Thinking global, living local

A Textile SEZ Built to Re-Employ Mill Workers Has Shrunk 87% Since 2007

September 15, 2026

A Special Economic Zone built on the site of a shuttered textile mill, explicitly to re-employ the workers that closure displaced, has b...

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Tarpaulin Is a Genuine Export Win. Geotextiles for India's Highways Are the Opposite Story

August 15, 2026

India is the world's largest exporter of HDPE tarpaulin by shipment count, and its shade-net and mulch-film makers largely serve th...

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Airbags and Seat Belts Are Import-Heavy. Tyre Cord Isn't. India's Automotive Textiles Aren't One Story

August 15, 2026

Seat belt webbing and airbag fabric are two of the fastest-growing categories in India's automotive textiles, and both remain signi...

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Re-Spinning the Charkha

August 03, 2026

Dhirubhai Ambani built one company backward from cloth to crude to escape India's yarn-import bill. Sixty years on, ethanol blending is...

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Annexure: 314 HSN Codes Mapped to Technical-Textile Segments

August 03, 2026

Reference table for "From Fuel to Fibre" — every HSN code used in that article's segment analysis, grouped by segment, with e...

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Data-led analysis of India's trade, currency and industrial policy. Every article is built from primary official sources, and every figure links back to the release, table or filing it came from.

Sources. DGCI&S TradeStat (imports/exports, HSN-wise) · PIB (government press releases, January 2017 to today, refreshed daily) · RBI (circulars, balance of payments) · MoSPI (CPI/WPI, IIP) · PARIVESH (environmental clearances) · CCIL (bond yields) · BIS (policy rates) · SEBI, NSE/BSE and SEC filings for company data.

Interpretation. Figures carry their vintage and retrieval date; estimates and press-reported numbers are labelled as such; where sources disagree, both are shown. Corrections are made visibly, never silently. Articles are written with AI assistance from the cited sources — AI-generated text can misstate figures even when working from real material, so verify any number that matters to a decision against the linked primary source.

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