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30 May 2007
China's chiefly wool exports rose strongly (by both value and volume) in the first two months of 2007 compared with the same period last year.
29 May 2007
New Zealand wool exports for the 2006/07 season to March declined moderately in volume (mkg clean equivalents), compared with the same period last season.
25 May 2007
In another strong week with a slightly smaller offering and a 0.4% drop in the US exchange rate, the Australian wool market finished 2.5% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week.
24 May 2007
Prices for alpaca and cashmere increased solidly in March year-on-year. Since the beginning of 2007, Chinese cashmere prices have increased moderately and alpaca prices have remained stable.
23 May 2007
China's strong economic growth in 2006 built a solid foundation for boosting customer expenditure in calendar year 2007.
22 May 2007
The average price of United States wool apparel imports increased between 2005 and 2006 however, between 2005 and 2006, the value and volume of wool apparel imports into the US both decreased.
18 May 2007
In another strong week with a bigger offering and a drop in the US exchange rate, the Australian wool market finished 1.8% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week.
16 May 2007
Strong recovery in the imports of wool coats for the Autumn/Winter 2006/07 season was the main driver for the increase of wool apparel imports in Japan for 2006.
15 May 2007
Last month's United States decision to impose countervailing duties, tariffs designed to offset the benefits of subsidies to exporters, on coated paper imports from China could pave the way for countervailing duties on other imports from China such as textiles.
11 May 2007
In a very strong week with a small offering and an increasing US exchange rate, the Australian wool market finished 2.4% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week.
10 May 2007
Taiwan's wool textile industry reported yet another disappointing set of results during the final quarter of 2006.
9 May 2007
Data has shown that in the third quarter of the 2006/07 season, supplies of medium merino wool offered at auction shrunk significantly compared with 12 months previous.
8 May 2007
Data show a significant increase in the value of Australia's raw wool exports year-on-year in February this year. Export raw wool volumes are shown to have increased less strongly.
4 May 2007
The Australian wool market finished 0.3% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week.
3 May 2007
Data released by the ISAE Institute revealed Italy's consumer confidence index strengthened at the end of the first quarter.
2 May 2007
Data shows that Australian merino wool volumes fell sharply in March this year, as the delayed effect of the 2006 drought dramatically reduced the amount of wool received by brokers and tested by AWTA.
1 May 2007
Australian wool prices (EMI) have had two major surges in recent times - in the 2002/03 and the 2006/07 seasons. Prices in the Chinese wool market (as measured by Nanjing Wool Market (NWM) price index), show similar trends to the Australian EMI, both in the 2002/03 and 2006/07 seasons and during the periods in between, when the Australian EMI experienced continuous declines.