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		<title>spinners of India &#8211; novel protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 18:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of spinning mills across the country decided on Tuesday to cut back one-third of their daily production for a week to boost demand and to highlight their plea for steps to check the fall in cotton yarn prices and restore tax benefits. Read the rest of the news here at The hindu Filed under: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=348&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Dan River Inc</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 10:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 126 years of operation Dan River Inc, one more north American textile firm goes down thanks to the fierce competition from cheap Asian imports. As early as 1959, Dan RiverPresidentW.J. Erwin described increased imports of fabric and apparel as an “ever-present threat” until the government takes long-range action in a report to stockholders, according [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=333&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Textile industry of bangladesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going out of my usual style of posting, this post features a video about the $5 billion textile industry of Bangladesh, in an effort to make the blog more lively. The video has great clips on the factories and people who manufacture all the clothes we shop for in the fancy brand names. Pay attention [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=323&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trade deficit &#8211; India&#8217;s help to Bangladesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our view, our engagement with Bangladesh and the growing economic partnership, will bring in rewards for both countries, ushering in generation of jobs and overall prosperity and inclusive growth… We have removed the countervailing duty on jute and increased quota on ready-made garments import from Bangladesh to 10 million from eight million minister of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=311&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan textile exports grows by 30%</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a tough year for Pakistan, first the Turkish tax raise,then the internal tax raise, and then the cotton price increase, these should have affected the trade, but they did not. Here is a recent news clipping Despite challenges of energy shortage, the textile exports surged by 30.43 percent during the first nine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=294&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is time for cotton to find a market price</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stalin sathitharan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly a year of price increase and causing enough troubles for manufacturers and retailers alike, the price of cotton is coming down. The price of cotton fell by 2,500- 5,200 Indian Rupees over the last week. Pakistani cotton prices face the same trend, but not to the same extent. The cotton price decrease is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=299&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reliance Industries mega polyester dream!</title>
		<link>http://spunyarn.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/reliance-industries-mega-polyester-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their annual general body meeting today, Reliance Industries Limited announced that they would make the biggest investment in polyester manufacturing anywhere in the world. The investment is expected to the tune of $9 billion expecting to manufacture around 2 billion tonnes of polyester products annually. When the project is complete Reliance Industries would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=282&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reiter breaks up with Lakshmi</title>
		<link>http://spunyarn.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/reiter-breaks-up-with-lakshmi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stalin sathitharan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When  I grew up studying textile manufacturing, I was surprised that a Coimbatore,India based machine manufacturer managed to have a JV with a Swiss company. That was long cherished business with fond memories of Reiter Lakshmi ring-frame machine. In a recent announcement the JV has been dissolved and would be a wholly owned subsidiary of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=266&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A titbit on apparel price trend in US</title>
		<link>http://spunyarn.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/a-titbit-on-apparel-price-trend-in-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stalin sathitharan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1995, apparel prices have dropped 12 percent, while prices for food, medical services, and energy prices have all experienced double-digit increases, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From The Detroit News. It is a very interesting piece of news that I came across, after reading and speaking about the price increase in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=254&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lankan textile ministry jubliant over results</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earnings from textile and garments exports increased by 121.9 percent to USD 385 million in January 2011, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka reported. This news comes despite the withdrawal of GSP and GSP + preferences to Sri Lankan made textile products from August 2010. The scheme was withdrawn on claims from the EU that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spunyarn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19040519&amp;post=244&amp;subd=spunyarn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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