The agreement on textiles and clothing is designed to eliminate special arrangements in rising to those products.\u00a0 Formerly, a series of collateral agreements had been entered between states involved in the clothing and textile trade by way of exemption from general GATT principles.<\/p>\n
The arrangements had their origin in low-cost suppliers of cotton textile imports into the United States in the 1950s and \u201860s.\u00a0 The United States government negotiated concessions from Japan and other low-cost exporters to limit textile exports.\u00a0 The EU restricted the import of nearly all textiles.<\/p>\n
The Multi-Fibre Arrangement entered in 1973 applied to half of the developed world\u2019s imports from developing countries. It permitted states to establish quantitative limits on imports of textiles through bilateral agreements.\u00a0 It did not necessarily give developing states preference and allowed discrimination.<\/p>\n
The Multi Fibre Agreement was replaced by the agreement on textiles and clothing in 1994.\u00a0The agreement provided for the elimination of the Multi Fibre Agreement over a 10-year period.\u00a0 States were obliged to remove a percentage of their textile and clothing imports from quota controls progressively.<\/p>\n
All quotas were to be removed by 2005 so that all trading was to be incorporated into GATT by that stage.\u00a0 All quota restrictions inconsistent with GATT were to be abolished.\u00a0 Ultimately, the agreement on textiles and clothing ended in 2005 and became subsumed into general GATT principles.<\/p>\n\n
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Anti-Dumping Code The agreement on implementation of Article 6 of GATT 1994 is referred to as the Anti-Dumping Code.\u00a0 Products are dumped if they\u2019re introduced into commerce in another country at less than their normal value. This is the case if the export price is less than the comparable price in the ordinary course of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21123,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/21123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}