Textiles

Review laws on textile imports – Spinnet

25 May 2012

Stakeholders of the textile industry have called on the government to review and amend existing laws on the importation of foreign textiles into the country.

'Textiles Tieton - Gimme Shelter' -- functional, practical, beautiful

23 May 2012

This is a sampling of the textiles on display at the “Textiles Tieton: Gimme Shelter� exhibit, which opens Saturday.

Nigeria arrests 45 illegal Chinese textile traders

23 May 2012

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has arrested 45 Chinese illegal textiles traders in its main northern city of Kano and plans to deport them, the city's top immigration official said on Wednesday. Nigerian law forbids foreigners from certain trades meant to be reserved for locals, including selling clothes. "Our men arrested 45 Chinese, 11 of them are women. We carried out this exercise to salvage our ...