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<title>April 2024</title>
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<description>The local cotton market on wednesday remained dull and the trading volume remained notably low. The Karachi Cotton Association closed the spot rate at $77.46 per maund on April,18 2024.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:42:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>March 2024</title>
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<description>The local cotton market on Wednesday remained easy and the trading volume remained low. The Karachi Cotton Association closed the spot rate at $77.09 USD per maund on March 14, 2024.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:40:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>February 2024</title>
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<description>The local cotton market on Wednesday remained stable and the trading volume was satisfactory. However, There has been a significant increase in New York cotton prices, impacting the domestic cotton market.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:38:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>January 2024</title>
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<description>In the local cotton market, the price of cotton remained steady and the business volume is relatively low. However, there is an increase shown in the prices compared to the previous month of December.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:26:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>December 2023</title>
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<description>In the local cotton market, the price of cotton remained stable due to low purchases by textile mills during the last week however there was witnessed stability in the rates of quality cotton.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:20:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>November 2023</title>
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<description>The local cotton market remained bearish and the trading volume was low. There is a slight increase in prices

compared to the previous month of October, as Karachi Cotton Association closed the spot rate by 60.76 $ per maund on 14th Nov 2023.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/november-2023.html</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:49:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>October 2023</title>
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<description>The local cotton market on Monday remained steady and trading volume was low.There is a major decrease in prices as  Karachi Cotton Association closed the spot rate by USD 58.16$ per maund on 17th Oct 2023.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:07:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>September 2023</title>
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<description>In the local cotton market trading volume remained stable and satisfactory. The Karachi Cotton Association closed the spot rate by USD 64.90$ per maund on 21th Sep 2023.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:52:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>August 2023</title>
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<description>In the local cotton market trading volume remained firm and excellent. The Karachi Cotton Association closed the spot rate by USD 61.02$ per maund on 17th August 2023.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:06:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>July 2023</title>
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<description>Trading volume remained satisfactory in the local cotton market. The Karachi Cotton Association closed spot rate by USD 62.33$ per maund on 11th july 2023.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/july-2023.html</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:49:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>ILO February 2023</title>
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<description>The ILO (International Labour Organization) founded in 1919, working for advance social and economic justice by setting international labor standards all over the world.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:46:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>June 2023</title>
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<description>The local cotton market remained bearish and the trading volume remained low. The Karachi Cotton Association closed spot rate by USD 71.36$ per maund on 16th june 2023.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/june-2023.html</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:45:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>May 2023</title>
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<description>The rate of cotton remained stable but Business volume; however, remained low. The Karachi Cotton Association closed spot rate by USD 70.24$ per maund on 16th May 2023. Moreover, according to the information received from the cotton producing areas, currently the cotton sowing is said to be satisfactory. Hopefully, if the weather conditions remained favourable, the cotton production is expected to increase.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 16:23:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>April 2023</title>
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<description>The rate of cotton remained stable amid improved business activities, though there was fluctuation in international cotton markets. The Karachi Cotton Association closed spot rate by USD 67.54$ per maund on 10 April 2023.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:04:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>March 2023</title>
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<description>The local cotton market remained bearish and the trading volume remained low. The Karachi Cotton Association closed spot rate by USD 70.21$ per maund on 16th March 2023. There is a major detoration particularly in
international cotton market resulted in a decline in cotton prices locally. Spinners are buying cotton very cautiously due to the upheaval in the textile sector while ginners are interested in selling.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:39:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>February 2023</title>
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<description>In the domestic cotton market, prices were overall stable and business volume remained good. The Karachi Cotton Association closed spot rate by USD 82.50 $ per maund on 15th Feb 2023.Demand and price of cotton yarn has started to improve to some extent.  After the talks with the IMF, the value of the US dollar has started to fall, due to which cotton prices have started to decline in the last two days.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/february-2023.html</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:35:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>January 2023</title>
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<description>Bullish trend prevailing in the local cotton market and the trading volume remain satisfactory, as the new year approaches, market condition begins to improve. The Karachi Cotton Association closed spot rate by USD 85.53$ per maund on 11th Jan 2023. There is an improvement seen after textile and spinning mills
began purchasing again.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/january-2023.html</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:22:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>December 2022</title>
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<description>In this year, after massive floods, the cotton crop output is expected to be around 6.5 million bales, whereas the demand is around 11 million bales, which means 5.5 million bales needs to be imported out of which 4.8 million bales contracts have already been signed. Currently, cotton rates being up and down between USD 75.64$ to USD 79.64$ per maund.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/december-2022.html</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:50:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>November</title>
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<description>Bullish trend prevailed in local cotton market under the influence of international cotton market. As the Karachi Cotton Association increased the spot rate by USD 0.90$ on 5th Nov per maund and closed it at USD 75.48$ per maund. The local cotton market remained bullish and the trading volume remained very low.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/november.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:02:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>Better Cotton Tex Story</title>
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<description>Matrix is constantly striving to participate in activities that promote global sustainability. We as a member of Better Cotton believes it is the common obligation for all associates of the organization to contribute in the transformation of better cotton farming.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/trending-today/better-cotton-tex-story.html</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 03:45:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>October</title>
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<description>Unprecedented decrease was seen in the rate of cotton in local and international markets, as the Karachi Cotton Association decreased the spot rate by USD 23.91$ per maund from 13-sep to 12-oct and closed it at USD 84.14$ per maund. The decline in cotton arrival is attributed to the flash floods in Pakistan, which devastated large swathes of agricultural land in the country. The local cotton market on remained steady and the trading volume remained low.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/october.html</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 03:42:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>September</title>
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<description>A significant increase of USD 11.66$ per maund was witnessed in the cotton spot rate. Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has asked for immediate lifting of ban on import as 2.5 million bales of cotton are urgently required for the textile export industry. Delay in cotton import can pose risk to timely deliver the export orders.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/september.html</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 02:52:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>A Serious Climate Catastrophe</title>
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<description>The Flood caused by the monsoon rains of 2022 have affected major areas of Pakistan which include, Balochistan, Sindh, Gligit-Baltistan, Punjab, Azad Jammu Kashmir, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK).</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/a-serious-climate-catastrophe.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:55:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>August 2022</title>
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<description>There is a major increase amid bullish trend in the cotton market. The rate of cotton drastically increased by USD 28.03$ per maund. The reason behind the major fluctuation in rate are due to torrential rains and flash floods, which are damaging  the cotton crops.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/august-2022.html</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:13:00 +0500</pubDate>
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<title>July 2022</title>
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<description>The Pakistan cotton crop is expected to effect due to heavy rains. A bearish trend continued in cotton market. The rate of cotton affected by rain reached at the lowest level of USD 66.84$ to USD 69.23$ per maund.</description>
<link>https://www.apparelco.com/blog/lastest-updates/july-2022.html</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:30:00 +0500</pubDate>
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