US textile groups seek China quotas (China Daily): “US textile producers will ask the Bush administration to impose emergency import quotas on four categories of apparel from China, a textile industry official said on Wednesday.
The United States was required to eliminate import quotas on China in 29 different apparel categories when Beijing joined the World Trade Organization in late 2001.
But as a term of its entry, China also agreed to a “safeguard” provision that would allow the United States to temporarily reimpose quotas if imports surge dramatically.”
