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EU to apply `safety clauses` on China

18/04/2005

The European Commission aims to decide on April 25 whether to launch an investigation into booming Chinese textile imports, the first step towards applying limits allowed under World Trade Organisation rules.

 

Europe's textile industry is pressing the commission, the EU executive, to impose safeguard measures to curb a flood of Chinese imports that followed the end of the 31-year textile global quota system on January 1.

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