EU BELARUS TEXTILE AND CLOTHING TRADE DEAL
December 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has negotiated another restrictive annual textile and clothing trade deal with Belarus, imposing tight quotas on a wide range of products that the proto-Soviet state can export to the European Union. These cover many clothing lines, including shirts, T shirts, and trousers for 2006, but the mere fact that the EU is imposing quotas puts Belarus in a small unlucky gang of non-World Trade Organisation (WTO) members who have restrictive access to the EU textiles market, also including North Korea and (oddly) Montenegro. The ...
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