ECJ SAYS SORTING USED CLOTHES MAY NOT CONFER ORIGIN
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLUSED clothing handlers in the European Union (EU) will find it difficult to claim their sorting of old clothes for export to another EU country sufficiently changes the nature of these textile products to confer geographical origin. This follows a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case involving a German second-hand clothes handler Euro Tex Textilverwertung. It collected, sorted and packed used clothes in Germany exporting them Poland, when it enjoyed preferential EU trade relations ahead of becoming a member state. Euro Tex argued that its work ...
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