| U.S.-China Trade: Textile Safeguard Procedures Should Be Improved
U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-05-296, April 4, 2005
U.S. textile and apparel imports from China have more than doubled in value since China became a World Trade Organization (WTO) member in December 2001. When joining the WTO, China agreed to a special textile safeguard mechanism applicable only to that country. The China textile safeguard allows WTO members to place defined limits on particular textile and apparel imports from China through the end of 2008, despite the general elimination of most textile quotas on January 1, 2005. GAO concludes that in the U.S., procedural shortcomings have impaired effective application of the China safeguard.
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