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U.S. cloth groups urge blocking Chinese firms; Textile industry lobbies Bush to initiate safeguards.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 08-JUL-03 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: U.S. cloth groups urge blocking Chinese firms; Textile industry lobbies Bush to initiate safeguards.(BUSINESS)

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Byline: Jeffrey Sparshott, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The U.S. clothing and fabric industries, under intense pressure from rising imports, are demanding that President Bush quickly and unilaterally throw up barriers to products from China.

"If the administration does not act beginning in mid-2004, a new, enormous wave of plant closures and worker layoffs is certain to occur in the country's major textile areas ... as orders for yarns, fabrics, home furnishing products and apparel are diverted to China," textile industry groups wrote to Mr. Bush yesterday.

The letter, signed by 14 trade groups that represent manufacturers of about three-quarters of the textiles and fibers produced in the United...

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