TAIWAN/CHINA

Keith NuthallTHE CANADIAN government has sought to dispel fears that it has unfairly retained trade restrictions on textile and clothing imports from China and Taiwan following last year's decision to allow them to join the World Trade Organisation. In two letters to the WTO's Textile Monitoring Bureau, Ottawa has claimed that remaining "quantitative restraints" comply with the two new members' accession deals and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. Meanwhile, the WTO has also been notified of additional outstanding textile trade restrictions against ...


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