EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS TOUGH ACTION DEFENDING EUROPE’S THREATENED TEXTILE AND CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS
December 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ACTIVE European Commission support and stubbornness in foreign trade talks is required to defend Europe's shaky clothing and textile sector against a flood of foreign imports, the European Parliament has said.
In a comprehensive policy statement, MEPs effectively said textile and clothing manufacturers should not be offered as sacrificial lambs to strike an agreement at the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha Development Round. These negotiations should reach their end game next year, and in a formal resolution, MEPs expressed "their ...
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