US to limit Chinese clothing imports
19/05/2005 - 07:26:45The US is to impose new limits on imports of clothing from China.
The action follows complaints that a surge of Chinese clothes to the US was hurting American companies.
The restrictions on items China can ship to the US include men’s and boys' cotton and man-made fibre shirts, man-made fibre trousers, man-made fibre-knit shirts and blouses and combed cotton-yarn garments.
American retailers are concerned the move will raise the prices of these goods for US consumers.
The US government committee, led by the Commerce Department, which decided to set the new quotas, found that these categories of imports threatened to disrupt the US market.
