华盛顿（路透社）由于担心中国对世界其他纺织品生产国所造成的威胁，纺织品和服装应该从本着降低关税的广泛的世界贸易会谈中移出来单独处理，一个国际联盟在星期二说。
     “我们不会让任何单一的国家……接收全球50或60个国家的生意，垄断纺织品贸易。”代表土尔其在美国的纺织品和服装出口商的美国ITKIB协会执委席卡.苏坎(Zika Sukan)说。
      苏坎通过电话在日内瓦发言，代表了55个国家纺织品贸易协会的联盟，即全球纺织品公平贸易联盟（GAFTT），美国和墨西哥的行业代表也在这个呼声当中。
       GAFTT希望纺织品和服装能够被排除在其他的消费品之外，因为这个行业所面临的单独形势，许多国家都担心中国自今年一月一日配额制取消以后，中国将垄断全球纺织品贸易。

                    China fears stir textile groups to seek own WTO pact
   Wed Oct 5, 2005 4:11 AM IST
   By Doug Palmer
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Textiles and clothing should be removed from broader world trade talks aimed at reducing tariffs and dealt with separately because of the threat posed by China to other textile producers around the world, an international coalition said on Tuesday.
   "We re not going to let any single country ... take over business from 50 or 60 countries around the globe and monopolize the textile trade," said Zika Sukan, executive director of ITKIB Association USA, which represents Turkey s textile and clothing exporters in the United States.
   Sukan spoke by telephone from Geneva on behalf of a coalition of textile trade associations in 55 countries called the Global Alliance for Fair Textile Trade, or GAFTT. U.S. and Mexican industry representatives also were on the call.
   The GAFTT coalition wants textiles and clothing excluded from steep tariff cuts that could be applied to other consumer and manufactured goods because of what they said were unique circumstances facing their industry worldwide.
   That includes China, which many countries fear will dominate global textile and clothing trade following the end of an international quota system on Jan. 1. Textiles include towels, sheets and a range of other fabric goods.
    In addition, many poor countries that have preferential access to the U.S. or the European Union markets in terms of reduced tariffs fear being hurt by a new world trade deal if all countries are given the same access.
    "There are enormous issues confronting the textile sector that just can not be addressed through some kind of formulaic approach," where tariffs on all goods would be cut by certain amounts, said Auggie Tantillo, executive director of the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition.
    A U.S. trade official said the United States had not decided whether to pursue a "sectoral" approach to textile and clothing negotiations, although Tantillo said the Bush administration had been receptive to that idea.
    U.S. tariffs on clothing and textile products are among the highest of any sector. In 2002, the United States collected about $7 billion in tariffs on clothing and $900 million on textiles, which was about half of the $19.1 billion in duties it collected on all goods that year.
    At the same time, the United States is the largest clothing and textiles importer in the world, taking in about $80 billion of product in 2002. Imports from China have surged sharply this year following the end of the global quota system.
    The United States has restricted some clothing imports from China under a special "safeguard" provision of Beijing s entry into the United States in 2001. It also is trying to negotiate an agreement with China covering textile trade through 2008, when the safeguard provision expires.
    One outcome of separate WTO negotiations on textiles and clothing could be an extension of the safeguard provision beyond 2008, said Cass Johnson, president of the National Association of Textile Organizations said.
    Rich countries should examine ways to help poor countries such as Cambodia, Haiti and Sri Lanka with big textile sectors deal with the threat posed by China and other large Asian suppliers, said Viji Rangaswami, a trade associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
    But if WTO negotiations are "solely focused on continuation of the safeguard and preventing tariff cuts on textiles and apparel, I don t see it helping developing countries in the long run," Rangaswami said.