Bo stressed the importance of further dialogues with the US and EU to solve the dispute.
Vice-Minister of Commerce Ma Xiuhong is in currently in the US to negotiate while Vice-Minister Gao Hucheng has just concluded a tour to the EU.
Although no details of Gao's negotiations were disclosed, an EU trade official told a group of Chinese reporters last week in Brussels that the consultation is very likely to produce an allowed annual growth rate for Chinese textile exports.
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson also said earlier the EU will not introduce a quota system.
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, said yesterday that it still hopes to reach an amicable deal with China to solve the current textile disputes.
"We still keep our willingness to seek an agreement with China on textiles," European Commission spokeswoman Claude Veron-Reville stated in Brussels.
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