In accordance with the provisions of the accession to the WTO, the New Year's Day of this year, the United States and the European Union has officially canceled the Chinese textile quotas, thus, both faces flocked to the pressure of high-quality low-cost textile products, textile manufacturers in the United States have asked the Government to restrict imports Chinese products at the same time, the EU also consider reducing the import of Chinese textiles. They are two Chinese textile export market restrictions formal operation, China's textile industry will hit. U.S. textile and apparel manufacturers has asked the Government to take immediate safeguard measures to restrict the growth of Chinese textile and apparel exports to the U.S.. The person in charge of the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition and the National Council of Textile Organizations said in a statement the same day, due to the elimination of textile quotas, since the beginning of this year, China's textile and apparel in the U.S. market a substantial increase, the U.S. industry has to suffer, at least seven enterprises were shut down, unemployment increased significantly. They asked the U.S. government security mechanism under the WTO rules, the output limit of the merchandise to the United States. According to official U.S. data released on the 11th, in January of this year, Chinese products in all textile imports in the United States accounted for 35%, the proportion reached 22% in imported clothing. Part of the cotton products import growth compared with the same period last year in particular. Jim Leonard, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Commerce, said they are concerned about the Chinese textile and apparel exports to the United States to increase U.S. trade and related industries. At the same time, on the same day, the EU spokesman Claude Wei Long - Revell, 11, said the EU is worried that a large number of textiles from China, currently being considered to reduce the imports of textiles from China this year. Wei Long - Revell said, there are signs that China's exports of textiles to the EU may soon extraordinary increase, the European Commission and EU governments to closely monitor this situation and is planning a possible security measures. The EU hopes that China's textile exports to Europe be able to return to normal levels, to prevent damage to the EU market. EU trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said in a statement on the 11th, he was very concerned about the number of Chinese textile exports to the EU, and will take appropriate action at the appropriate time. EU official said that the current requirements of all EU countries to provide statistics of the Chinese textile imports, only the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland and Latvia is not yet complete. EU before taking further action to collect sufficient data.
