Foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali had a meetingwith high level business delegation of the German-Asia Pacificbusiness community in Hamburg, the business capital of Germany,and discussed ways to strengthen business ties with Bangladesh. The interactive luncheon meeting, held on Thursday, was representedby prominent German business persons having diverse and long standingbusiness interests in Bangladesh. A number of innovative ideas were brought to the attention of theBangladesh foreign minist

The Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC) on Friday estimated the output for 2016-17 will remain 11.039 million bales. The second meeting of the CCAC took place with Ministry of Textile Industry Secretary Hassan Iqbal in the chair to assess the crop volume and area in 2016-17. The Plant Protection Department, Trading Cooperation of Pakistan, Pest Warning Department, Central Cotton Committee, Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) and cotton growers from Punjab attended the meeting.

Pakistan RMG exports surged 3.76% during the first two months of the current fiscal year. During the same period, about 5,109, 000 dozen readymade garments worth of $ 364.072 million were exported, as compared to the exports of 4,944, 000 dozen worth of $350.867 million of same period of last year. According to reports, bed wear exports rose by 5.28 percent, as about 58,365 metric tons of bed wear worth $355.799 million exported during the same period. The exports of bed wear were recorded

Pakistan government has taken many steps to boost cotton exports which has witnessed negative trends during the fiscal year 2015-16 as compared to the last fiscal year 2014-15. Cotton exports have declined from $11,983 million in the fiscal year 2014-15 to $11,020 during the fiscal year 2015-16. Due to inconsistency in yield of cotton crop, rising cost of business and shrinking global demand resulted in decrease of cotton prices in the market and consequently, this affected the exports.

Sharp increase in yarn prices have hit the powerloom units very badly and most of suppliers have now decided to cut production by downing their shutters once in a week to stay in the business by avoiding huge losses. "We are trying our best to clock a handsome business ahead of Diwali. But, we are finding it difficult to meet the orders as yarn prices have gone up," said K Suresh, president of Erode Powerloom Owners Association (EPOA). In the current scenario powerloom weavers were forced to u

The yuan joined the US dollar, the euro, the yen and British pound in the IMF's special drawing rights (SDR) list of currencies that countries can receive as part of IMF loans. It marks the first time a new currency has been added since the euro was launched in 1999. According to economist Nguyen Minh Phong, the change will have both positive and negative impacts on Viet Nam's economy. He suspects China will now have to restrain its devaluation of the yuan in order to take more responsibil

The average salary of laborers in the textile and garment sector has increased by 12% this year compared to last year, shows a survey of online recruitment provider JobStreet.com. Data of JobStreet.com showed Vietnamese apparel employees can earn US$402-604 per month each, equivalent to only half of that in Malaysia, 25% of Singapore, 1.1 times lower than in the Philippines but 1.2 times higher than in Indonesia. The wage is also higher than the country’s average salary of US$384-582 per p

China's economic growth is expected to stay "around 6.7 percent" in the fourth quarter of 2016 and for the whole year as major indicators point to stabilization, a report showed Thursday. Investment, consumption and industrial output all improved in recent months due to government stimulus and recovering upstream industries, according to a report released by a financial research institute with the Bank of China (BOC). "The downward pressure has been somewhat reduced, but the economy remain

CHINA’S currency moved slightly yesterday with banks offering ample dollars to meet demand from companies for greenback just days before the yuan is included into the International Monetary Fund reserve basket. Traders told Shanghai Daily that the government wants to see yuan traded within a narrow range of guidance rate when it is about to officially enter the IMF’s reserve basket, known as Special Drawing Rights, tomorrow. The spot market of yuan opened at 6.6724 yuan per dollar and was

CHINA'S foreign trade remains under heavy downward pressure due to increasing uncertainties, despite improved export and import data in August, an official has said. The difficulties are not short-term problems, with uncertain and unstable factors increasing, Shen Danyang, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said. Foreign trade improved markedly in August, customs data showed in September, with exports and imports rising 5.9 percent and 10.8 percent respectively, the first time since N