CHINA EXPORTERS WIN SA CLOTHING TRADE BATTLE
September 1st, 2006
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
CHINESE exporters have emerged as winners in an ugly spat between South Africa's retail industry, the Pretoria government and local unions over quota limits on China-made clothes and textile imports.
Chinese exporters will now be able to sell a full range of clothes and textiles to South Africa until January 1, 2007, avoiding a quota system which was due to go into effect on September 28.
The South African government decision's to delay the imposition of quotas comes after an outcry from leaders retailers who warned that ...
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