Quota Move on Garments Riles China
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The Ministry of Commerce filed a protest Thursday over the possible imposition of quotas in the United States on five categories of garment imports.
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Garment makers in poor countries have been dismayed over the upcoming abolition of trade quotas, but the outlook is not as bleak as many experts had thought.
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Eighteen days before the end of a 30 year-old system restricting international trade in textiles and apparel, the Bush administration is imposing new barriers on imported clothing.
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China will consider adopting measures to protect its interests and those of its trading partners once global textile quotas are scrapped at the end of this month, a government spokesman said on Friday.
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NEW YORK - US clothing sellers are suing the US government to force the government to stop imposing limits on Chinese textile imports.
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Press freedom groups voice dismay at moves by China to increase restrictions on foreign news agencies.
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The step could avert a trade war with the U.S. and the European Union over a new influx of low-cost Chinese garments.
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SHANGHAI, China -- In the mid-1800s, English textile makers eyed China and drooled over the fortunes to be made if every man in this teeming country added just one more inch to his shirttails.
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China has decided to impose duties on its exports of textiles and apparel, a move that could ease worldwide fears that Chinese clothing makers will soon dominate the global market after its liberalization on Jan. 1, according to a report in an authoritative Chinese newspaper.
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WASHINGTON Leaders of the US textile industry plan to petition the US government this month to block the flood of Chinese imports that is expected next year after global quotas on textiles and apparel are lifted.
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HONG KONG The Commerce Ministry in China plans to impose tariffs on some textile exports, a step that could avert a trade war with the United States and the European Union over a new influx of low-cost Chinese garments that had appeared likely to flood
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WASHINGTON - US textile and clothing manufacturers petitioned the Bush administration Tuesday to protect them against a surge of Chinese imports next year when worldwide quotas are removed, arguing that thousands of US jobs are at stake.
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Conspicuous by their silence, US retailers and apparel makers are waiting on the sidelines while domestic textile companies take what may be their last stabs at preserving limits on imports of garments made in China.
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US textile-trade groups said yesterday that they would pursue safeguards that target the threat of Chinese imports flooding the US market once quotas expire Jan. 1. The groups - the American
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BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China&#39;s likely emergence as the world&#39;s textile and garment superpower after 30 years of global quotas end Dec. 31 has spooked rival producers across
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The proposed rules are in response to the outcry over dangerous imports from China and other unsafe products.
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THE US and the EU are not backing the move by some least developed countries (LDCs) to stall the abolition of apparels&#39; export quota regime slated for January 1, next year.