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Australian wool industry under pressure from retailers

05/03/2012
The Australian wool industry is under renewed pressure from European and North American textile and clothing retail industry associations, which would like to see the practice of mulesing outlawed.

A new position paper has been put forward by sixteen organisations, including the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), The Association of European Fashion Retailers (AEDT), British Retail Consortium (BRC), Canadian Apparel Federation (CAF), Foreign Trade Association (FTA), National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical (NICE) among others.

The industry group said “wool apparel retailers and brands in North America and Europe reaffirm their goal that the Australian wool industry expeditiously identify and adopt viable alternatives to surgical mulesing. We encourage the Australian wool industry and the Australian federal and state governments to devote to these efforts a portion of any additional financial resources derived from the current high price of wool.”

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