US-CHINA QUOTAS
November 1st, 2003
BY MONICA DOBIETHE UNITED States is to slap quota limits on imports of Chinese knitted fabrics, brassieres and dressing gowns, because it claims a surge in imports from China has disrupted its markets and could endanger US textile industry employment. During the first nine months of this year, shipments of Chinese knit fabric rose 32 per cent, synthetic-fibre bras 76 per cent, cotton bras 32 per cent, synthetic-fibre dressing gowns 58 per cent and cotton gowns 96 per cent, said the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition. As a result, temporary safeguard ...
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