Ten Years Of WTO Accession, China'S Textile Industry Continues To Trade Frictions.

In 2004, in order to deal with Sino US trade frictions, the Chinese government and industry groups organized contacts with the United States.

Gao Yong, who took part in the negotiations, remembers clearly that from the top of the US government to the industry associations and enterprises, the employment population of the US textile industry has been reduced at a rate of 4 to 6 thousand per week, and employment is the largest politics in the United States.

The developed countries in Europe and America may not want to face up to the other side of the ocean.

After China's accession to the W T O in 2001, textile and garment exports began to grow rapidly, and socks and other products increased by more than a dozen times a year. The developed countries in Europe and the United States saw this as a "socks campaign" and began to adopt "special safeguard measures" for Chinese textiles. When importing a surge in imports of certain products, import countries or economies could take some urgent trade restrictive measures.

In accordance with the agreement on textiles and clothing, since 2005, the quota system for textile and clothing has been abolished for more than 40 years, and textile and clothing exports have entered the "quota free era".

In 2005, China's textile exports surged, and textile industry indexes reached a new high.

However,

In July 2006, the US Department of Commerce launched an anti-dumping investigation on imports of polyester staple fibres in China, involving an export amount of about 65 million US dollars, involving nearly 100 Chinese companies.

The Chinese textile import and Export Chamber of commerce at that time designated the case as "the first major case of textile anti-dumping between China and the United States".

After ten years of WTO entry, textile and clothing industry is the first industry to be restricted by trade protection, and has always been the hardest hit area of trade friction.

In recent years, the China Textile Import and Export Chamber of Commerce has organized more than 80 foreign anti-dumping cases against China's textiles and garments, 20 cases of safeguard measures and special cases.

In addition to Europe and the United States, Turkey, Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, South Africa, Mexico and many other developing countries frequently use various trade remedy measures to restrict China's textile and clothing exports.

According to the analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's Industry Injury Investigation Bureau, after the abolition of the quota system, textile trade has not really liberalized the market, instead of labor standards, special safeguard measures, green barriers, environmental barriers, technical barriers, and a series of new forms of trade restrictions.

The responsible person of the China Textile Import and Export Chamber told the economic reference daily that a complete response process and coping mechanism has been gradually formed, and good results have been achieved in many key cases.

Among them, the EU anti-dumping case of chemical fiber cloth was awarded the ruling of the market economy status of the 26 enterprises which had never been seen before. The United States polyester staple fiber anti-dumping case got a rare zero tax rate; the India Satin anti-dumping case revoked the investigation of a category product; the cases of Turkey and Brazil were first awarded some partial tax rates.