# Termination of Further Consideration of Requests for Textile and Apparel Safeguard Action on Imports from China

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** November 29, 2005
- **Citation:** 70 FR 71471

## Text

COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE AGREEMENTS
Termination of Further Consideration of Requests for Textile and Apparel Safeguard Action on Imports from China
November 23, 2005.

AGENCY:

The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (the Committee).

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

The Committee is terminating further consideration of requests for safeguard action on imports from China of twenty-four textile and apparel product categories.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jay Dowling, Office of Textiles and Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, (202) 482-4058.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority:

Section 204 of the Agriculture Act of 1956, as amended; Executive Order 11651, as amended.

Background:

Requests for China textile safeguard action based on the existence and/or threat of market disruption, on twenty-four textile and apparel product categories, were filed between November 12, 2004 and October 11, 2005, by a coalition of textile and apparel industry associations and a union representing textile and apparel industry workers. CITA accepted each of these requests for consideration and published notices in the
Federal Register
establishing a 30-day public comment period. The twenty-four product categories are:

Category
Description

222
Knit fabric

226
Cheesecloth, batistes, lawns/voiles

301
Combed cotton yarn

332/432 & 632pt.
Cotton, wool & man-made fiber socks

338/339
Cotton knit shirts & blouses

340/640
Men's & boys' cotton & man-made fiber shirts, not knit

341/641
Women's & girls' cotton & man-made fiber shirts & blouses, not knit

342/642
Cotton & man-made fiber skirts

345/645/646
Cotton & man-made fiber sweaters

347/348
Cotton trousers

349/649
Cotton & man-made fiber brassieres & other body supporting garments

350/650
Cotton & man-made fiber dressing gowns & robes

351/651
Cotton & man-made fiber nightwear & pajamas

352/652
Cotton & man-made fiber underwear

359-S/659-S
Cotton & man-made fiber swimwear

363
Cotton terry & other pile towels

369pt./666pt.
Curtains & drapery

443
Men's & boys' wool suits

447
Men's & boys' wool trousers

619
Polyester filament fabric

620
Other synthetic filament fabric

634/635
Other men's & boys' man-made fiber coats & women's & girls' man-made fiber coats

638/639
Man-made fiber knit shirts & blouses

647/648
Man-made fiber trousers

The Committee's procedures state that it will make a determination within 60 calendar days of the close of the public comment period as to whether the United States will request consultations with China. The deadlines for determination on these cases range from November 30, 2005, through February 5, 2006.

On November 8, 2005, the Governments of the United States and the People's Republic of China signed a broad agreement concerning textile and apparel products. This Memorandum of Understanding was reached with a view to further developing the bilateral economic and trade relationship between the United States and China, providing the textile and apparel industries in the United States and China with a stable and predictable trading environment, and resolving trade concerns through consultations under Paragraph 242 of the Report of the Working Party for the Accession of China to the World Trade Organization. In light of the Memorandum of Understanding, and consistent with its objectives, the Committee has terminated further consideration of all textile safeguard requests that were pending on the date the Memorandum of Understanding was signed, November 8, 2005.

James C. Leonard III,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements.

[FR Doc. 05-23460 Filed 11-28-05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS

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