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Panel 1: Tackling Raw Material Challenges
ICC Panel Discussions – Highlights and Commencing Global Trends ICC

At ICC 2023, panel discussions have their own very special spot and limelight. Being one of the key features of Along with discussing global challenges faced by brands, manufacturers, and retailers, panel 1 majorly focused
the conference, panelists from diverse textile backgrounds and sectors joined as one to discuss their opinions on the cotton trade and its rapid fluctuations. Inflation, commodity prices, and future threats to cotton held up
and core ideas in presentations and panel discussions. The esteemed panel members with their respective interesting sides and opinions for the audience. Xinjiang region is under the lens of its forced labor practices
opinions carried out a remarkable discussion covering all aspects at the Inspiring Change Conference 2023. and brands are distancing themselves from it. The impact on the demand for USA Cotton from Chinese cotton
buyers was also focused on by the panelists. Opinions were discussed on how these textile professionals foresee
the future of organic and value-added cotton. For this panel discussion, the following were the group participants:
• Khurram Iqbal. CEO. YS Group, Pakistan
• Steve Dyer. CCI President & Global Head of Marketing. Louis Dreyfus Company
• Wayne Boseman. President. Cotton Growers Cooperative
• Robin Pigot. Global Trading and Merchandizing. Cargill Cotton

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