US TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY CALLS ON RE-ELECTED OBAMA TO PROTECT AGAINST VIETNAM IMPORTS
November 1st, 2012
BY ALAN OSBORN
Significant questions about the re-elected US Administration's readiness to stand up for American textile interests in the upcoming negotiations for expanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal are looming in the wake of President Barack Obama's re-election. Important decisions will be needed soon about the terms for including Vietnam in the TPP and its associated yarn forward rule of origin. Speaking to just-style, David Trumbull, vice-president, international trade, of the National Textile Association (NTA), the trade organisation ...
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