DGTI issues China specific textiles safeguards circular

03 Sep '05

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The DirectorDirector-General of Trade and Industry of Hong Kong, Ms Charmaine LO has issued the following Commercial Information Circular No. 359/2005 on its website.

US : Announcement of China-specific Textiles Safeguards Decision :

(a) Category 349/649 (cotton and man-made fibre brassieres)
(b) Category 620 (Other synthetic filament)

Further to Commercial Information Circular (CIC) No. 291/2005 dated 2 August 2005, the US Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has decided to invoke safeguard actions on imports of Chinese-origin cotton and man-made fibre (mmf) brassieres and other body supporting garments (Category 349/649) and other synthetic filament fabric (Category 620).

An advance copy of the relevant Federal Register (FR) notice is at Annex B (pdf format).

According to the FR notice, the US Government requested consultations with the Mainland Government with respect to the above two categories of products on 31 August 2005 as it had determined that imports of Chinese-origin products in Categories 349/649 and 620 are, due to the existence of market disruption and the threat of market disruption, threatening to impede the orderly development of trade in these textile products.

As such, import quota limits were established from 31 August 2005 and will extend through 31 December 2005 at levels as follows:

Category 349/649: 7,275,216 dozen
Category 620: 12,328,306 square metres