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Textile and apparel imports fell 2.6 percent in the first 10 months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007 and same store sales at apparel chain stores fell 7.1 percent in 2008. The softness in retail sales affected volumes in major retail ports where volumes fell 7.1 percent in 2008 to 15.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units. The push for trade regulations reforms are also discussed.

US Industry Opposed to Increasing Textile Imports The US textile industry is urging the Brush administration to reject developing countries' demands to increase textile imports into the country as it [...]

Interview of Congressman Duncan Hunter Congressman Duncan Hunter of California is one of the few Republican members of Congress with the distinction of having voted against both the NAFTA and […]

INDA, Association of the Non-woven Fabrics Industry, Cary, NC, is embarking on a coordinated effort to broadly introduce the nonwovens industry to members of the U.S. Congress--both the U.S. House [...]

Congress is set to act on a wide range of issues in 1998 affecting the textiles industry following its winter recess. International trade issues, environmental regulation, reform of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, health care reform, team manufacturing, Most Favored Nation status for China, and NAFTA parity for the Caribbean are high on the list.

The media and its expectations of Bob Dole pose the biggest challenges to the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee. Dole is perceived by the media as uncommunicative and cold, a candidate who has nothing of note to say and who rarely smiles. Pat Buchanan, on the other hand, smiles a great deal, and although his message is almost universally decried, he provides great sound bites and is a source of wonderful news items. Even on Super Tuesday, when Dole swept seven states, his victory was overshadowed in the media by the possibility that Colin Powell could be persuaded to join the Republican presidential ticket., On Super Tuesday at a ballroom in the ANA Hotel in Washington, Bob Dole celebrated a sweeping victory. While the crowd chanted 'Dole, Dole, Dole,' reporters and political operatives were [...]

Pres Bill Clinton lobbied the House Textile Caucus for last minute votes to support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and promised to support key textile industry issues if NAFTA is enacted. Pres Clinton specifically stated that he would support improved policing of illegal imports and would investigate a 15 year phaseout of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade., WASHINGTON -- In the attempt to garner the handful of votes needed to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in today's House vote, President Clinton turned to the House [...]

U.S. textile industry representatives were united in their criticism of the current General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) proposal, which was released by GATT Director General Dunkel on December [...]

The Canadian government is planning to eliminate all remaining tariffs on imported textiles in a bid to reduce production costs and provide a competitive edge for the Canadian apparel industry. [...]

Staff Industry concerned about key lender HIGH POINT -- CIT Group, the largest factoring company in the home furnishings industry, is facing an uncertain future after its request for more [...]

The House of Representatives yesterday (June 11) passed a bill that would grant duty-free access for certain apparel and textile items imported into the US from Pakistan and Afghanistan. The [...]

The Moroccan government has launched a new strategy to try to boost exports of key products - including textiles - over the next ten years. 'Maroc Export Plus' aims to [...]

Textile and clothing makers will be among the main beneficiaries of new tax breaks, lower fees and charges unveiled by the government on Wednesday (19 November) in a bid to [...]

Congress acted quickly to override President Bush's veto of the $307 billion farm bill that contains provisions to liberalize country-of-origin rules of Haitian apparel manufacturers and to extend the Caribbean [...]

Recent food riots in Haiti have been leveraged by congressional allies to move forward on tariff concessions for the nation's textile industry. On May 8, congressional negotiators agreed to permit [...]

The US Senate has approved the countryas free trade agreement with Peru which is set to bring strong benefits to both countriesa textile and apparel trade. The deal was voted [...]

Spain's government is set to launch a new plan to help shore up the country's textiles industry, just-style learned on Monday. Under the scheme, the government will provide new research [...]

WASHINGTON -- U.S. trade officials said Thursday they will begin negotiations on a broad textile quota restraint agreement with China after receiving strong feedback in favor of such a deal [...]

WASHINGTON -- A new coalition of six textile, fiber and machinery associations, said to represent $100 billion in annual textile sector sales, endorsed the Central American Free Trade Agreement on [...]

WASHINGTON -- The National Cotton Council, which represents manufacturers and ginners, has reversed position and lined up in support of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The endorsement came after [...]

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of apparel and textile groups bracing for the end of the quota system next year has made a formal request for the Bush administration to go [...]

WASHINGTON -- Textile executives are stepping up efforts to influence voting in North Carolina, where the presidential contest and a pivotal U.S. Senate race are considered too close to call. [...]

PARIS -- Exhibitors at Texworld, the fabric fair that closed here Friday, said political uncertainty and anxiety about the end of global apparel quotas on Jan. 1 had cast a [...]

More than 100 top executives from US textile manufacturers headed to Washington to try to get an extension on textile quotas that are set to expire at the end of [...]

Chief executives from some of the US's top textile companies will descend on Washington today in an attempt to persuade members of Congress to take steps to help the industry's [...]

WASHINGTON -- The beleaguered U.S. textile industry got a boost to its argument over jobs last week when Sen. John Kerry selected as his running mate North Carolina Sen. John [...]

POINT CLEAR, Ala. -- Pros and cons of outsourcing, mounting problems with shipping and the steamroller threat of China on the U.S. hosiery industry were hot topics at the annual [...]

WASHINGTON -- China fever in the nation's capital shows no sign of subsiding. This time it's the lobbying arms of apparel retailers and apparel and textile importers taking their turn, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The beleaguered U.S. textile industry got a political boost Wednesday in the form of two letters sent to President Bush by a cadre of Republican and Democratic lawmakers [...]

NEW YORK -- They're circling the wagons. Besieged by cheap imports and beset by plant closings and the concomitant loss of manufacturing jobs, a coalition of textile/fiber groups and union [...]

WASHINGTON -- After spending the last month agitating in the South, a coalition of textile, fiber and cotton executives are taking their campaign to limit Chinese imports to the Northeast. [...]

NEW YORK -- Wilbur L. Ross, the investor who has agreed to buy Burlington Industries Inc. out of bankruptcy, has plans for the formation of a politically power-packed alliance of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The textile industry is at a crossroads. Facing staggering job losses, quota removal in just 17 months, steep price declines and penetrating imports from China, textile and fiber [...]

WASHINGTON-Congress and President Bush may be on vacation this month, but U.S. textiles industry executives aren't taking a break in their campaign to ratchet up pressure on the White House [...]

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of 14 textile and fiber groups that launched a unified lobbying campaign three weeks ago is still divided on some issues when it comes to free-trade [...]

WASHINGTON -- The textile industry might be making one of its last stands. Facing staggering job losses and plant closures, steep price declines and penetrating imports from China, textile executives [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a rare show of unity, the leaders of six textile and fiber trade and lobby groups got together last week to challenge the Bush administration to invoke [...]

WASHINGTON -- A unified textile industry challenged the Bush administration Wednesday to act aggressively on invoking a special textile and apparel safeguard action against China, claiming it is a 'litmus [...]

WASHINGTON -- The various sectors of the domestic textile industry -- fiber, fabric and yarn manufacturers, as well as cotton farmers -- are setting aside their squabbles over the fine [...]

After trade barriers were lifted in 2001, textiles imports from Vietnam surged. As a result, domestic textiles companies lobbied U.S. officials to place quotas on goods from Vietnam, and retailers [...]

WASHINGTON-The textiles-apparel union UNITE is out and U.S. furniture manufacturers are in under membership changes at a nascent domestic textiles lobbying group spearheaded by textiles magnate Roger Milliken that is [...]

WASHINGTON-The American Textile Manufacturers Institute has expressed concern that the creation of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security may diminish or impair the U.S. Customs Service's ability to investigate, detect [...]

WASHINGTON -- Roger Milliken and his comrades in the domestic textile industry may have lost their bid to unseat South Carolina GOP incumbent Jim DeMint, but they're determined, leading up [...]

At a time when the Bush administration has vowed to help maintain textile jobs, domestic textile executives claim two U.S government-sponsored export expansion programs are at odds with that mandate. [...]