FRANCE: Trade body calls for extension on Chinese import quotas
By just-style.com | 5 April 2007
The President of France's Union des Industries du Textiles (UIT), Lucien Deveaux, has called for quotas on Chinese imports into the EU to be prolonged until end-2008 in line with agreements between the US and China.
He said that if the quotas were lifted at the end of this year as scheduled, it would lead to enormous pressure from China on Europe, especially as the US market would continue to be protected.
"The European Commission is more attentive to our requests now than before," Devaux claims - ever since the French and Dutch voted "No" to the European Constitution - and he is counting on the new French President (when elected) to defend the position of French industry on the issue.
"If we obtain one year more [of quotas] this will allow us to be better organised in the face of Chinese imports," Devaux underlined.
By Stuart Todd.
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