New rules protect textiles
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, June 22, 2003
Washington — The federal government has published rules to protect the U.S. textile industry from Chinese imports, something domestic textile makers have been awaiting for nearly a year and a half.
"If this safeguard is not used quickly and comprehensively, it will mean disaster for this country's textile and apparel workers," said Parks Shackelford, president of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute.
ATMI said 96% of the Chinese product imported in the past 17 months was eligible for action under the new rules. The rules are intended to reassure the U.S. textile industry in light of the upcoming elimination of World Trade Organization textile quotas from China in 2005.
"The past 17 months have been proof plenty that, without effective safeguards, China will put the textile and apparel industries in virtually every other country, including the United States with its nearly 1 million textile and apparel workers, out of business," Shackelford said.
Since 2001, ATMI statistics show that textile imports from China increased by 3.6 billion square meters, the largest such increase from a country in U.S. history. In 2001, China was the fourth-largest exporter of textiles to the United States. Now, it is the largest shipper of textiles here, and is 50% larger than No. 2 Mexico.
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