21st March 2007
US-Morocco FTA Delayed Again.
The Morocco Times reported on June 30 that the US-Morocco FTA will not take effect on July 1 as planned. The agreement is now expected to come into force on...
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21st March 2007
US and EU political pressure
While America’s China Currency Coalition immediately called China’s move “woefully inadequate”, textile industry groups remained silent, though no US or EU trade association committed themselves to such outright condemnation. Meanwhile,...
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21st March 2007
CBP adding more textile transshipment personnel
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...
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21st March 2007
US, UAE make progress on FTA talks.
The US had a “very, very productive second round of negotiations” on a bilateral FTA with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in May, said lead US negotiator Catherine Novelli. She...
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21st March 2007
Safeguards hit four sectors
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...
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21st March 2007
CITA will delay China Safeguard overshipments
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has announced that overshipments of merchandise subject to any China textile safeguard quotas will be subject to delayed and staged entry.Specifically,...
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21st March 2007
Auditors claim need for improved Textile Safeguard procedures
On April 4, America’s Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report entitled “US-China Trade: Textile Safeguard Procedures Should be Improved.” The report states that procedural shortcomings have impaired effective application...
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20th March 2007
The currency issue
Although discussions in the EU and US about quota re-imposition have closely matched each other, Americans’ concern with China’s dollar-linked currency is far stronger than Europeans’. Perversely, China’s dollar linkage...
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20th March 2007
Product volumes affected by quota petitions
There are now quota investigations on practically all apparel categories where China has not already established a significant market share. Categories now under investigation, or currently subject to temporary quota,...
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20th March 2007
USA: PETA attacks Tommy Hilfiger for fur use
Animal rights activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have lashed out at fashion labels Tommy Hilfiger and Sean John for allegedly using fur obtained by skinning...
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20th March 2007
US Textile/Apparel industry still split on CAFTA
Washington observers continue to be unsure whether there will be in time in the next year for Congress to agree CAFTA, America’s free-trade treaty with five Central American countries and...
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20th March 2007
US safeguard measures stay stuck in court
The attempt by US textile industry groups to get quotas re-imposed on Chinese imports of a range of clothes remains stuck in the country’s legal system.In late December, hearings on...
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