SOUTH AFRICA AND CHINA AGREE CLOTHING AND TEXTILE TRADE RESTRICTION DEAL
June 1st, 2006
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
SOUTH Africa and China have entered into a textile and clothing agreement to limit the flood of Chinese imports into Africa's biggest clothing manufacturing centre.
Initialled during an official visit to South Africa by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, it offers a lifeline to the beleaguered South African textile industry, which has shed jobs and factories because of a surge in cheap Chinese imports.
"The deal will provide a temporary respite for the local industry to allow it to complete its restructuring and refocus its ...
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