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The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has lifted its ban on Indian garment exporter Natchi Apparel Pvt Ltd, which supplied to H&M, among others. The ban was lifted after the company provided evidence that forced labour at its factory had been eliminated.

A partnership between educational institutions in the US and Honduras will facilitate the continued reshoring of textile and apparel production to the US and Central America. A texfash.com report.

Stephen Mayfield is a distinguished professor of Biology at UC San Diego. Tom Cooke came with decades of experience in product development. Together, they created at Bluewear Footwear the world's first biodegradable pair of shoes made from plant-based fabrics and oils that decompose fully. A riveting interview with texfash.com.

Scientists at the Northwestern University in the US have identified how to destroy "forever chemicals" in a low-cost way for the first time. They have linked exposure to the substances, known as PFAS, at certain levels to serious health risks, including cancer and birth defects. This has major implications for the fashion industry, which has been slow in eliminating PFAS.

The Walmart Foundation announced it has provided a $2,000,000, three-year grant to the Soil Health Institute's (SHI) U.S. Regenerative Cotton Fund (USRCF) to scale activities of the project and expand the initiative to Alabama and South Carolina.

An American company has been slapped a $157,683.37 penalty for deceiving consumers about the country of origin of their products.

The textile trends of tomorrow were what about 1,900 fashion and textile enthusiasts, 98 exhibitors from 19 countries got to see at the recently concluded Première Vision New York (PVNY), the major sourcing hub for the North American market, according to the official post-event report.

Ethiopia's showcase textile project—Hawassa Industrial Park—is facing huge job losses in the wake of factory closures following the US announcement that the former would no longer benefit from the African Growth and Opportunity Act's (AGOA) duty-free access to its markets from 1 January this year.

The Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change (FABRIC) Act of 2022 that addresses issues in apparel manufacturing industry such as exploitation of essential workers, offshoring, and an ageing workforce, was introduced in the US House on 21 July.

The challenging times not withstanding for US fashion companies coming from the macro-economy in 2022, particularly inflation and rising cost pressures, optimism rules, says the just released Benchmarking Survey by the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA).