Garments

by Cody Cepeda, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 21 Oct 2020 (First of two parts) The Philippine garment industry right now reflects the state of the global garment industry which had been ripped at the seams by the COVID-19 pandemic.

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 23 Sep 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Over 4,400 workers are being let go by garments firms operating in Cebu due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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MANILA, Philippines — The collapse of US apparel manufacturing has been good to Fely Curameng, a Filipina peasant-turned-factory boss. Through windows in her air-conditioned office, she looks out upon of an army of bent backs. A hive of workers on the factory floor hunch over automatic sewing machines. The staccato of needles firing thread into…

When Mark Twain learned about news reports claiming he had died, the American icon replied with the famous line: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. In like manner, representatives of the textile and garments industry have recently come together to state for the record that the industry may be struggling but it is…

One of the things the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is supposed to do is help local industries so they can hire more people and reduce the country’s unemployment rate. But we haven’t heard much about DTI’s efforts in this area.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario admitted that pushing for the passage in the United States Congress of a garments legislation that is favorable to the Philippines is a tough crusade but vowed to continue the fight for it relentlessly to ensure job generation and help revive the ailing textile sector in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will have to remove two to three sections of the “cut and sew” portion of the Save the Industries Act to reduce the waived duties of the United States to $200 million, a ranking government official said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines have agreed to water down the Save the Industries Act bill lodged before the US Congress by reducing the garment categories to nine instead of 17.

ASIDE from being the Director of the DTI Public Relations Office, I also head the Garments and Textile Industry Development Office (GTIDO) as its Executive Director. When I assumed office this year, it was right smack in the middle of a long-drawn out advocacy campaign for the SAVE Act which began in 2008. It is…

WASHINGTON – Support for Save Our Industries act among US legislators is growing and the measure, which seeks to allow Philippine-made apparel using US fabrics to enter the United States duty free, could be taken up by the US Congress in the coming months, said Philippine ambassador to Washington Jose Cuisia.

MANILA, Philippines — The domestic garment and textile industry has opposed a plan by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to transfer the function of Garment and Textile Industry Development Office (GTIDO), the agency which oversees the industry, to the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), the government’s export promotions arm, saying…

WASHINGTON – Sen. Daniel Inouye has refiled in the US Senate a bill which seeks to revive the dying textile industry in the Philippines and generate some 200,000 jobs while at the same time opening up the Asian market for American textile.

THE Save Our Industries Act, a bill in the US Congress that would enable the freer entry of Philippine-made garments into the highly lucrative US market, would be re-filed in the current 112th Congress after it was snubbed in the last legislative session.

MANILA, Philippines –  The move for SAVE Act to be passed in the US Congress is gaining momentum in key cities all over the US, the Garments and Textile Industries Development Office (GTIDO) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.

The lobby in support of the SAVE Act which is pending in the US Congress is gaining momentum in key cities all over the country.

MANILA, Philippines- The Garment and Textile Industry Development Office (GTIDO) is looking at creating a centralized database in order to help revive the local garments and textile industry.

The labor and employers sectors in the local garments and textile industry banded together, in an unprecedented move, to back the SAVE Act bill now pending in the US Congress. The passage of the bill is expected to generate jobs for workers who were displaced when the US stopped issuing quotas on garments imports in…

MANILA, Philippines – The government is preparing a five-year Garment Plan in an attempt to revive the ailing local garments industry by developing new markets like the European Union.

THURSDAY THANKS SINCE 2006, the garments and textile sector has been experiencing a steady decline in export growth until last year. In a data provided by NSO, the total Philippine exports in 2010 for wearables (garments and textile, fine and costume jewelry, bags, and footwear) amounted to $1,442,250 million with garments and textile accounting for…

MANILA, Philippines – The United States Trade Representative (USTR) office is doubtful that the Save the Industries Act, the bill touted to save the ailing Philippine garments industry, will be passed because the Philippines has labor and intellectual property rights issues, the Board of Investments (BOI) said.

MANILA, Philippines – U.S. authorities have raised labor and intellectual property rights issues of the Philippines as deterrents to an early passage of the proposed garments and textile bill “Save Our Industries Act”, which seeks to revive the textile and garments industries of both the U.S. and the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines –  US Senator John Ensign from Nevada has refiled the Save the Industries Act before the US Senate in a bid to help revive the local Philippine textile industry.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) believes it has a better chance of passing its proposed “Save our Industries Act” bill, which has been refiled in the US Congress recently, as the new bill presents a more comprehensive strategy to justify its passage.

THE GOVERNMENT could revive plans to establish economic zones for garment exporters as growing demand from China may spark a flurry of factory expansions, a Board of Investments (BoI) official said.

THE PHILIPPINES has to accept the fact that its benefits under a proposed trade scheme favoring its garment exports to the US will have to be cut if the measure is to have a better chance of getting approved by the new Congress there, government and private sector officials yesterday said.

Local garment makers will receive pointers from Chinese experts on penetrating the lucrative China market.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines may lose $5 million worth of investment for a denim facility if the US Congress decides to nix the Save the Industries Act.