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22 August 2006
In the 2005/06 season,fine wool production represented 31% of the total clip, compared with a record 32.4% in the previous season.
21 August 2006
The Australian federal government has said current plans for the country's textile and clothing industries are not up for negotiation during trade talks with China.
8 August 2006
As ready-to-wear increasingly reflects chic and womanly womenswear, haute couture collections draw more and more on directional youth trends, with a number of designers drawing on the spirit of youthful fashion, reports WGSN's womenswear trends team.
23 August 2006
Australian wool growers continued to show little sign of rebuilding the Australian sheep flock, with higher slaughterings and live sheep exports continuing in mid 2006.
25 August 2006
The Australian Wool Market finished the week 0.2% higher, on average, at sales in Newcastle, Melbourne and Fremantle this week.
24 August 2006
Geopolitical uncertainty coupled with some disruption in supplies helped lift oil prices to record levels this month and reports continue to suggest that with maintenance shut downs and weather concerns it is likely that volatility will remain during the third quarter.
29 August 2006
Final 2005 data showed a further reduction in Italian spinning sector activity with a fall in overall value compared to 2004. The value of cotton, linen and wool yarn production declined, with cotton seeing the greatest fall.
31 August 2006
Since peaking in mid-March, the Nanjing Wool Market Indicator has trended gradually downwards in line with the Australian wool market.
28 August 2006
Chinese textile exports to the US during the first six months fell 76%, China's top planning body said while cautioning the industry to brace itself for even less growth in H2 exports, with India continuing to be one of the major beneficiaries. Restraints saw China's
China is targeting annual retail sales rises of 11% in real terms up to 2010, the Commerce Ministry said Thursday (August 24).
30 August 2006
The ups and downs of Japanese retail were sharply in focus Wednesday (August 30) as a reverse in recent retail sales growth highlighted the uncertain nature of the sector's recovery and speculation over Marubeni's plans for major player Daiei intensified.
2 August 2006
Looking at consolidated trade data reveals a moderate gain in Japan's imports of chiefly-wool men's suits for the month of April, the first year-on-year rise in eight months, while for the first four months of the year, men's suit imports dropped. Fabric orders for Japanese men's fabric weavers for the Autumn/Winter season were also disappointingly low.
1 August 2006
In an environment of high exchange rates, the Australian Wool Market fell by 1.2%, on average, when sales resumed in Sydney and Fremantle this week. Melbourne is still in recess.
3 August 2006
Retail sales in China have continued to gain strength, spurred on by rising consumer incomes.
11 August 2006
In an environment of continuing high exchange rates, the Australian Wool Market finished the week 0.2% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week.
9 August 2006
During the first half of 2006, the Japanese wool textile industry started to report an increase in activity levels.
10 August 2006
The first four months of 2006 saw a further reduction in production output within the Italian textile and apparel sector, a downturn compared with 2005.
15 August 2006
By the end of the first five months of 2006, China's clean wool imports topped the peak for the same period in 2000. Despite this growth in imports, there remained plenty of quota available for raw wool (greasy, scoured, carbonised and waste) and top (carded and combed) for the period.
16 August 2006
The volume of wool consumed in the US spinning industry continued its steady decline by the close of Q1 2006, falling 7% compared with Q1 2005.
18 August 2006
The Australian Wool Market finished the week 0.4% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week.
17 August 2006
A strong increase in the level of Korea's wool consumption during the first quarter of 2006 was supported by a recovery in domestic wool textile industry coupled with a lift in apparel imports from China.