US-EGYPT – WTO
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE UNITED States has requested formal consultations with Egypt at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over duties imposed by Cairo on some clothing and textile products in December 2001, the first stage of formal disputes proceedings. The row is over promises made in the WTO's 1990's Uruguay Round, where Egypt agreed to remove a general ban on the importation of apparel and made?up textile products by January 2002. It also agreed to bind duties for knitted and crocheted apparel and clothing at 46 per cent in 2003, 43 per cent in 2004 and 40 per ...
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