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Trade spats hem in 皇冠体育app garment makers
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-10-02 14:27
SHENZHEN, 皇冠体育app (Reuters) - While 皇冠体育app has been butting heads with Europe
and the United States over its garment exports this year, Sit Chat Keung has
been scratching his for ways to stay in business.
Textile products
are on display in a shop in Shanghai September 28, 2005.
[Reuters] | It hasn't been an easy
year for the Yimi Brassieres and Underwear Factory Co. Ltd., of which Sit is
general manager.
Business has been tested by "safeguard" measures the European Union and the
United States adopted to hold back the wave of Chinese clothing imports after
the abolition of a decades-old quota system on January 1.
Sit watched as some of the underwear and bras that his workers snip and sew
were suddenly placed on the restricted lists, and orders have been delayed. When
more than 80 million Chinese garments piled up at EU ports, barred from entry,
about 100,000 items from Sit's factory were among them.
"Nobody thought this would happen. Everyone thought things would work
according to the WTO rules," Sit said.
More than anything, the conflicts and confusion since January have forced
Chinese clothing exporters' to be nimble. Diversify has become the name of the
game.
This week, after Beijing and Washington failed in their third round of talks
to reach a comprehensive agreement on textile and garment trade for the coming
years, the industry looked set for more uncertainty.
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