21st March 2007

On February 9, US Customs released its latest list of companies convicted, penalized, and/or excluded from entry as a result of illegally transhipping textiles and textile products to the US....

21st March 2007

In a July 27 letter, one of several pledges made by the Bush Administration to secure support from textile state congressmen for the US-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA),...

21st March 2007

The United States has introduced trade concessions on July 1 for the tsunami-affected countries. But, as the concessions were amendments to America’s Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) and GSP does...

21st March 2007

With the expiry of bra/dressing gown China Safeguard quotas and the suspension of hearings into temporary quotas on trousers, shirts and underwear, the quotas announced in late October against Chinese...

21st March 2007

Before the Dec 30 injunction announcement, CITA published an official notice seeking comments by January 18, 2005, on requests to re-apply a safeguard action against imports of knit fabric (category...

21st March 2007

The US Court of International Trade held a hearing on December 20 to consider a request by the US Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (USA-ITA) to preliminarily prevent...

21st March 2007

Nigeria is the largest country in the world without an exporting apparel industry, and was admitted in July 2004 to eligibility under the apparel provisions of America’s AGOA scheme for...

21st March 2007

EU member countries have agreed a revised Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) programme. The new “GSP Plus” incentive system, giving at first Sri Lanka and a group of South American...

21st March 2007

America’s intended further 72 textile transhipment enforcement personnel are unlikely to be all in their jobs before the end of 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced in a letter...

21st March 2007

Leaders of the Kyrgyztan Light Industry Producers Association told journalists that clothing exports to Russia are being refused. According to association director, Sapar Asanov, Russian Customs officers in Novosibirsk and...

21st March 2007

The WTO reported that in second half of 2004, the number both of new antidumping (AD) investigations initiated and of AD duties applied continued, to fall, as in the first...

21st March 2007

May and early June saw a bewildering pace of change in trade regulation between China and the US/Europe, with US courts relaxing their ban on quota hearings, the US re-imposing...