According to Attorney Mr.Xinyu Lee in SSPO (Stein Shostak Shostak Pollack&O’Hara, LLP) Shanghai branch that are specialized in U.S. Customs laws, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has identified containers of Chinese apparel that were illegally transshipped in 2006 and 2007. These goods as products of China and charged to the U.S. - China agreed upon quota levels in 2008.
More than 900 individual importations containing more than four million dozens of apparel were declared to CBP as products of countries other than China in past two year. Eleven different countries were incorrectly declared as the country of origin for the Chinese apparel which is valued in excess of $80 million. The countries and economies most often declared as the country of origin for the goods were Philippines, Korea, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan and Malaysia. Shipments of Chinese apparel were also declared as products of the Czech Republic, Vietnam and Thailand.
Charged to the U.S.-China agreed upon quota levels in accordance with Directives to the Commissioner of CBP from the Chairman of the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA). The United States Trade Representative (USTR) also supports it. On November 8, 2005, U.S. - China signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning Trade in Textile and Apparel Products, in which U.S. volume adjustments is in error, China can request to amend it.
In the memorandum, the United States against China textile clothing quantitative import restrictions extending through December 31, 2008. The measures involving 10 categories of products and the most affected are cotton knit shirts and cotton trousers. The effect of quota price for 10 categories of textile clothing exports quantities reduced the second half of 2008 will be seen.
