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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9008

19 August 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/textiles/china
In open letter, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland call for exemptions on goods ordered before announcement of restrictions - letter from Clement and Mandelson

Brussels, 18/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - As promised by the Swedish minister of trade (EUROPE 9007), several EU countries hostile to Chinese textile import restrictions included in June's Shanghai Agreement - Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands - have joined forces to request in an open letter published in the Financial Times on 18 August, a more flexible approach to these restrictions, at the very moment 58 million pullovers and 15 million pairs of trousers are blocked at the EU's...