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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8957

31 May 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 29
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/china/trade/textiles
Displeased with Brussels/Washington commitment on emergency measures to restrict Chinese textile exports, Beijing threatens trade war

Brussels, 30/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - After the official announcement on 27 May that the European Commission was to undertake formal negotiation procedure with China at the WTO for two categories of textile products - tee-shirts and flax yarn - the tone became more strained, on 30 May, between Beijing, on one hand, and Brussels (and Washington), on the other. This followed the about-turn by Chinese authorities that had announced export taxes levied since 1 January this year on 148...

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