29th January 2008

Quotas will be replaced – for one year only - by a textile import "double checking system" that will track both the issuing of export licences in China and the...

21st March 2007

On October 4, the Global Alliance for Fair Textile Trade (GAFTT) called on WTO member countries to insist on a special textile/clothing agreement in the mid-December worldwide tariff reduction negotiations...

21st March 2007

China’s first reaction to the collapse of talks with the US was to hint at taking the US to the WTO’s appeals procedures. The official Xinhua news agency cited Mei...

21st March 2007

JC Penney has reportedly decided to accelerate its apparel-sourcing from India to $350 million a year in the next 3-5 years. India currently accounts for around $100 million of sourcing...

21st March 2007

The world’s governments added significantly in February to the indecision hanging over world apparel sourcing.Health control: Concerned about avian flu, on February 11, the US Department of Agriculture announced a...

21st March 2007

On 8 July, the labour union UNITE HERE Canada filed petitions with the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) against nine categories of apparel articles from China, claiming 2005 import growth...

21st March 2007

China announced it will scrap the export tariffs imposed on 17 Chinese-made textile goods subject to European Union's new trade restrictions as of August 1. The Customs Tariff Commission under...

21st March 2007

EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson flew to Shanghai on August 12 to meet his Chinese counterparts to discuss the quota breach by Chinese textile exporters. Mandelson said: 'We will manage...

21st March 2007

The EU re-affirmed its earlier position that shipments exported from WTO members in 2004 over the 2004 agreed quota limit will be allowed free entry into the EU from April...

21st March 2007

Shipments exported from WTO members in 2004 over the 2004 agreed quota limit will not be permitted US entry until February 1. Thereafter, 5% of the applicable 2004 base quota...

21st March 2007

There are still quotas limiting imports into the EU and US from some non-WTO members. However, most non-members are now such minor apparel producers that quotas have not been created...

21st March 2007

Meanwhile, the EU merely confirmed that quotas disappeared last night and announced agreements with Vietnam and Serbia, who are not WTO members, to remove quotas early in 2005. “There is...