CLOTHING SALES WILL BENEFIT FROM USA-SOUTH KOREA TRADE DEAL
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PREFERENTIAL access to USA clothing markets has been granted to South Korea manufacturers under a new free trade deal agreed between Washington and Seoul. American clothing and textile manufacturers will watch for any surge in South Korean exports, so they can invoke a special safeguard, allowing tariffs to protect US production if imports of particular lines proliferate.
PREFERENTIAL access to USA clothing markets has been granted to South Korea manufacturers under a new free trade deal agreed between Washington and Seoul. American clothing and textile manufacturers will watch for any surge in South Korean exports, so they can invoke a special safeguard, allowing tariffs to protect US production if imports of particular lines proliferate.
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