Textile crisis forces hands
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Egypt, Israel and the United States signed an agreement Tuesday that gives products of joint Israeli-Egyptian manufacture duty-free access to the United States and may save Egypt&#39;s threatened clothing industry.
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The U.S. textile industry said yesterday that it is formally asking the Bush administration to cap China's shipments of trousers, shirts, sheets and other textile items to the United States, warning that an expected flood of Chinese imports next year will otherwise wipe out thousands of American jobs.
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Someone else is running out of things to close.
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Fourteen children working in a textiles factory have been rescued after media reports said an Indian clothing supplier to US retailer Gap was employing underage workers, an activist said Tuesday.
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The US textile industry is deeply worried by competitors from India and China as the end of the quota system on December 30 approaches, a media report has said.
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The signs of labor unrest seen over the weekend may be a harbinger of things to come in an industry already buffeted by bankruptcies and structural change.
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Governments from nearly 30 countries demanded Friday that the World Trade Organization undertake an urgent review of what might happen when textile quotas end Jan. 1. The
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The credit crisis may be fouling up  billion-dollar takeover deals, but if you're a poor African  seamstress who needs a loan for a new sewing machine, you could  not ask for a better borrowing market to expand your business.
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The Bush administration, sending another signal that it intends to limit imports of clothing from China next year, announced yesterday that it will consider a request by the US textile industry
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More than 260 people could lose their jobs at a medical equipment firm in Ballymoney, County Antrim.
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China has agreed to place duties on certain textiles to placate fears that it will flood the world with low-cost products when textile quotas officially fall in three weeks, in response to pressure from the US and Europe.
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Sportswear retailer suffers another damaging blow.
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Relief supplies were arriving in south Asia Wednesday, but getting them where they&#39;re needed the most is proving to be a challenge.
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Charities say families struggle to afford school uniforms because of expensive suppliers.
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By Wes Burdine  Correspondent           When heavy rains wash over Fairview Road in Providence Township an entire neighborhood becomes landlocked, and access for emergency vehicles becomes impossible.           Providence supervisor chairman C.W.
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BEIJING, June 21 -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (IPS) - EU proposals to improve competitiveness in the  clothing and textiles industry before trade quotas run out offer  little comfort to developing countries, civil society groups say.