- cover $307.55 million in textile and apparel imports from China.
With approval of the safeguards, the growth of Chinese exports to the United States will be limited to 7.5 percent when China receives an official diplomatic cable requesting consultation on this matter from the US government.
The United States and China then have 90 days to consult and try to reach an agreement on limiting the growth of Chinese exports to the United States in these categories. If no agreement is reached, the United States can maintain the 7.5 percent growth limit through the end of calendar year 2005.
The US right to impose safeguards on textile and clothing imports from China is contained in Paragraph 242 of the Report of the Working Party on the Accession of China to the WTO.
In 1995, the WTO began implementing a ten-year phaseout of worldwide quotas on textile and apparel products. When China joined the WTO in 2002, it was allowed to join the quota phaseout in lockstep, giving it a three-year transition period compared to ten years for the rest of the world. China agreed to be subject to textile and clothing safeguards through the end of 2008 in return for receiving the reduced transition period.
Since January 2001, US textile and apparel manufacturing employment has fallen from 1,047,200 to 657,800 - a loss of 389,400 jobs (37 percent of total employment in the industry).
(Category 620 - Other Synthetic Filament Fabric). Synthetic filament fabric is used in everyday products ranging from pants and dresses to sophisticated automotive, upholstery, and industrial fabrics
The American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition's (AMTAC) mission is to preserve and create American manufacturing jobs through the establishment of trade policy and other measures necessary for the US manufacturing sector to stabilize and grow.
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