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Delta Farm Press
12/11/2006
Ignoring complaints the United States has already lost 100,000 textile jobs to similar trade legislation, the House and Senate voted to approve a tax and trade bill that grants almost unlimited access to the U.S. market for apparel products assembled in Haiti from yarn and fabric made elsewhere.
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Christian Science Monitor
12/11/2006
So far, the Bush administration has employed the arts of persuasion and diplomacy to try to get China to revalue its currency, respect intellectual property rights, and cooperate on energy and other economic issues.
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Winston-Salem Journal
12/9/2006
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a trade bill last night that many members of North Carolina's congressional delegation fear will hurt the state's already suffering textile industry.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
12/6/2006
U.S. textile industry leaders called on congressional leadership to pull foreign trade legislation that will benefit China and other foreign producers at the expense of U.S. jobs. The offending legislation is expected to be contained in a package scheduled to be considered by the U.S. House later this week.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
11/17/2006
The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) issued its 2006 annual report this morning.
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Washington Post
11/14/2006
As Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, incoming leaders are planning to insert labor and environmental protections into pending trade treaties and to demand that the Bush administration adopt similar measures in future pacts it negotiates, congressional aides and government officials said yesterday.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
11/10/2006
The U.S. foreign trade deficit with China hit a new record high of $23.0 billion for the month of September the U.S. government reported. The U.S. foreign trade deficit with China has totaled $166 billion for the first three quarters of 2006.
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Wall Street Journal
10/18/2006
As lawmakers hit the home stretch of tight races, textile makers are leveraging voters' economic anxieties to win industry protections and derail free-trade initiatives.
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Seoul Times
10/10/2006
Sometimes sworn enemies can become friends. A few decades ago the Vietnamese army defeated the Americans in a bloody war that changed the political landscape of the US and Asia.
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Textile World Magazine
10/3/2006
Sens. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., who have been sponsoring legislation that would impose a 27.5-percent tariff on Chinese imports, have backed off that proposal and say they will seek a less punitive course of action next year.
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Triad Business Journal
9/29/2006
The American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition, or AMTAC, said it supported legislation introduced Thursday by U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky that would make manipulation of currency actionable as "either or both an ... export subsidy and as a cause of present or threatened market disruption to United States domestic producers," according to a news release.
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Textile World Magazine
9/5/2006
As the US textile industry’s Washington-based lobbyists continue with their efforts to get modifications in the US-Vietnam bilateral trade agreement, the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) issued a statement saying Vietnam’s textile and apparel imports to the United States are growing faster than those of any other country.
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CNN Money
8/12/2006
Call it the Vietnam clothes conflict. The Bush administration, worried that American business is losing out on a growing overseas market, is on the verge of making Vietnam a full-fledged trading partner.
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Front Page Magazine
8/1/2006
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
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Delta Farm Press
7/31/2006
The Doha Round negotiations faced an uncertain future in Congress even if trade ministers from the G-6 countries had been able to reach an agreement on “modalities” for the five-year-old talks at a mid-July meeting in Geneva.
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Canton Repository
7/27/2006
When Nghia Van Phi first returned home to Vietnam in 2003, he still carried animosities toward the Communist government he had fled nearly three decades earlier.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
7/25/2006
American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) Executive Director Auggie Tantillo commented on announcement of the suspension of the WTO's Doha Round trade talks in Geneva:
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Textile World Magazine
7/25/2006
Congress has approved a free trade agreement (FTA) with Oman that is opposed by US textile manufacturers because of its tariff preference levels that permit use of components in apparel from nonparticipating countries.
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Emerging Textiles
7/19/2006
Vietnam's bid to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is entering a crucial stage.
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Textile World Magazine
7/18/2006
US textile manufacturers and importers of textiles and apparel met head-on at a Senate Finance Committee hearing and took diametrically opposed positions with respect to granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Vietnam.
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Agence France Presse
7/13/2006
US legislation aimed at normalizing trade relations with Vietnam drew a mixed response in a congressional hearing, with business organizations split on the issue.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
7/13/2006
American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition Executive Director Auggie Tantillo testified today before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in opposition to S. 3495, legislation that would grant permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Vietnam.
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Voice of America
7/12/2006
Congress must endorse permanent normal trade relations with Vietnam before that country can join the World Trade Organization.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
7/12/2006
American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) Executive Director Auggie Tantillo is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on July 12 at 10:00 AM EDT in opposition to S. 3495, legislation to extend permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Vietnam.
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Nightly Business Report
7/10/2006
The Senate Finance Committee begins considering this week a trade deal clearing the way for Vietnam to join the World Trade Organization.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
6/30/2006
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5672, the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007, by a vote of 393 to 23.
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Triad Business Journal
6/30/2006
A textile industry trade group praised language in a House appropriations bill that requires U.S. trade negotiators to report back to the House on the textile and apparel portion of ongoing world trade talks.
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Textile World Magazine
6/20/2006
US textile manufacturers believe they may be overcoming a major hurdle in the Doha Round of trade liberalization negotiations as a US trade official said textiles and apparel should get “special treatment.”
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TCS Daily
6/20/2006
Two recent events -- one military in nature, the other economic -- have propelled U.S.-Vietnam bilateral relations forward, mending, to a considerable degree, a vital strategic relationship that was severed over thirty years ago by a devastating decade-long war.
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Financial Times
6/19/2006
A fresh transatlantic disagreement has arisen at a tense moment in the troubled “Doha round” of trade talks, with the European Union and the US divided over whether textiles and garments deserve special protection.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
6/15/2006
The U.S. textile industry welcomed the statement by the U.S. government at the World Trade Organization (WTO) that the textiles must receive "special consideration" in the current round of world trade talks.
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Emerging Textiles
6/15/2006
The establishment of a law normalising trade relations with the US would bring Vietnam one step closer to WTO membership and consecutive end of US quotas.
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Yarns and Fibers (Mumbai, India)
6/15/2006
The US trade groups, American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC), National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), and the National Textile Association (NTA) have all welcomed the move taken by the forty four members of the U.S. House of Representatives for having separate negotiations for textiles in WTO talks and a textile safeguard as a condition for admitting Vietnam.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
6/14/2006
American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) announces report on forty-four (44) U.S. Representatives wrote U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Susan Schwab and called for (1) separate sectoral negotiations for textiles in the ongoing World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round talks, and (2) an adequate textile safeguard as a condition for admitting Vietnam into the WTO.
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Inteletex (UK)
6/14/2006
Forty-four members of the U.S. House of Representatives have supported a call for separate negotiations for textiles in WTO talks and a textile safeguard as a condition for admitting Vietnam.
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Triad Business Journal
6/14/2006
The debate on textile trade policy in Washington is heating up again. On Tuesday, White House-backed legislation was introduced in Congress that would permanently normalize American trade relations with Vietnam, a move that also would set up the southeast Asian nation for entry into the World Trade Organization.
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Winston Salem Journal
6/6/2006
Granting Vietnamese textile manufacturers quota-free access to the U.S. market may be akin to pouring salt into an open wound for some U.S. companies already dealing with fierce Chinese competition.
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Textile World Magazine
6/5/2006
The United States and Vietnam have reached a final agreement on a bilateral trade agreement calling for the removal of textile and apparel import quotas and a reciprocal pledge from Vietnam to make “substantial changes to its trade laws and practices.”
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Inteletex
6/1/2006
A trade agreement between the United States and Vietnam has been slammed by the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) as a "disaster" for the U.S. textile industry.
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Washington Times
6/1/2006
The U.S. yesterday signed off on an agreement that will allow Vietnam into the World Trade Organization.
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Triad Business Journal
5/31/2006
A textile industry lobbying group blasted a trade agreement signed by the United States that would allow Vietnam to join the World Trade Organization and would lower trade barriers between the two countries.
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Fox News
5/22/2006
The Bush administration expressed optimism Monday that a recently completed trade agreement with Vietnam can be signed by early June and supporting legislation can win congressional approval this summer.
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Spartanburg Herald-Journal
5/20/2006
A new trade agreement between the United States and Vietnam might lead to less expensive clothing in big chain stores, but the textile industry is concerned that another effect might be the loss of more jobs from Upstate mills.
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Textile World Magazine
5/16/2006
Textile lobbyists have reacted sharply to the US Treasury Department’s decision not to label China a “currency manipulator.” The administration opted instead to continue informal discussions on what is viewed by textiles and other industries as a serious currency undervaluation.
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Textile World Magazine
5/16/2006
US Trade Representative Rob Portman has unveiled a bilateral agreement that will pave the way for Vietnam’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). The pact came under immediate fire from US textile interests.
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The Standard (Hong Kong)
5/12/2006
China says it will push forward gradual currency reforms in a "rational" way in response to demands for a quicker yuan appreciation.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
5/11/2006
On behalf of the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) Executive Director Auggie Tantillo issued the following statement in response to the US Treasury's semi-annual report on foreign exchange that failed to designate China as a currency "manipulator."
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Reuters
5/10/2006
Congressional critics of China's foreign exchange policy on Wednesday complained bitterly about a Bush administration report that failed to accuse Beijing of manipulating its currency, but they did not call for immediate duties on Chinese goods.
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Associated Press
5/10/2006
The Bush administration on Wednesday announced it would not brand China as a country that was manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
4/21/2006
American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) insist on U.S. government to take full advantage of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C. to communicate to China that if it does not stop using predatory trade practices China will be penalized with reduced access to the U.S. market.
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Xinhua - China
4/20/2006
Cao Xiaojian turned his textile company from the brink of disaster after last year's trade disputes between China, the European Union and the United States, but he believes many problems still lie ahead.
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San Francisco Chronicle
4/18/2006
When Chinese President Hu Jintao visits the United States this week, international trade is expected to dominate the agenda, trumping even hardy perennials in Sino-American relations such as human rights and tensions over Taiwan.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
4/14/2006
American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) said Chinese President Hu Jintao is scheduled to travel to Washington, DC on April 20 to discuss US-China relations.
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Home Textiles Today
3/29/2006
The safeguard issue may have come and gone, but sourcing lobbyists and U.S. manufacturing coalition lobbyists continue to battle over textiles trade arrangements.
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Roanoke Times
3/25/2006
Businesswoman Giulia Gustafson reacted with a smile and a frown to recent news of a competitor's closing.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
3/24/2006
ITKIB Association USA, the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC), and the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) allowed the Republic of Turkey's formal proposal for a separate sectoral negotiation for textile and clothing products within the WTO's Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) talks.
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Home Textiles Today
3/15/2006
The American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) and the Unites States Industrial Fabrics Institute have endorsed the expansion of the Berry Amendment, a measure to mandate the purchasing of domestic-only products for a range of shelter, utility and comfort functions by the employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Greater Triad Business Journal
3/13/2006
A North Carolina member of Congress will introduce legislation Wednesday that would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to find American suppliers when it buys uniforms, tents and other textile products.
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Home Textiles Today
3/2/2006
The American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC), which comprises a dozen U.S. fiber and textile producer associations, has requested that the World Trade Organization provide a “textile sectoral” as part of the Doha Round of trade negotiations.
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New York Times
2/28/2006
The Venture International factory here, where rows of Laotian women sew flame-retardant cloth into coveralls for oil rig workers, should, in theory, benefit from a global agreement in December to eliminate almost all barriers imposed by rich nations on exports from the world's 50 poorest countries.
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Wall Street Journal
2/17/2006
Markor International Furniture Manufacture Co., a Chinese company, was charged by U.S. furniture producers in 2003 with harming their businesses by selling products below the fair cost of production. That's when the company hired the respected U.S. law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr to defend itself.
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Inter Press Service News Agency
2/10/2006
The U.S. trade deficit with the world has reached an all-time high, setting new record levels with China, Japan, Europe and oil-exporting nations, the U.S. the Commerce Department's said Friday, even as some U.S. senators slammed China as the biggest contributor to the deficit.
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Bloomberg
2/9/2006
China agreed to limit textile exports to Brazil, where the government says the products are threatening local industry. The two countries will sign an agreement tomorrow, the Brazilian Trade Ministry said. The accord, to be signed in Beijing
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Scotsman - United Kingdom
1/14/2006
THE US trade deficit has unexpectedly narrowed as lower oil prices cut import costs, helped by record exports of goods such as aircraft.
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Home Textiles Today
1/13/2006
The American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition has called for the United States to reassessment its trade policy with China, after new trade figures released by the government yesterday showed that the U.S. trade deficit with China likely will exceed $200 billion in 2005.
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Channel News Asia
1/13/2006
US critics of China's trade policies got fresh ammunition with data showing the booming country's surplus over the United States is set to exceed 200 billion dollars in 2005.
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Forbes / AFX News Limited
1/12/2006
US manufacturers demanded action against a 'predatory' China after new data showed the US trade deficit with the country on course to surpass 200 bln usd in 2005.
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