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ICA Bremen has announced it will deliver its next ‘Cotton Classing & Testing’ training programme, followed by a new ‘Learning about Machinery’ training course this June in Germany. The six-day ‘Cotton Classing & Testing’ training will take place from June 14-21 in Bremen, Germany.

Cotton prices in the Indian market are expected to rise during the coming “off-season months” on reports of lower production forecast and lesser carryover stocks likely for the next season on better consumption and exports.

China plans to restart auctions to sell off some of its 11 million metric-ton stockpile—the world’s largest—in the second half of April, a move likely to keep cotton prices under pressure meanwhile. China’s National Development and Reform Commission, an economic planning and development agency, will hold auctions from the middle or end of April to reduce its cotton stockpiles, according to CNDRC.

Cotton Outlook continues to forecast raw cotton production in 2016/17 at 22,748,000 tonnes, representing an increase of eight percent on the previous period. Cotton area is expected to increase modestly and a repeat of the current season?s reduction to yields is not foreseen. Global consumption is also unchanged, at 23,317,000, just 1.4 percent higher than in 2015/16.

India’s cotton industry is a happy lot now, thanks to the whitefly ravage that has gripped Pakistan, threatening to push Pakistan’s cotton production to an 18-year low
in 2015/16, according to the latest projection from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The Indian Government has notified certain changes in the All Industry Rates of Duty Drawback vide Circular No. 06/2016-Customs dated February 9, 2016. These changes are effective from February 11, 2016. New entries in the Drawback Schedule have been created for cotton yarns mixed with MMF – both grey and dyed.

COTTON USA will promote US cotton and offer sourcing support to the fashion industry supply chain at its exhibit at Texworld in Paris from February 15-18, 2016, in Hall 2 E029.