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USDA projects the lower global

cotton ending stocks in 2021/22

The U.S. cotton projections for 2021/22 show a 100,000-bale increase in exports from last month, to 14.8
million bales, as more robust than expected late-season 2020/21 shipments extend past July 31. However,
U.S. 2021/22 production and consumption are unchanged from last month, and with lower beginning stocks
and higher exports, ending stocks are now 200,000 bales lower, at 2.9 million.

Global ending stocks in 2021/22 are also projected lower this month, down 1.7 million bales to 89.3 million.
Beginning stocks are slightly lower as a 625,000-bale increase in 2020/21 consumption more than offsets
higher estimated supplies. The consumption is also higher for 2021/22, up 1.1 million bales, as increases for
China, Bangladesh, and Turkey offset a lower forecast for India. C&A to install Factory for Innovation in

Global cotton production in 2021/22 is 570,000 bales lower this month, led by a 750,000-bale reduction in
China following recent surveys indicating a lower than expected area in Southern Xinjiang. World trade is 1.1
million bales higher, with increased imports for China, Bangladesh, and Turkey. In addition, expected exports Textiles (FIT) in Germany
are higher this month for Brazil, Australia, Tanzania, and the United States.
C&A will open the Factory for Innovation in Textiles Gold-level certification, and in 2020 its Beluga jeans
(FIT) in Germany to develop next-generation achieved C2C Platinum certification. The brand is
sustainable fashion, beginning with denim jeans. working with the Niederrhein University of Applied
C&A is a Belgian-German-Dutch chain of Sciences, the Textile Academy NRW (North
fast-fashion retail clothing stores, with European Rhine-Westphalia), RWTH Aachen University, and
head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, various start-up companies.
Bangladesh RMG industry in trouble due Germany. It has retail stores in many European FIT will integrate highly automated processes in the
countries. It serves only the most important markets
sewing room and laundry, and together with the
of Asia, North America, and South America.
to 14% order drop from the US Earlier, C&A has developed Beluga Denim in Textile Academy NRW, C&A will hire and train around
100 co-workers to work at the CO-neutral site.
collaboration with a Pakistani Textile Industry (Rajby).
Initially, around 400,000 pairs of jeans per year will
to 800,000 at a later stage.
designed with retailer C&A and C2C assessor Eco
Bangladesh has earned the position of being the third largest exporter of clothes to the US market, following Beluga denim is a 100 percent cotton ecru denim be produced in Monchengladbach, to be expanded
after China and Vietnam. Even though the efforts to contain the coronavirus are successfully ongoing, the Intelligent Growth (EIG). But to ship the denim in
gaping hole that the pandemic has left behind in the business sector is going to be hard to fill. Clothing Europe is costly. Therefore, local production in C&A is one of the most enduring and pioneering
products being globally exported to the USA dropped down to one-fourth in 2020. An improvement has been Europe has become an increasingly important retailers in global apparel – a leading retail fashion
observed in 2021 but the Bangladesh is still stuck in the havoc due to the new Covid Variant in Bangladesh strategy for companies in light of the Covid-19 business, providing quality, affordable clothing to 100
which scared off the US market resulting in a 14% order drop. This has raised concern among the manufac- pandemic, which derailed supply chains worldwide. million customers each year. With about 51,000
turers as there is no tentative time for recovery. If the situation of Covid-19 doesn’t rapidly improve, exports of Companies immediately realized the need for easy employees worldwide, our retail business
RMG may be down trend. access to fabrics and more significantly controlled encompasses 18 countries in Europe, Brazil, Mexico,
overproduction. and China. The brand has around 150 employees as a
According to OTEXA, US customers import $64.07 billion (6,407 crore) of clothing products in the year 2020. part of its sustainable team. In 2020, the brand used
In the first two months of 2021, US imports of clothing fell by 13,85 percent to $ 10,91 billion. In the first two The first denim jeans resulting from FIT will be 100% sustainable cotton for the manufacturing of
months of 2021 the export of Bangladeshi clothing to the United States dropped to 1 billion dollars (100 available in 2022. With over 1,400 stores in 18 different textile products. The purchased cotton was
crore) of clothing equivalent to Tk 85 billion (8500 crore). European countries and more than 25,000 either certified organic cotton or sourced as Better
employees, C&A is one of Europe’s leading fashion Cotton. C&A highlighted the better practices across
In January-February 2021, Vietnam’s exports to the US decreased by 12.9% to $2.09 billion. In January and retailers. C&A has set new standards in denim in the cotton industry by sourcing more sustainable
February 2021, India’s exports of clothing goods to the U.S. fell by 21.89% to 590 million dollars (59 crore). recent years. In 2018, the company developed the cotton and demonstrated that sourcing 100% more
world’s first jeans with Cradle to Cradle (C2C) sustainable cotton is possible.

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