U.S. Relations with the People's Republic of China (2005)

COMMERCE NEWS

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Office of the Secretary
Washington, DC 20230
www.ita.doc.gov/media

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 23, 2005

Contact: Meredith Williams
(202) 482-3809

STATEMENT ON CITA DECISION REGARDING REQUESTS FOR SAFEGUARD ACTION ON IMPORTS OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL FROM CHINA

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Franklin L. Lavin, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, released the following statement on the decision by the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) to end further consideration of 24 requests for safeguard action on imports from China.

"On November 8, 2005, U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman and Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai announced a broad agreement on textile trade between the United States and China. The agreement establishes conditions on trade in the vast majority of products covered by these cases and provides a general framework for textile trade between the United States and China. Based on these considerations, CITA has ended further consideration of all pending textile safeguard petitions."

CITA will publish shortly a Federal Register notice corresponding to today's announcement.

For more information, please visit otexa.ita.doc.gov

CITA decision fact sheet