WTO ROUND TO SLASH – EVEN REMOVE – TEXTILE AND CLOTHING IMPORT DUTIES WORLDWIDE
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING and textile exporters may have thought they had heard the last word from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after the expiry of its Agreement on Textiles and Clothing in 2005 and with it, the end of restrictive quotas for clothes and cloth traded between the 151 WTO members. But that is not so. The WTO's seven-year-old Doha Development Round is planning the final phase of its negotiations, which would slash many import duties on clothing and textiles traded worldwide and maybe eliminate some altogether.
That is the ambition of the ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.