AMTAC, NCTO, NTA appreciate Govt stance in failed Sino-US textile talks
01 Sep '05
4 min read
Reacting to the fact that China and the United States failed to reach a comprehensive textile agreement in a fourth round of talks this week in Beijing, the textile industry expressed its appreciation to the US government for standing firm on issues of critical importance to domestic manufacturers and their workers.
National Council of Textiles Organization (NCTO) President Cass Johnson said, "We are disappointed that the Chinese government is not yet willing to negotiate seriously to resolve the dispute over textiles. Over the past month, the industry has withheld filing additional safeguard cases in the hopes that China would come to the table and negotiate an agreement allowing China to grow its exports into the US market while preventing the wholesale loss of US textile jobs. Because imports from China continue to flood the US market in sensitive categories, the U.S. industry now will be filing additional safeguard petitions shortly."
Karl Spilhaus, president of the National Textile Association (NTA), also present in Beijing for this round of the negotiations said, "NTA is pleased with our government's strong stand to resolve the dispute on favorable terms. The domestic US textile industry is united in affirming that no agreement is better than a bad agreement on the critical issue of ongoing textile trade with China."
American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) Executive Director, Auggie Tantillo, continued, "The industry is appreciative of the US government's effective use of the China textile safeguard mechanism. We intend to be as aggressive in the future as we have been in the past. We encourage the US to move forward in implementing the cases with final decisions pending by close of business today (August 31st). The proper use of the safeguard is necessary to offset China's unfair trade practices that have caused substantial job loss in the US textile sector."
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