US Textile Groups Oppose Pakistan Duty-Free Concessions For Garments

U.S.A Spin and cotton The group lashed out against the proposed assistance. Pakistan From the recent flood hit the revival of trade remedy proposals, and said that the United States government should provide Palestinian humanitarian assistance, rather than sacrifice the interests of the United States workers.

The American Chamber of Commerce, in order to help the flood damaged Pakistan, urges the US government to give preferential treatment to the special textile and clothing products of the country. The move has prompted groups such as the American Textile Association (NationalAssociationofTextileOrganizations), the National Cotton Association (NationalCottonCouncil) and the US Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) to express their opposition to this proposal and to write to US Secretary of state Hilary and US trade representative Kirk.

The opposition groups said that the proposal would directly push us employment opportunities overseas, which would cause a devastating blow to over 400 thousand of the textile and garment industry in the United States.

AuggieTantillo, executive director of AMTAC, pointed out that the United States should propose to send us rescue products such as shelter shelter, blankets and medical supplies to the disaster area of Pakistan, which not only helped Pakistan, but also created jobs for Americans.

The American Chamber of Commerce appealed to extend the US government's original establishment of ReconstructionOpportunityZones (ROZs) on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, to provide special clothing products such as cotton trousers and shirts produced in the area, and to enjoy preferential treatment in the United States, and to expand the area of the ROZs area in Pakistan.

Even if the American Chamber of Commerce salted this proposal, it will not damage the interests of American textile manufacturers. However, the opposition group has pointed out that cotton trousers and shirts are highly sensitive export apparel items for Western Hemisphere manufacturers of American yarn and cloth.

The opposition group also talked about this proposal to turn us jobs overseas, which directly contradict the NationalExportInitiative NEI's doubling of US exports in 5 years.

To Hilary's sincere letter, it is clear that giving Pakistan export duty free preferential treatment will not only damage the manufacturers in the United States, but also make the garment manufacturers directly competing with Pakistan in the US market, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean and the Andes region on the verge of losing their jobs.

The letter also mentioned that the concept of the American Chamber of Commerce has greatly undermined the other priority of the Obama administration, namely the HaitiEconomicLiftProgramActof2010 (HELP) act of 2010, which was recently adopted, because Haiti is the direct competitor of Pakistan's many ready-made clothing products supplying the US market.