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NCR workers unrest adds to cost strain on firms already hit by Iran warWorker protests over minimum wages are escalating in Noida and Manesar. This unrest, following a significant wage hike in Haryana, is incre...- A year after uprising, Bangladesh's youth struggle to find jobsBangladesh faces a youth unemployment crisis after political upheaval. Quota reforms sparked protests, but job creation lags. Garment facto...
- Before Trump, Indonesia had another trade headache: ChinaIndonesia grapples with China's growing economic influence, as cheap Chinese goods flood the market, threatening local industries. Garment ...
- How a US tax loophole supercharged China's exportsA recent policy shift ended tariff-free imports from China to the United States. This change impacts both American shoppers and Chinese exp...
- Inside factories in China, a struggle to survive Trump's tariffsChinese factories in Guangzhou face challenges as President Trump's tariffs reach 125%, causing order cancellations and uncertainty. Small ...
- Bangladesh mills feed fast fashion but go slow on green energyWith competition from Vietnam and mounting production costs, immediate investments in renewable energy and efficient technologies are essen...
- Indonesia searches for ways to balance domestic industries with surging Chinese importsA protest by workers in Jakarta prompted Indonesian Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan to announce in July that the government will impose im...
- China’s plastics boom is set to create another trade headacheChina's petrochemical sector grapples with overcapacity as polyester products exports increase, straining global trade relations.
- Work comes to a standstill at world’s most important portsNingbo is one of the world’s top container gateways and a crucial part of the global supply chains that connects factories in East China to...
- How global supply chains are falling out of fashionThis shipping quandary is roiling several companies in the clothes, and wider consumer, industry. Hugo Boss is also looking to bring manufa...
- China’s electricity crunch is world’s latest supply-chain threatLocal governments are ordering the power cuts as they try to avoid missing targets for reducing energy and emissions intensity, while some ...
- What recovery? Clothes retailers cut orders while factories fight to surviveThe pain is flowing to major garment manufacturing centres like Bangladesh, whose economies rely on textile exports. Factories are struggli...
- Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both endsCOVID-19 lockdowns have obliterated a retail sector already struggling to survive before the coronavirus hit, which has, in turn, contribut...
- Bengaluru's garment sector has a big Covid tearMany of the highly employment-intensive clothing units in and around the city are either shutting down their operations or laying off emplo...
- Masks to help fashion brands beat pandemic bluesSeveral apparel makers and fast-moving consumer goods companies had earlier stepped up to produce medical-grade masks as a philanthropic ac...
- Covid-19 Impact: Stylish face mask is the new focal accessory of India’s top fashion brandsSeveral apparel makers and fast-moving consumer goods companies had earlier stepped up to produce medical-grade masks as a philanthropic ac...
- Foreign trade policy with long-term goal of self-reliance in worksStrengthening India's domestic manufacturing, making India self-reliant in many products and a separate chapter on e-commerce could be high...
- Coronavirus hits retail: Uniqlo shuts almost half of 750 China stores, Burberry sees 80% decline in footfallL'Oreal, too, joined the growing list of brands that have expressed concern.
- Industry not doing its bit in creating jobs: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind PanagariyaThe global merchandise export is $16-17 trillion and there should be an effort to raise India's pie, irrespective of increase or decrease i...
- Era of cheap Chinese goods threatened by new worker powerMigrant workers, for years the backbone of China's export miracle, are discovering their economic muscle, threatening an end to the flood o...
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