CITA to Consider Petition Filed for China Safeguard Quota on Combed Cotton Yarn
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has posted a statement and fact sheet to its Web site announcing that on November 18, 2004, the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) agreed to consider a petition filed by certain textile groups requesting a safeguard quota on combed cotton yarn (Category 301) from China.
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According to the ITA, CITA will now consider, as alleged in the request, whether imports of combed cotton yarn from China "threaten the U.S. with market disruption, and whether imports of the subject products from China will play a role in that increase and in the threat of market disruption."
CITA to Announce 30-Day Comment Period, Etc.
The ITA states that CITA will publish a Federal Register notice seeking public comments regarding this request, launching a 30-day period during which interested parties and stakeholders may submit comments on the request. CITA will make a determination within 60 calendar days of the close of the public comment period on whether to request consultations with China.
If CITA makes an affirmative determination that imports of Chinese textiles and apparel products threaten to disrupt the U.S. market, CITA will request consultations with China. As of the date consultations are requested by the U.S., a quota will be put in place to limit U.S. imports of combed cotton yarn.
The American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC), the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), and the National Textile Association (NTA) filed their request for a safeguard quota on October 27, 2004.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 11/01/04 news, 04110120, for BP summary of Office of Textiles and Apparel's (OTEXA's) update to its list of recent petitions for China safeguard quotas, which mentions the filing of the cotton yarn safeguard petition.)
ITA statement and fact sheet available at http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/FactSheet/1104/yarn_111804.html