know it has changed,' said Peter McGrath, executive vice president [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona With contributions from Vicki M. Young Import Surge Eases in September WASHINGTON Apparel and textile imports to the U.S. continued to increase in September, but the frenzied [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona and Arnold J. Karr Retail Stocks Have Big Week Retail stocks logged four winning sessions in five days and finished with a 4.1 percent advance last week. [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Hahn Looks Back After more than two decades with cotton incorporated, former president and chief executive officer J. Nicholas Hahn is still a cotton guy. Everything he [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona, Mahlia S. Lone, Kathleen McLaughlin and Mian Ridge Caught in a Price Predicament THE COTTON INDUSTRY IS BATTLING STICKER SHOCK. Global cotton prices have hit historic highs [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Forty Years Cultivating the Industry The Cotton Industry faced a crisis as the sixties gave way to the Seventies. By 1975, cotton's share of the textile marketplace [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona With contributions from Evan Clark Retail Apparel Sales, Prices Drop in Sept. Two government reports released Friday point to a weakening in demand for apparel, as retail [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona August Imports Hit Two-Decade High WASHINGTON It's beginning to look a lot like a markdown Christmas is in the waiting. Apparel and textile imports in August rose [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona China's Labor Woes Open Doors for Others WASHINGTON A slew of countries is poised to take advantage of China's rising labor costs. As the world's manufacturing powerhouse [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona and Arnold J. Karr Strong Week for Retail Shares Retail shares resumed their winning ways last week as the S&P Retail Index registered a 1.7 percent advance [...]

Byline: — Liza Casabona Government Hits A&F With $1.05 Million Fine WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday it reached a $1.05 million settlement with teen retailer Abercrombie [...]

Byline: Kristi Ellis With contributions from Liza Casabona The Rhetoric Rises Obama and Congress Push China on Currency WASHINGTON President Obama has put China's currency policies front and center. Obama [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona and Mian Ridge Child Labor Issue Rankles Indian Industry For countries and industries who land on government watch lists detailing alleged use of child and forced labor, [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona With contributions from Evan Clark Retail Sales See August Uptick WASHINGTON Strong back-to-school shopping and heavy discounting helped propel slightly better-than-expected retail sales in August. But sales [...]

Byline: Alexandra Steigrad and Liza Casabona The Copycat Threat Fashion Raises Game In Growing Battle NEW YORK As designers take to the New York runways with their spring 2011 collections, [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona With contributions from Jahir Ahmed, Dhaka, Bangladesh Producers Weather Labor Unrest in Bangladesh WASHINGTON Despite a pending increase in Bangladesh's minimum wage, apparel companies are keeping their [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona SEC Widens Proxy Regulations WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to expand the ability of public companies' minority shareholders to place their own candidates on [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona and David Moin Bloomingdale's Introduces First Outlet Bloomingdale's has a new spin on shopping outlets, which it begins putting to the test today. The upscale chain is [...]

Byline: Vicki M. Young and Liza Casabona Stocks Get Boost, PPI Prices Slip in July Retail stocks rose 1.8 percent Tuesday as investors responded to better-than-expected second-quarter earnings from Wal-Mart [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Retail Sales Fall, Apparel Prices Rise in July WASHINGTON Two government reports released Friday highlighted how far the economy still has to travel to full recovery, but [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona ITC Opens Door for China, Taiwan Tariffs WASHINGTON The U.S. International Trade Commission voted Thursday to clear the way for punitive tariffs to be imposed on woven [...]

Byline: Arnold J. Karr With contributions from Liza Casabona Fed Outlook Sends Retail Stocks Reeling Growing anxiety about the strength and speed of the global economic recovery left retail shares [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona San Francisco Counterfeit Ring Indicted Calling it the largest enforcement action against counterfeit goods on the West Coast, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday that a [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona With contributions from Evan Clark Beige Book: Retailers Cautious on Outlook WASHINGTON Apparel provided a bright spot for some retailers in July, but even with an improved [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Fabric Firms Face Hurdles in Rebound Effort NEW YORK Pinched by higher raw material costs and pressured by buyers for faster turnarounds and lower prices, textile suppliers [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Nike Strikes Deal Over Honduran Workers WASHINGTON Apparently bowing to pressure from labor rights groups and universities over its responsibilities at contract factories, Nike Inc. reached an [...]

Byline: Liza Casabona Retail Apparel Prices Rise in June WASHINGTON Retail apparel prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0.8 percent in June compared with May, but fell 0.4 percent from a [...]