Home Textiles Today - July 8, 2002

With American buyer traffic off because of U.S. government advisories cautioning against travel to India, the India Trade Promotion Organisation will organize travel to the U.S. market for its home textiles manufacturers. "Times are bad — we accept that. Yet [the United States] is still the largest market for our products.

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