US Textile Quota Plan Criticized

The association said it will ask the relevant departments of the Chinese Government to suggest countermeasures to protect Chinese textile manufacturers if the United States starts the process towards implementing restrictions on Chinese exports.

Grant Aldonas, the US undersecretary of commerce, announced the proposed safeguard actions on textile and apparel imports from China at the annual meeting of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute earlier this month.

On September 5 last year, the institute filed a petition to the US Government to request that the United States impose quotas on knitted fabrics, brassieres, gloves, night wear and textile luggage.

An unnamed official from the Chinese industry association said: "We hope the US Government will reconsider whether to start a formal process based on the groundless petition of the ATMI." In its petition, the US institute claimed that the Chinese exports mentioned damage the US industries involved.