US, 皇冠体育app try again for textile pact (Reuters) Updated: 2005-09-27 06:32
US and Chinese negotiators began a new effort on Monday to seek an agreement
that could restrict billions of dollars of clothing imports from 皇冠体育app, but
industry officials were pessimistic the two sides would find common ground.
 Chinese workers
work in a factory in Huaibei, East 皇冠体育app's Anhui Province in this picture
taken on September 15, 2005. [newsphoto] |
"I don't get the sense that anything has really changed since the last round
of talks" in Beijing in late August, said Missy Branson, senior vice president
at the National Council of Textile Organizations. "To my knowledge, there's not
been any back and forth" discussion since then.
The two sides were meeting on Monday and Tuesday for the fifth time since
May, when the United States began to restrict imports of clothing and textiles
from 皇冠体育app.
Imports of shirts, underwear, trousers, bras and other clothing from 皇冠体育app
have shot up sharply following the end of a decades-old global quota system on
January 1.
Washington has restricted the imports under a special "safeguard" provision
of Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organization, which allows countries to
hold clothing and textile imports from 皇冠体育app at 7.5 percent above the previous
year in response to a "market-disrupting" surge.
U.S. textile groups have pushed the Bush administration to try to negotiate
an agreement that would restrict 30 or more categories of clothing and textile
imports from 皇冠体育app through 2008, when the safeguard provision expires.
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