CITA to Consider Petition Filed for China Safeguard Quota on Other Synthetic Filament Fabric
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has posted a fact sheet to its Web site announcing that on December 1, 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 other synthetic filament fabric (Category 620) from China.
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According to the ITA, CITA will now consider, as alleged in the request, whether imports of other synthetic filament fabric 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 regarding this request, launching a 30-day period during which interested parties and stakeholders may submit comments. 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 this Chinese textile product threaten to disrupt the U.S. market, CITA will request these consultations. As of the date consultations are requested by the U.S., a quota will be put in place to limit U.S. imports of other synthetic filament fabric.
The American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC), the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), the National Textile Association (NTA), and UNITE HERE! filed their request for this safeguard quota on November 8, 2004.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 12/03/04 news, 04120320, for BP summary of Office of Textiles and Apparel's (OTEXA's) most recent update to its list of petitions for China safeguard quotas, which mentions the filing of the other synthetic filament fabricsafeguard petition.)
ITA fact sheet available (including list of 39 10-digit HTS numbers for cat 620) at http://ita.doc.gov/media/FactSheet/1204/cita_120104.html