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The global trade landscape is undergoing significant changes in 2025. The United States and India are close to finalizing the long-stalled bilateral trade agreement. The US side plans to significantly reduce tariffs on Indian goods from the current high of 50% to 15%-16%. This trade breakthrough spanning energy, agriculture and manufacturing not only directly points to the $500 billion trade target between the United States and India, but also hides the deep-seated game of global supply chain reconstruction, triggering a chain of speculations in the market about the trade triangle and industrial transfer among China, the United States and India.The core of the current trade negotiations between the United States and India is a precise two-way concession.The key highlight is the significant reduction in tariffs. The United States will abolish the 25% punitive tariff and the 25% equivalent tariff on Indian oil purchases from Russia, reducing the overall tariff rate to the range of 15% to 16%, covering India's advantageous export sectors such as textiles, gemstones, leather, and construction machinery. This will directly relieve the pressure of India's exports to the United States having declined for four consecutive months - data shows that India's exports to the United States dropped from a peak of 8.8 billion US dollars in May to 5.5 billion US dollars in September, evaporating 3.3 billion US dollars in three months.India has offered a key bargaining chip in exchange for tariff reduction. It has promised to gradually cut down on Russian oil imports, and its state-owned oil refiners and Reliance Industries have begun to shift their procurement to the Middle East. Meanwhile, India will ease the import restrictions on non-GMO US corn and soybean meal, opening up a market worth hundreds of billions for US agricultural products.Both sides plan to establish a regular review mechanism for tariff levels and market access to build a long-term framework for subsequent trade cooperation. The advancement of the US-India trade agreement is essentially a dual game of political will and market rules, and its influence has radiated to major economies around the world.The United States has reaped multiple benefits. It has not only expanded its export channels for energy and agricultural products, easing domestic industrial pressure, but also deepened its economic influence on India through trade ties, paving the way for the implementation of the "Indo-Pacific Economic Alliance". More importantly, by leveraging India's cheap labor force, the United States is attempting to build a supply chain backup for "China substitution".

The 11th China International Silk Conference was held in Shengze on November 7th, 2025. This conference, themed "Future Silk - Intelligence, Health and Sustainability", brings together industry elites and experts from home and abroad to jointly explore the cutting-edge development trends in the industry such as intelligent manufacturing, health functions, and green low-carbon, leading the silk textile industry towards a higher quality, more resilient and more sustainable future. Qian Youqing, the Party branch secretary and supervisor of the China National Silk Association, Xing Jijun, the former director-level science and technology counselor of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York, Shen Mingrong, the deputy secretary of the Party Committee and vice president of Soochow University, Yang Aiping, the deputy secretary-general of the China National Silk Association, and Chen Yu, the Party Secretary of Shengze Town, attended the opening ceremony of the conference.Qian Youqing said in his speech that Shengze, as a thousand-year-old silk capital, carries the profound cultural heritage and vibrant industrial base of Chinese silk. Keeping pace with the new era and playing a better role in the process of striving to achieve socialist modernization is an important issue that the contemporary silk industry must seriously consider. It is hoped that in the future, the silk industry will persist in applying modern technologies, comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of the silk industry, continuously exert efforts in strengthening basic research and enhancing original innovation capabilities, and rely on the technological advantages of universities and research institutions, as well as the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial transformation. Be able to adhere to the concept of sustainable development, consolidate the industrial foundation, continuously carry out silk innovation and promote green production technologies, focus on the upgrading of health demands, and further enhance the competitiveness of silk in related application fields. Be capable of promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent in the silk industry in a coordinated manner, place the cultivation of silk talents in an important strategic position for development, build a number of internship bases and enterprise colleges based on the industry, and achieve precise matching of educational supply with scientific and technological innovation and talent demand. The China National Silk Association will continue to play the role of a bridge and link, fully support the in-depth integration of industry, academia and research, and contribute to the high-quality development of the industry.Shen Mingrong said in his speech that Soochow University has established a complete innovation chain from fiber design to high-end product manufacturing. Relying on the "National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk", it focuses on the "bottleneck" problems in the industry and uses science and technology to empower the silk industry to continuously innovate and upgrade. Shengze is an ancient silk capital known for its daily production of tens of thousands of silk fabrics and its clothing and bedding covering the world. It is now a fashion capital with a complete modern textile industrial cluster and a close and sincere partner of Soochow University. At present, the silk industry is standing at a new crossroads. It is not only about cultural inheritance but also faces issues such as green environmental protection, intelligent manufacturing, and brand building. Soochow University will fully leverage its multi-disciplinary advantages and work together with experts, scholars, and entrepreneurs to jointly explore new paths for the high-quality development of the silk industry. We look forward to this conference serving as a bond Further deepen the collaborative innovation of "university - industry - region", transform wisdom into technology and technology into products, and let the new silk shine with new luster in the new era.In his speech, Chen Yu said that Shengze is a major silk town in the heart of the Yangtze River Delta. It not only carries the thousand-year-old memory of "co-breeding sericulture and the sound of looms", but also continues to write the era's glorious chapter of "a hundred-billion-yuan industry, a hundred-billion-yuan market and a hundred-billion-yuan enterprise". It has a three-dimensional transportation network of water, land, air and rail, and ranks fifth among China's top 100 towns and sixth among China's top 1,000 towns. Shengze adheres to innovation-driven development, promoting the modernization and upgrading of traditional silk reeling techniques. It has achieved comprehensive coverage of intelligent weaving and digital printing and dyeing, and has innovatively broken through the cross-border application of silk protein in fields such as medical care and health preservation, and flexible electronics. We are grateful to the China National Silk Association for its long-term guidance and support to Shengze, as well as to Soochow University for its intellectual empowerment and in-depth collaboration among industry, academia and research. Shengze will continue to unswervingly focus on the silk textile industry, persistently promote industrial transformation and upgrading, and enable "Shengze Weaving" to go further and spread wider along the new era Silk Road.After the opening ceremony, experts and scholars from home and abroad delivered keynote speeches on special topics, and various sub-forums shared themes related to the silk industry.