David Trumbull, Vice President, international trade, National Textile Association, has been invited by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce to speak on November 1, 2011 at the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) in Guangzhou, China. While in China Mr. Trumbull is scheduled to visit three textile manufacturing facilities.

The National Textile Association is the nation's oldest and largest association of fabric-forming companies. Our members knit and weave fabric in the U.S.; supply fibers, yarns to the fabric-forming industry; or supply other materials or services to the American textile industry.

China Import and Export Fair is also renowned as the Canton Fair. It is held biannually in Guangzhou every spring and autumn, with a history of 53 years since 1957. The Fair is a comprehensive one with the longest history, the highest level, the largest scale, the most complete in exhibit variety, the broadest distribution of overseas buyers and the greatest business turnover in China.