According to Attorney Mr. Brian J. Murphy and Mr.Xinyu Lee in SSPO (Stein Shostak Shostak Pollack&O’Hara, LLP) that are specialized in U.S. Customs laws, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will monitor certain textile and apparel imports from China at the request of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means.
The ITC will provide statistical reports that cover the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Concerning Traded in Textile and Apparel Products,
200/301
363
222
443
229
447
332/432/632-T (plus baby socks)
619
338/339pt.
620
340/640
622
345/645/646
638/639pt.
347/348
647/648pt.
349/649
666pt.
352/652
847
359-S/659-S
The ITC Statistical Reports Inv. No. 332-500 will include an historical compilation of the volume, value, unit value, and import market share of the articles being monitored from January 1, 2003. The ITC also will provide its first report to the Committee by December 1, 2008 with reports every two weeks as the data.
In requesting the monitoring, the Committee said it is concerned that a market disrupting surge in textile and apparel imports from China could occur following the MOU’S December expiration. At present, US use the same way to monitor textile products from Vietnam.
In addition, attorney Brian J. Murphy and Xinyu Lee figured that U.S. Trade Agency has threatened to the World Trade Organization (WTO) sued the abolition of China textile industry on some of the subsidies in recently. The officials said the possibility of Chinese textile and apparel imports anti-subsidy investigation is greater than the anti-dumping investigation. In other words, The United States will attack to China with textile subsidies. This information is worthy of all the domestic textile industry and decision-maker authorities concerned.
