21st March 2007

US Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Zoellick presented to the US Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees the Administration’s 2004 trade agenda. Highlights of his testimony and his responses...

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

To get CAFTA through, the US Administration allowed a number of changes to the agreement on Nicaraguan tariff preference levels (TPLs) and pocketings and linings. Pocketing and lining: the Central...

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

Clothesource will be presenting unique surveys at the MAGIC sourcing seminars organised by MAGIC during its exhibition from August 29-September 1 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company will...

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

The US announced meetings will be held in San Francisco with the Chinese government on August 16, in spite of its refusal to commit in advance to seeking a long-term...

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

America’s CITA has cancelled all requirements for visas, Electronic Visa Information System (ELVIS)transmissions, Guaranteed Access Level (GAL) certifications, and exempt certifications for textile and apparel exported from WTO members on...

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

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...