Unless cotton prices fall, many of the apparel retailers in the U.S. are expected to pass the increased cotton costs on to consumers in the form of higher retail prices.
It can be embedded into product labels, or sprayed on to cotton to mark its country of origin.
They built a thin layer, or "nanostructure, " using minute particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material and can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
This layer can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
Longer term, we believe margins will recover due to a combination of falling cotton prices and some costs being passed on to consumers.
This led owners to experiment with ways of increasing the pace of labor, Rosenthal explains, such as holding contests with small cash prizes for those who picked the most cotton, and then requiring the winners to pick that much cotton from there on out.
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That sounds conciliatory, but the Brazilians are still emphasising that negotiations would have to focus on cotton subsidies.
So, too, is cotton: it used to grow on big, disease-prone bushes in the parched north-east, and was hand-picked.
Because of the government subsidy system, US farmers can afford to sell their cotton on the international market at much lower prices.
There was confusion over India's recent ban on cotton exports when officials appeared to reverse the decision, but then said it would apply to new bales of the fibre.
The bail-out may not reach those on the verge of desperation, who tend to be bigger farmers taking gambles on cotton crops.
Meanwhile, a reusable cotton shopping bag will be launched on Wednesday to help promote the street market.
Consider the source of the suit: Walzel Jewelers, an authorized Rolex dealer in Houston that doesn't cotton to cut-rate competition on the web.
Western farm-support programs and cheap cotton dumped on the world market are impeding efforts to end Africa's cycle of poverty.
The rich, in other words, are the guys who can get money at ultra-low interest rates from the Fed (directly or indirectly) and use it to speculate on say, cotton (up almost 100% this year) or Chinese stocks.
Once a big exporter of maize, coffee and cotton, Angola now depends on the World Food Programme to keep its people alive.
On day two of the Forbes MEET conference, I pulled on a pair of white-yellow cotton pants to go with my white shirt and blue blazer.
Fortuna capped another flurry with a left that left Zamudio unconscious on the canvas, prompting referee Eddie Cotton to stop the fight at 1:08 without a count.
Even the return of Henry Cotton to the Great Britain side was not enough to prevent the Americans from winning the Ryder Cup on British soil for the first time.
Every year, U.S. taxpayers spend tens of millions of dollars on research to improve the nation's cotton industry.
Boarding for migrant laborers is usually free--often a spot on the farmer's veranda or in a shed with fertilizers or on a rooftop, next to the drying cotton.
In 2002 the Americans produced a bumper crop, and are forecast to sell 2.2 million tons of cotton on the international market.
New Lanark is an eighteenth century restored cotton mill village on the banks of the River Clyde, close to the Falls of Clyde in Southern Scotland.
The company suffered a massive decline of over 10% in gross margins last quarter due to higher production costs on account of rising cotton prices.
Comparing the number of cotton bales that different types of workers produced to similar workers on other farms, planters calculated the worth of each slave.
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They spread these films in alternate layers on top of sheets of cotton fabric and exposed the sandwich to ultraviolet light for 30 minutes to bond the layers covalently.
Chiles grew up on a plantation picking cotton for a white landowner, and going to segregated schools with her three sisters in the town of Itta Bena.
Liverpool, the loser, retaliated by charging enormous dock dues on Manchester's cotton imports, so Manchester built a ship canal to by-pass Liverpool.
Almost a year after floods devastated Pakistan, swamping 5.8 million acres of farmland and displacing millions of people, Ashaq Malik, who grows cotton, sugarcane and wheat on 865 acres in Punjab province, has reason to feel optimistic.
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