U.S. Invokes Safeguard Rules Against Chinese Textile Products
The United States today announced that it will impose safeguard measures on imports of knit fabric, dressing gowns and robes from China. The safeguards are being imposed following a vote of the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) on petitions brought by the U.S. textile industry.
The safeguards are being imposed under a special provision of China's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession agreement that provides WTO members to impose temporary quotas on textile imports from China in the event those imports are found to cause "'market disruption." Under the WTO agreement the U.S. can limit Chinese shipments of these products at 7.5 percent above shipments over the past year.
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