Textile news from LESOTHO
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LESOTHO: Recovery in textile industry to boost economic growth
[Aug 22, 2006] The economic growth of Lesotho is set to grow from 1.2 percent in 2005 to 2 percent in the current year as the textile industry expanded...
LESOTHO: Textile industry makes a remarkable comeback
MEM [Jul 08, 2006] Lesotho's textile industry has made a remarkable comeback, setting an example for the region and giving thousands back their jobs; Bahlakoana Shaw Lebakae, deputy secretary-general of the Lesotho Clothing and Allied Workers Union said...
LESOTHO: New textile factory expected to employ 3,000 workers
[Mar 30, 2006] A new clothing and textile factory that is expected to employ 3,000 workers has opened in Lesotho, where the sector has been battered by the end of a global trade quota system in 2004...
LESOTHO: Zero tax rate on certain clothing exports announced
MEM [Feb 10, 2006] Lesotho government has announced a zero tax rate on certain of its clothing exports. Finance minister Timothy Thahane said here on February 10 the cut was to diversify the country's export range...
LESOTHO: Textile unions want to accept wage deal
[Aug 02, 2005] Lesotho's textile unions called on their workers on Aug 1 to accept a wage deal as the industry faces near collapse in the face of Asian competition that has already cost 10,000 jobs...
LESOTHO: Textile workers threaten strike over pay
[Jul 22, 2005] Lesotho's textile unions threatened on July 21 to strike after wage talks with the industry hit hard by Chinese competition deadlocked...
LESOTHO: Productivity and quality key factors to success
MEM [Feb 01, 2005] Lesotho should work hard to improve productivity and quality in the face of stiff competition from Asian textile giants...
LESOTHO: Workers blame end of quotas for job loss
MEM [Jan 13, 2005] Factory Workers Union secretary general Billy Macaefa blamed the closures on the end of worldwide textile quotas...
LESOTHO: Textile industry benefit from AGOA
MEM [Dec 14, 2004] The United States has great respect for Lesotho for becoming the largest textile and apparel exporter to America in sub-Saharan Africa, US Trade representative Robert Zoellick said...
LESOTHO: American Congress agrees to extend AGOA
MEM [May 05, 2004] According to Lesotho's Minister of Trade and Industry, Cooperatives and Marketing Mpho Malie the American Congress has agreed to extend Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA)...
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