US industry files petitions to limit textile and clothing imports from China
12 Jul '05
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US textile, apparel and fiber producing trade associations announced the filing of four safeguard petitions covering eight categories to limit the growth of US textile and apparel imports from China on Monday, July 11.
The industry also announced that it had refiled a petition on curtains on June 22 that the US government rejected for technical reasons on June 21.
The China Year to Date Increase for the shirt, skirt, and pajamas/nightwear categories was taken from US Office of Textiles and Apparel preliminary data on July 6, 2005. The data from these categories covers imports through the end of June 2005. The data for the swimwear and drapes/curtains covers imports through the end of April 2005.
Combined US imports in the 10 categories covered by the July 11 announcement totaled $6.4 billion in 2004, with imports from China accounting for $944 million.
The value of the Chinese imports covered by the petitions account for 5.3 percent of the $17.8 billion in textile and apparel imports from China and 1.05 percent of the $89.7 billion in imports from the world (including China) in 2004.
In terms of the $196.7 billion in US imports of all goods from China in 2004, these petitions affect only about 0.48 percent of that trade.
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