China Faces New Textile Import Limits
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A top U.S. commerce official said he told China to expect American textile makers to seek new limits on Chinese imports as soon as next week, as he also urged Beijing to do more to stop piracy and lower trade barriers.
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WASHINGTON - On the eve of a presidential debate on domestic issues with employment a crucial concern, American textile companies and workers have asked President George W. Bush to help save their jobs by limiting Chinese imports, which may surge once a
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Chinese textile exporters have lashed out at the latest attempts by the US to restrict imports of textile and garment products. The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, an interagency group
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NEW YORK, December 31  - A US judge has temporarily barred the countryâs commerce department from imposing curbs on the import of textiles and clothing from China.
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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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BEIJING -- China said today that it will slap a tax on some of its textile exports in a nod to trading partners who fear that less expensive Chinese goods will flood their markets when global quotas on textiles expire next month. China will impose an export duty on certain, unspecified textile products, the English-language China Daily newspaper said, citing ...
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US manufacturing and labor groups are asking the Bush administration for import caps on almost $2 billion in clothing and fabric from China.
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China has agreed to place duties on certain textiles to placate fears that it will flood the world with low-cost products when textile quotas officially fall in three weeks, in response to pressure from the US and Europe.
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US officials visiting Beijing this weekend will press China to limit textile exports and crack down harder on piracy, reflecting pressure for trade concessions ahead of US elections in November, economists and trade lawyers said.
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The prospect that Chinese exports will soon overwhelm the worldwide clothing market was thrown into doubt yesterday after Beijing announced it will tax its shipments of textiles and apparel once the global market is liberalized Jan. 1.
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The US textile industry said yesterday that it is formally asking the Bush administration to cap China&#39;s shipments of trousers, shirts, sheets and other textile items to the United States, warning
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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 was &quot;shocked by, and strongly opposes&quot; the Turkish restriction on imports of 42 kinds of Chinese textile products, said Chong Quan, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce here on Sunday.
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Textile importers and retailers have sued the US Government to block a proposed limit on imports from China. Producers have asked for textile quotas because they say Chinese imports will damage the domestic industry.
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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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BEIJING, Dec. 13 -- Three years after China&#39;s entry into the World Trade Organization and the country&#39;s quality of textile exports continues to improve.
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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.