DOHA ROUND – US
February 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
THE UNITED States has offered several trading partners a complete elimination within five years of the tariffs it currently places on textile and apparel imports. US Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick announced the decision as part of its first offer for the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, a trading bloc of the western hemispheric countries (Cuba excluded). Zoellick says textiles and apparel are important to the smaller economies of the FTAA but the American Textile Manufacturers Institute's Cass Johnson says Zoellick is simply ...
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