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| Cotton Market Squeezed Between Lack of Supply and Lack of Demand (Weekly Report) |
| 11 April 2011 - Cotton futures sharply rebounded in the last week in New York, due to speculative buying. While a looming lack of supply may boost prices up to higher prices, demand is however depressed by a fall in yarn prices on the international market, with large stocks of cotton fibers and yarns available in China. |
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| Yarn Prices on the International Market (Statistical Report) |
| 22 June 2010 - Prices sharly fell in June on the international yarn market, as reflected by our long list of statistical tables, reflecting actual deals made with end users. |
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| 13 September 2010 - Cotton yarn prices suddenly rebounded in China, over higher cotton fiber prices and a stronger demand from the processing industry. Tight supply is also explaining the higher price offers while yarn processors do not seem able to resist. |
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| Cotton and Polyester Price Comparison: China, India and Pakistan (Monthly Report) |
| 7 April 2010 - Cotton prices continued rising in China and India in the last weeks while they remained more stable in Pakistan. By contrast, polyester prices further increased in India and Pakistan while stabilizing in China. A sudden rebound in Chinese polyester prices is being however observed in the current week. |
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| Bangladesh Apparel Industry Confronted with Social Crisis (Country Report) |
| 3 August 2010 - Bangladesh is currently experiencing a decisive social crisis with violent riots interrupting apparel production. This will result in a sharp increase in production costs in a country where exporters took advantage of very low prices in the past years, as reflected by our statistical tables. |
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| 4 May 2010 - Cotton yarn prices continued surging in the past weeks in Pakistan, as reflected by our list of prices in Karachi and Faisalabad. Demand is however weaker, as yarn processors seem increasingly reluctant in accepting such extremely high levels, our Pakistan Correspondent reports. |
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| 22 July 2010 - EU's import prices declined this year in a large number of clothing categories, reflecting the additional pressure from European buyers. A series of countries were able lowering their prices or offering cheaper products, like China, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, while other origins had to raise their prices or shift to higher-end clothing, like Indonesia, India or even Vietnam, as reflected by our series of statistical tables, detailing EU's import prices per H4-digit product categories. |
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| 30 June 2010 - With Central America being now back to the US market, the duty-free access is still a decisive advantage for regional exporters. The impact of duty-free rules remains however difficult to asses, as recently enlightened by two studies. |
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| 17 June 2010 - Cotton yarn prices continued rising in June in India, as demand remains strong on the domestic market. Tirupur spinners pledged to keep prices frozen until August and more stability is therefore anticipated on the Indian market, our India Correspondent reports. |
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| EU Clothing Import Prices: China Vs. Rest Of World (Statistical Report) |
| 31 August 2010 - Prices of Chinese clothing shipped to the European Union heavily fell in the first quarter this year, after already dropping in last year. This new price decline in the second year without quota is offering China some more competitiveness, if compared with other origins, or 'Rest of the World'. |
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