23rd February 2015

Turkey's Prime Minister boasted on February 17 he would work to finalise a Free Trade Agreement with Pakistan by June 2015 - but neither he nor his Pakistani colleague mentioned...

23rd February 2015

There are times advocates of free trade need to think before opening their mouths - or uploading their blogs. An apparently praiseworthy article in the Pakistani press about access to...

21st February 2015

The UN's ILO announced on February 17 it had signed a partnership agreement with the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) to promote Decent Work in Faisalabad's textile industry. The programme agreed on...

11th February 2015

Pakistan's Minster for Textile Industry announced its federal government Textile Policy 2014-19 on February 9. Though hailed as a national policy, the announcement consisted of laudable objectives in a number...

10th February 2015

I'd just OK'd my latest FlanaRant - when the real world intervened to show how right I am about extraterritorial compliance liability. Extraterritorial compliance liability is my term (please: someone...

10th February 2015

German campaigning group The European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) announced on February 8 the start of a legal campaign against retailer KiK for further compensation over the 2012 Ali...

7th February 2015

February 6 press leaks claim the September 2012 fire at Ali Enterprises, Pakistan - which killed over 250 garment workers - was the result of arson  by a local political party after...

5th February 2015

US apparel imports, measured in square metres of fabric, grew 4.7% in December, bringing growth for the whole year to 3%. The average price of imported clothing per square metre...

21st January 2015

Rich country garment imports from Bangladesh fell year on year in November for the third time in four months, as Bangladesh's sales to the EU continued to fall - though...

19th December 2014

Pakistani garment makers, in the aftermath of the December 16 massacre at a Peshawar school, are concerned their country's resumption of the death penalty will mean losing their GSP+ duty...

3rd December 2014

Public perception of government and public-sector corruption has recently worsened in virtually all major garment-making countries, according to the 2014 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index. The Index scores public perceptions in...

20th October 2014

With slowing growth in the volume of garments the rich world imported in August, imports from Bangladesh showed the first year on year fall since before the Rana Plaza collapse....