Hurry...only 50 tickets left for 'Liverpool 2016'

If you want to attend our Liverpool 2016 trade event on 20 & 21 October, please be quick, as there are just 50 tickets left. This year's event will be extra special, as it marks our 175th anniversary. Registration closes on Friday 14 October.

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Protecting you against the cost of defaults

If you or your company is involved in enforcing arbitration awards, you know how difficult and expensive it can be. That's why we have created our own cover - ICA Mutual - exclusively for our members. With low set up costs and affordable premium levels, it provides legal expenses protection and access to a team of lawyers.

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Want to learn more about letters of credit?  

Tune in on 21 September to our new 'Letters of Credit 101: Beginner' webinar, when Trade Technologies’ Chip Thomas will take you through the basics and show you how letters of credit can accelerate cash flow and streamline trade. FREE to ICA members and just US$25 to non-members.

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Your safe trading update

Since the last issue, here are the awards that have been added to and removed from the ICA List of Unfulfilled Awards Part 1* (also known as the 'default list'): 

Additions:

• Libero Commodities SA, Switzerland (award dated 23 Oct 2015)
• Saad Musa Group, Bangladesh (award dated 3 Aug 2016)
• Zhengzhou Zhaoge Cotton Yarn Co Ltd, Henan Province, China (award dated 8 Jul 2016)

• Vinh Phuc Textile Company Ltd, Vinh Phuc Province, Vietnam (award dated 4 Aug 2010)
• Sri Kannapiran Mills Ltd, Coimbatore, India (award dated 18 Aug 2009)

Aussie labs pass the quality test

Congratulations to Auscott and ProClass (Goondiwindi). They are the latest labs to be certified under ICA Bremen's certification scheme. "This will give growers, merchants and end users of Australian cotton extra confidence that their product has been tested and graded to the highest possible international standard.”

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And in other global news

Some of the top stories that have made the headlines:
 

• Africa | Cotton made in Africa celebrates tenth anniversary
   
• Are your sheets ‘Egyptian Cotton’?
   
• Australia | Cotton tides are turning
   
• ICAC lifts cotton price hopes - even as futures lose a little buoyancy
   
• India | Dwindling cotton stock worries textile mills
   
• Pakistan | Cotton acreage drops 16pc
   
• Vietnam becomes largest supplier of cotton yarn to China, relegates India to second
   
• Why does my exercise clothing smell?
   
• Zimbabwe | Cotton industry on the verge of collapse?

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What is Newsreel?

Newsreel is our regular e-news alert. Designed to keep you up to date with everything that is happening at the ICA, Newsreel is aimed at anybody with an interest in the cotton trade. Please feel free to share it with your contacts.

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