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China-US textile talks make progress, but no deal
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-28 20:10

The United States and China are meeting for the third time to try to thrash out a comprehensive textile trade agreement and the fifth time since Washington began restricting clothing imports from China in May.

The two sides made little progress toward a deal in two previous rounds of talks in San Francisco and Beijing.

They have been at odds over basic elements such as the length of the pact, with the United States pushing for a deal that runs through 2008 and China wanting a deal that only lasts through 2007, the same as it struck with the European Union.

U.S. imports of shirts, underwear, trousers, bras and other clothing from China have shot up sharply following the end of a decades-old global quota system on January 1.

Washington already has restricted many clothing imports from China under a special "safeguard" provision of Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organization.

That measure allows countries to hold clothing and textile imports from China at 7.5 percent above the previous year in response to a "market-disrupting" surge.
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