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News briefsEnve streamlines European distribution
Enve, part of Amer Sports since 2016, has announced an expansion of its partnership deal with Mohawk’s Cycle, its long-standing French distributor. Mohawk’s has now become the sole distribution partner for Enve throughout the European Union, except for Austria and Germany. Mohawk’s will manage inventory and distribution from Taverny in ...
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ArticleFair Wear and GoodWeave collaborate to fight child and forced labor
GoodWeave International, a global, non-profit initiative working to eliminate child labor in the carpet industry, and Fair Wear Foundation, an independent, non-profit organization working to improve conditions for garment factory workers, have joined forces to combat child and forced labor in hidden and informal parts of garment and textile supply ...
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ArticleRad Power Bikes withdraws from the European market
On July 10, Rad Power Bikes Inc. announced on its European website that it would withdraw completely from Europe and focus entirely on North America in the future: “We are sad to say goodbye.” This is a radical shift in course for the largest US B2C e-bike provider. According to ...
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News briefsEU unveils extended responsibility scheme for textile waste
The European Commission has unveiled its proposal to introduce a mandatory and harmonized Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme for textiles in all European Union (EU) Member States. This initiative would make producers responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products and support the sustainable management of textile waste across the ...
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News briefsNew CISUTAC consortium welcomes Lenzing, Decathlon and others
The newly founded consortium Circular and Sustainable Textile and Clothing (CISUTAC) already has 23 active members. Among them are Austrian fiber supplier Lenzing, Decathlon, the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (EURATEX), the Global Texile Scheme (GTS) and Oxfam. CISUTAC sets out to remove current bottlenecks along the textile supply chain ...
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News briefsSpinnova receives € 1.6m Business Finland grant for fiber research
The Finnish fiber company Spinnova has received a grant of a maximum of €1.6 million from the European Union’s NextGenerationEU financing and Finland’s Bio & Circular Finland sustainable growth program. The grant is to be used from October 2022 to the end of 2023. According to the company, the amount ...
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ArticleILO third-party monitoring report sees Uzbekistan free from systemic forced and child labor
The International Labor Organization (ILO) will release its third-party monitoring report on cotton farming in Uzbekistan end of March, 2022, with an encouraging result that was released in a pre-report: In the seven years since the reform process of the country’s cotton sector has begun, an estimated ...
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ArticleReduced VAT on bicycles and e-bikes soon possible in the EU
On Dec. 7, the Council of the EU reached an agreement on updated rules for VAT rates. Under the new rules, member states will be able to apply reduced VAT rates to the supply, rental and repair of bicycles - “including electric bicycles.” Conebi, the European umbrella organization for national ...
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ArticleILO adopts first code of practice on safety and health in the supply chains
To provide a practical basis for employers, workers and governments to work together to advance occupational safety and health (OSH) prevention culture in the textile, clothing, leather and footwear manufacturing, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has worked out a code of practice on safety and health in textiles, clothing, leather ...
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ArticleReal per capita consumption of private households continues to decline
In its first quarterly report of 2021 on private household consumption in the EU and Europe, the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) finds a 1.6 percent decline in average real per capita household consumption in the euro area, following a 2.6 percent drop in the fourth quarter of ...
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The EU continues to transfer personal data to the U.K.
The European Union is maintaining the transfer of personal data to the U.K. despite the fact that the country left the union, thanks to the adoption of two adequacy decisions for the U.K. The European Commission said that the U.K. has fully incorporated the principles, rights and obligations of the ...
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ArticleStudy shows cross-border online shopping habits of Europeans
Cross-Border Commerce Europe ( CBCommerce ), a Brussels-based platform promoting cross-border online commerce in Europe, has examined and evaluated the 16 strongest European countries in terms of both consumer behavior and business performance in cross-border online shopping that generated sales of €146 billion in 2020 (excluding the travel segment) in ...
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European Parliament to vote on Brexit deal April 27
On April 27, the European Parliament will vote on the post-Brexit trade deal agreed between the EU and the U.K., its spokesman, Jaume Duch, said on Twitter. EU lawmakers are expected to clear the deal, which faces an end-April deadline for approval and was backed last week by parliamentary committees. ...
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ArticleRecent studies show mixed picture of Covid-related shopping behavior
According to recent studies by the Association of Swiss Sports Retailers ( ASMAS ), based on credit card data from Worldline , along with the latest data from Mastercard , the outlook for brick-and-mortar retailers is moderately optimistic, albeit very mixed across the EU. In general, a slow return of ...
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Bait-Tech ensures uninterrupted distribution in the EU after Brexit
Bait-Tech, part of the Donald Cooke Group, has signed a licensing agreement with Pro Line Carp Products, a manufacturer in the Netherlands, to ensure an uninterrupted supply of its products throughout the EU in the post-Brexit times. Bait-Tech, a family-run business founded by Peter Clapperton, is a major U.K.-based exporter ...
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ArticleU.K. signs free trade agreements with Turkey and the EU
The U.K. and Turkey have signed tariff-free trading arrangements and are committed to reach a ”more ambitious” agreement in the future, according to the British Department for International Trade. The free trade agreement was signed by the U.K.’s International Trade Secretary, Liz Truss and Turkey’s Minister for Trade, Ruhsar Pekcan, ...
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Climbing brand Gramicci appoints distributor for U.K. and EU
Gramicci, a Californian climbing brand founded in 1982 by climber Mike Graham, is partnering with Wisdom and Effort (W&E) for sales, marketing and e-commerce of its products in the U.K. and the European Union. Fred Royle, the co-founder of W&E Distribution, said: “Our aim is to focus on what we ...
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ArticleU.K. reaches trade deal with Vietnam, agreement with EU unlikely
The U.K. has finalized a free trade agreement with Vietnam, which is scheduled to become effective from Jan. 1. It is the third trade agreement reached with an Asian country, after those with Singapore and Japan. The U.K. has also reached a preliminary trade agreement with Canada. The U.K. is ...
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ArticleAre we going to ski this winter? An Update
As previously reported , despite the German, Italian and French governments’ efforts to reach a uniform regulatory framework, there is still no joint European roadmap for the opening of ski resorts during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to Switzerland, Sweden, and Bulgaria, which refuse to restrict ski lift operations, the ...
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ArticleAre we going to ski this winter?
Europe is dividedWith the ski season approaching, a discussion about winter sports during the Corona crisis has flared up. Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wants to keep ski resorts closed at least until Jan. 10, 2021. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for a joint decision by the member ...
