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US Blocks Imports From 26 More Chinese Companies Under UFLPA

Textile Insights May 18, 2024

The United States has blocked imports from 26 Chinese cotton traders or warehouse facilities as part of its effort to eliminate goods made with the forced labour of Uyghur minorities from the US supply chain. The companies are latest additions to Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)

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Chinese Research On Cotton Crop Resistance To Adverse Climates

Textile Insights April 18, 2024

The Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences will invest Yuan 15 million to develop cotton crops, which will cope with adversities such as pests, high and low temperatures, droughts, etc. The academy will introduce biological technologies such as genetic engineering to develop and introduce excellent genes into cotton crops to improve their resistance to various

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Chinese Cotton Planting Acreage To Decrease 1.5% In 2024

Textile Insights April 11, 2024

The China Cotton Association conducted the second phase of the 2024 cotton planting intention survey among a total of 1,997 designated farmers in 10 provinces and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The survey results show that the country’s intended cotton planting area in 2024 is 41.12 million acres, a year-on-year decrease of 1.5 percent, the same […]

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Chinese Cotton Production Decreases 6.1% In 2023

Textile Insights December 25, 2023

Chinese total cotton output stood at 5.61 million tons in 2023, down 362,000 tons or 6.1 percent compared with 2022, according to data of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Cotton cultivated acreage amounted to 41.82 million acres in the ongoing year, a decline of 7.1 percent or 3.18 million acres over the earlier year. […]

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Biggest Chinese Cotton Growing Region Turns Into Textile Hub

Textile Insights November 28, 2023

Xinjiang province in China which accounts for 90 percent of total Chinese cotton production is now becoming a textile and apparel production centre. As of date, there 3,720 textile and clothing manufacturers compared to only 711 in 2014 Attracted by the advantage of easy cotton availability, 1,340 of the 3,720 companies have invested from outside […]

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China’s Sustainable Cotton Acreage Touches 1.2 Million Acres

Textile Insights November 27, 2023

Cultivated acreage of Chinese sustainably grown cotton has touched 1.2 million acres in Xinjiang province, which accounts for 90 percent of overall Chinese cotton production. The province is projected to produce 170,000 tons of sustainably grown cotton in the 2023-24 season. The sustainable cotton project is being managed by the China Cotton Association under an […]

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Traces of Xinjiang Uygur Cotton Found In US Apparel Imports

Textile Insights September 2, 2023

US Customs has detected links to cotton grown in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in 28 percent of all tests done on apparel and shoes imported from China. Under an act enacted in 2022, the US banned import of garments produced from cotton grown in the Xinjiang Uygur region, over allegations of forced labour. “These […]

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2023 Cotton Output Forecast To Decline In China

Textile Insights August 28, 2023

Chinese cotton production is forecast to decline in the current cotton season, primarily in its main cotton growing region of Xinjiang Uygur, due to the impact of the US import ban and also diversion to other food crops. Cotton output may drop by 10 percent in China, amid a food security drive and also due […]