{ "id": "RL32168", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "number": "RL32168", "active": false, "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department, EveryCRSReport.com", "versions": [ { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc815045/", "id": "RL32168_2006Jun30", "date": "2006-06-30", "retrieved": "2016-03-19T13:57:26", "title": "Safeguards on Textile and Apparel Imports from China", "summary": null, "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20060630_RL32168_3a2354b6f552dcd9e533353cc989e9be32770f86.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20060630_RL32168_3a2354b6f552dcd9e533353cc989e9be32770f86.html" } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 310140, "date": "2005-11-22", "retrieved": "2016-04-07T19:26:50.507029", "title": "Safeguards on Textile and Apparel Imports from China", "summary": "Textile and apparel import data issued in June 2006 indicated that from January-April 2006, the\nvolume of U.S. imports from China grew by 4.84% compared to the same time period in 2005. The\nvolume of U.S. imports from the world grew by 1.06% during the period.\n U.S. textile and apparel production has been steadily declining, and imports from all countries\nhave been increasing. However, U.S. imports from China have been growing at a much faster rate. \nThe expiration of textile and apparel quotas on January 1, 2005, led to U.S. industry concerns that\nChinese imports will capture the domestic market share in many product categories. Many\ndeveloping nations that received access to U.S. and other developed country markets through the\nquota regime are also concerned that the end of quotas will lead to a global consolidation of textile\nand apparel production in which only a few nations, including China, India, and Pakistan, will\nbenefit. In contrast, retailers and other importers of textiles and apparel have long opposed quotas\nbecause they believe that they cause market inefficiencies that result in higher prices to U.S.\nconsumers than would otherwise be the case. \n A textile-specific safeguard measure in China's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession\nagreement allows the United States and other Member countries to impose import quotas on textile\nand apparel imports from China if they determine that Chinese-origin imports of the targeted\nproducts are causing \"market disruption.\" Between December 2003 and late October 2005, the\nCommittee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) formally requested consultations\nwith China -- and simultaneously implemented quotas -- on cotton knit shirts and blouses\n(Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) categories 338/338); cotton trousers (categories 347/348); cotton\nand man-made fiber underwear (categories 352/652); cotton yarn (category 301); men's and boys\ncotton and man-made fiber shirts, not knit (categories 340/640); man-made fiber knit shirts and\nblouses (categories 638/639); and man-made fiber trousers (category 647/648). U.S. producers\nvowed to continue filing safeguard petitions with the hope of pushing forward a more comprehensive\nagreement establishing quantitative limits on Chinese imports.\n On November 8, 2005, then-U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Rob Portman and Chinese\nCommerce Minister Bo Xilai announced that the United States and China have signed a three-year\npact limiting China's exports of 34 textile and apparel products until 2008. The agreement was very\nsimilar to a June 10, 2005 agreement the European Union reached with China. U.S. producers\nexpressed satisfaction over the measure, while U.S. importers and retailers, were displeased over the\nlimits that the agreement imposed. \n Some domestic producers are currently expressing concern that Chinese producers are currently\nshipping textile and apparel goods to a second country, such as Indonesia, en-route to the United\nStates (transshipment) for the purpose of circumventing the limits set forth in the U.S.-China\nagreement. 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