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Last week, Aquiles Bermudez the chairman of ADOZONA indicated that the Dominica exports have increased in recent 3 years, while the industries and factories face both great opportunities and risks brought by the DR-CAFTS and TPP.

CAFTA, short for Central America Free Trade Agreement, is signed to promote the business relationship among Central American countries and the USA. According to the agreement, exports to America should follow the Rules of Origin. That is, only goods that are originally manufactured in these participating countries would exempt from customs duty when exported to America. Therefore, the DR-CAFTA is good for increasing Dominican exports in the USA.

The trade deficit of Dominica with the USA has been dramatically decreased from 1.611 billion in 2012 to 1.363 billion in 2013 by 15.4%.

Dominican Commerce and Industry Minister Jose Del Castillo said that, DR-CAFTA focuses on not only the international trade deficits of commodities, but also the other aspects such as service line, investments, government procurement, telecom, insurance, e-commerce, labor and environmental protection etc. This is beneficial for the development of Dominican economy.

Jose Del Castillo also states that the Short Supply List of Textile Goods in Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is good for its member state Vietnam and thus brings negative influence to Dominica. It is estimated that Vietnam would purchase raw materials of textile from other Asian countries and sell it to American after processing production. While at the same time, Dominica textile exports to the USA would be greatly weakened due to the Rules of Origin.

It is suggested that, America should provide the same treatment to the member states of TPP and DR-CAFTA. Countries in Central America and Caribbean must spend more time to do adjustment so that they can decrease the adverse impact of the tariff reduction and exemption enjoyed by TPP member countries.

In 2015, it is urgent for Dominica to improve its international competitiveness and encourage the exporters upgrade their goods and construction. The effective utilization of DR-CAFTA will greatly promote the economy of Dominica and reduce the bad influence brought by TPP to some extent.

There are two common methods being widely utilized for dyeing textiles. The first one is normal dyeing method. Textiles are dyed by using chemical dye directly. The second one is using paints. Firstly, paints are processed into tiny insoluble colored particles. Then colored particles attach to textiles.

Dyes are complicated organic materials. They have various categories.
Acid dye: Acid dye is commonly utilized for protein fiber, nylon fiber, silk, etc. Characteristics of acid dye include various colors and excellent dry cleaning fastness while acid dye has poor washing fastness.

Cationic dye (basic dye): Cationic dye is used for acrylic fiber, polyester fiber, nylon, cellulose, protein fiber. Cationic dye has various colors. It is quit suitable for artificial fiber. But cationic dye has poor washing fastness and light fastness when it is used for cellulose and protein fiber.

Direct dye: Direct dye is suitable for cellulose. Direct dye has poor washing fastness. Washing fastness will be improved largely if direct dye is modified.

Disperse dye: Disperse dye is suitable for rayon, acrylic fiber, nylon, polyester, etc. It has different washing fastness. It has good washing fastness when being used for polyester, while it has poor washing fastness when being used for rayon.

Azo dye: Azo dye is used for cellulose. It has various colors.

Reactive dye: Reactive dye is commonly utilized for cellulose instead of protein fiber. It has various colors, good light fastness and washing fastness, rubbing fastness.

Sulfur dye: Sulfur dye is used for cellulose. It has grey colors, including dark blue, black and brown. Sulfur dye has good light fastness and washing fastness, poor chlorine bleaching fastness. Textiles can be broken by sulfur dye when textiles are stored for a long term.

Vat dye: Vat dye is suitable for cellulose. It has good light fastness, washing fastness.

Paint: Paint can be used for all of fibers. Paint is not a kind of dyes. Paint is a kind of attachment fibers which are made of resin. Using paint, deep color texture will harden. So it is only suitable for light color textiles. Paint has good light fastness and washing fastness.

Located in Foshan, Guangdong, Zhangcha Street forms an important part of Guangzhou-foshan Economic Zone. On June 17, 2014, Committee of Finance, Light industry, Textile and Tobacco held an investigation on the work of Textile Industry Association at the Zhangcha Street.

It is said that Zhangcha is striving to develop the knitting industry through the participation of eight projects in the China-International Knitting Exposition. Hu Anquan, the secretary of the Party Working Committee of Zhangcha Street, said that Zhangcha is fighting to lead the development of China’s textile industry.

The survey included forums and site visit. During the process, Jiang Weideng, the chairman of Zhangcha’s Chamber of Commerce introduced the current situation of textile industry in this region.

At present, Zhangcha boasts of more than 10 knitting industrial zones that contain 3,000 knitting enterprises which covering over 6,000 thousand square meters factories, 30 thousand workers was employed here. 25 thousand knitting machines can totally produce fabric as much as 3,000 thousand tons every year. Zhangcha is now the biggest production base of knitting industry in Aisa, or even the whole world. Sales of 30 billion are made annually.

During the visit, the vice-president of committee said,”The textile industry of Zhangcha is going on a special, and yet efficient developing course. It is good for companies in this region to go out and face the world in huddle. The future is promising.”

Colorful cotton fiber
Natural colorful cotton fiber is new cotton cultivated by using genetic engineering technology. The cotton is implanted with other genes so that have different colors. Cloth or textile made of colorful cotton fiber has unique style, quaint and elegant colors without being dyed. The color even is the same as before when textiles have been washed for several times. Otherwise, colorful cotton fiber cannot cause pollution to environment and has influence on health, realizing zero pollution during producing. Colorful cotton fiber is ideal raw materials for underclothes, infants clothing and beddings.

Multicolored silk
Currently, with development of sciences silkworm can spin multicolored silk for mutation happening in silkworm without dying. The silk conforms to the trend of returning to nature for its pure and natural colors.

Colorful sheep wool
In recent years, colorful sheep wool has appeared. Scientists feed sheep with trace metal elements so that can change the color of wool. For example, feeding with iron iron element, color of wool will change into light red. At present, red wool, sky blue wool, golden wool and brown wool have been cultivated.

Colorful rabbit hair
Colorful rabbit is a new type rabbit. In developed countries, colorful rabbit is treated as pets. The U.S. has the most colorful rabbits. They are also fed in China. Textiles made of colorful rabbit hair have various colors without being dyed.

Optim fiber
Optim fiber is made of wool whose structure has been regulated by using physical technology based on physical characteristics of wool. Under particular conditions, use physical technology to draw wool so that fineness of wool can reduced by 3μm. The fineness of wool after being processed is higher than common wool and the length is longer than cashmere by 3-4times. Optim fiber has become new type fiber which has characteristics of cashmere. However, cashmere goats can cause damage to vegetation and ecological environment. So cashmere goats cannot be fed largely. Developing optim fiber can replace of wool to meet the demands of wool in market without damage to environment.

How to promote a rapid and efficient development of knitting machinery? This is always a popular topic in the textile field. The continually expansion of needs in knitting apparel at home and abroad lead to the great development of knitting clothing industry. As a result, the Knitting machinery industry ushers in a new growth stage.

The entry of WTO has brought both opportunity and risk for China’s industries. For one side, the exports have increased a lot due to the remove of trade barriers in knitting goods. This fact contributes to the improvement of knitting industry, including the knitting machinery. While on the other side, capital and goods have been poured into China and intensified the competition in the knitting field. On this occasion, some knitting machine companies devote themselves to upgrade the quality of knitted fabric and productivity of machinery.

On June 14th 2014, Lin Guangxing, the vice chairman of Chinese Knitting Industry was interviewed on the development of this field. He said, “Warp knitting machine and circular knitting machine are the most common style. The conventional machines can now produce high quality fabric, while the application of electronic jacquard machine, electronic control machine and forming weaving machine also reach the international level. What’s more, the intelligent flat knitting machines result in high technology such as intarsia-knit and deep-textured jacquard.”

With unremitting efforts on creative design, it is possible to achieve a favorable and promising future. In this process, it should be noted that to promote environment-friendly and less noise is also an important aspect for a good knitting machine company.