TURKEY WTO CONCERNS
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TURKISH leather, clothing and textile producers have "come under intense imports pressure" following the third stage of liberalisation under the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, Turkey has claimed. A letter to the WTO Textiles Monitoring Body said these industries had already "been negatively affected" by quota liberalisation, prior to January 1's comprehensive liberalisation under the ATC.
TURKISH leather, clothing and textile producers have "come under intense imports pressure" following the third stage of liberalisation under the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, Turkey has claimed. A letter to the WTO Textiles Monitoring Body said these industries had already "been negatively affected" by quota liberalisation, prior to January 1's comprehensive liberalisation under the ATC.
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