China trouser makers fight US quotas
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US import limits on cotton trousers made in China would violate free trade principles, Chinese textile exporters told state media Monday.
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The US takes legal action against China over subsidies which it says breach World Trade Organization rules.
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China will impose tariffs on some textile exports in a move that may ease frictions with the United States and others over an expected flood of Chinese products on world markets after a global quota system expires at year's end.
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The US textile industry officials would plead for blocking Chinese imports to the Bush administration this month. Earlier this year, the White House had rejected a similar request made by 130 Republican and Democratic members of Congress.
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A coalition of US retailers including Liz Claiborne and JC Penney filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block the Commerce Department from imposing curbs on imports of textiles and clothing from China.
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TORONTO (CP) - The end of trade quotas under a 30-year-old treaty won't radically transform the flow of apparel exports and imports, the head of China's clothing industry said Thursday.
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China&#39;s trouser exporters are bracing themselves against the threat of a US trade war aimed at their products. US officials opened an investigation on Friday into whether Chinese trouser makers were pocketing an unfair share of the world market.
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China on Friday protested against US actions to impose quotas on textiles, saying the move violated World Trade Organization principles and would harm bilateral trade.
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U.S. imports of socks from China will be strictly limited next year, the Bush administration announced yesterday -- a decision that could herald similar action against other types of Chinese-made clothing that have the potential to dominate world markets.
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Textile importers and retailers are suing the US Government to stop a limit on imports from China.
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Geneva - The US yesterday appealed against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that government subsidies paid to the US cotton industry were illegal, trade sources said.
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Beijing - China said yesterday that it would impose a new tax on textile exports, responding to US and European pressure to limit them amid fears that low-cost Chinese textiles would flood markets abroad when global quotas expired next month.
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China is to put tariffs on textile exports to head off mounting concern that it could flood the market after quotas are abolished next year.
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Officials of the United States textile industry said that they would petition to block the expected flood of Chinese imports.
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China on Tuesday protested a U.S. decision to impose a quota on sock imports, warning it might take "further steps" under World Trade Organization rules to protect its own rights.
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HONG KONG Brushing aside Chinese warnings of a possible challenge at the World Trade Organization, a senior US trade official said here on Friday that the United States would limit apparel imports if American manufacturers provided evidence that such
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GENEVA : China called on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help small textile and clothing exporting countries that are threatened by the end of import quotas at the end of the year.