SEPTEMBER 15, 2005, BOSTON and WASHINGTON – Citing continuing Chinese government intransigence on bilateral consultations and an ongoing flood of Chinese textile and apparel imports, U.S. textile industry and labor union officials announced that they had filed to reapply nine (9) current safeguards covering sixteen (16) product categories through the end of 2006 on September 14. All nine safeguards are scheduled to expire at the end of this year.

“The special textile China safeguards contained in China’s accession agreement to the WTO give the U.S. government the right to invoke safeguards if the U.S. market is threatened with disruption that will impede the orderly development of trade. The U.S. textile industry is simply asking the U.S. government to act within the rights granted to it by China’s accession agreement to the WTO,” observed Karl Spilhaus, President of the National Textile Association.

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The National Textile Association is made up of companies that weave, knit, or finish fabrics in the U.S. and the fiber, yarn, and other suppliers to the U.S. textile industry.