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ITMF to present awards for sustainability

For the first time, the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) will award‘ Sustainability and
Innovation’ and ‘International Cooperation’ in 2022. The international forum aims to support and promote
sustainable environmental, social, and economic production along the entire textile value chain. In the
Innovation & Sustainability category, ITMF will recognize sustainable and innovative achievements in the
textile industry, focusing on innovation, design, development, and production under the strictest sustainability
standards and respect for the environment.

Another important aspect in today’s complex world is the increased necessity to cooperate with different
partners from industry, research, and governments. Therefore, in the International Cooperation Objective,
ITMF will recognize progress in international collaboration in the textile industry according to the values of the
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. US Congress

The jury will grant these awards to companies/organizations or persons which/who significantly improved
textile manufacturing through international collaboration, ITMF said in a press release. The deadline for
applications is January 29, 2022. The winners will be invited to present their achievements at the ITMF Annual approves import ban
Conference 2022 in Davos, Switzerland.
bill targeting forced

Brandix wins the exporter of the year

award for the seventh time labour in China

A bill barring imports from China’s Xinjiang region unless US businesses can prove they were produced
without forced labour received final Congressional approval yesterday by US senators. The US
administration also announced fresh sanctions targeting several Chinese biotech and surveillance firms
and government entities for their actions in Xinjiang.

The Senate vote sends the bill to President Joe Biden. Press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden supported
the measure after months of the White House declining to take a public stand on an earlier version of the
legislation, a global newswire reported. The United States claims China is committing genocide in its
treatment of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang. China has denied all such claims. Raw cotton, gloves,
tomato products, silicon and viscose, fishing gear and a range of components in solar energy are among
the goods alleged by the United States to have been produced with the help of forced labour in Xinjiang.
Brandix has won the exporter of the year award Performing Exporter in Emerging Markets,' and the The textile industry's commitment to increase exports by $7.5 billion by the end of 2021-22 over the fiscal
consecutively for the seventh time in a row. Brandix, Sectoral Award for 'Best Exporter Award – Apparel –
Sri Lanka's apparel manufacture, is one of the largest Large Category.' year 2017-18 has become a reality. Thus, a price increase is not favorable, and therefore, APTMA has
apparel suppliers to top retail brands in the US and rejected a sudden hike in gas prices. APTMA has also talked with Pakistan Railways to upgrade cargo
Europe. With 50 years of experience in Apparel The Presidential Export Awards are the most movement services to facilitate the industry by reducing the cost of doing business to enable the
manufacturing in Sri Lanka, Brandix provides prestigious awards presented by the President to exporters to compete with the regional competitors. Railways, an essential component of economic
solutions to renowned brands across the world. exporters in recognition of their outstanding security, are being upgraded and fully automated with the most miniature human interface to offer the
contribution to the export sector and the country's best services to clients of Railways.
The award was given at the 25th Presidential Export economic development. The Awards for the year
Awards 2019/20 and 2020/21, organized by the 2019/20 and 2020/21 were presented in two main “Many companies have already taken steps to clean up their supply chains. And, frankly, they should
Export Development Board of Sri Lanka. Brandix's categories, with 12 overall awards and 53 sectoral have no concerns about this law,” Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who introduced the
other awards for this period include 'Contributor from awards for products and services for each financial earlier version of the legislation with Oregon Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, said in a statement.
the Regions to the Export Supply Chain,' 'Best year.
“For those who have not done that, they’ll no longer be able to continue to make Americans — every
one of us, frankly — unwitting accomplices in the atrocities, in the genocide,” Rubio said.

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