Tuesday, October 18, 2005

China blames US for textile row

News - BBC, UK

The textile row continues...

China has said one-sided US proposals are to blame for the breakdown in the latest round of talks on a textile export row between the two countries.
China's commerce ministry said it could not agree to a deal which would harm its industry's "healthy development".

But the official China Daily newspaper went further, saying that the US had insisted on terms that "contain too few, if any, incentives".

The row over Chinese textile exports encompasses both the US and Europe.

Western nations have seen a flood of garments coming from China since a global tariff deal, the Multi Fibre Agreement, lapsed on 1 January.

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