When textile quotas end this week, will U.S. jobs go, too?

Source: McClatchy

WASHINGTON — As the head of one of the largest yarn manufacturers in the world, Anderson Warlick doesn't mind going up against other businesses. Competing with Chinese products, however, feels like taking on an entire foreign government.


The chief executive of Parkdale Mills in Gastonia, N.C., is worried that already tough competition from China will get far worse after Wednesday, when the remaining U.S. limits on imports of certain textile products expire.

"It's a very serious issue, and it could be devastating for the industry," Warlick said. "I think the entire textile chain will be affected."


At issue are limits on the number of cotton trousers, golf shirts, babies' socks and more than 30 other textile products that China can export to the United States. The quotas expire at the end of this year, and, under a World Trade Organization agreement, the U.S. government can't reimpose restrictions on Chinese textiles.



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Free trade benefits all people.

Free trade if:
1. all environmental standards are the same.
2. all labor standards are the same.

Why should China and India give their farmers DDT free of charge and then buy US cotton to produce products to be shipped to the EU who require proof of no residues of such banned pesticides. Then they ship the DDT laden cottons to us and we wonder why DDT levels keep rising in our estuaries despite the fact that it was banned over 25 years ago.

Why should Chinese and Indian farmer lose their crops due to textile mills dumping toxic wastes directly into rivers upstream while our mills have to pay millions to clean up the waste. It is an unfair playing field and I sure hope that you were kidding.

in the top 1%. You know, the folks Dubya calls "his base".

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helps.:hi:

I need organic cotton knee socks...

Go knitter4democracy! :applause: