TEXTILE  

出　　处：《China's Foreign Trade》2009年第2期14-14,共1页中国对外贸易（英文版）

摘　　要：Profits slipped at Chinese textile firms for the first time in a decade, the Xinhua news agency said on January 2, 2009, the day after the expiry of US ＇safeguards＇ designed to curb a potential surge in textile shipments from China. China＇s textile exports could fall by 30 percent in the first quarter of 2009, Xinhua said, citing Fan Min, chief editor of a weekly textile magazine published by the Ministry of Commerce. Some US textile producers fear that the expiration of the ＇safeguard quotas＇, put in place after an international quota system expired in 2005, could allow another flood of competing Chinese textile and clothing exports. Meanwhile, China＇s policy makers worry that the global economic crisis, which has triggered bankruptcies or closures at US retailers including Linens ＇n＇ Things,New world for China textile exports as quota systems end The sun set on a quota and license system that governed China's textile trade for decades on December of 2008. Asthe United States-China and European Union-China agreements on textiles and clothing expired with the old year,the Ministry of Commerce terminated supervision over quotas on 21 categories of textile exports to the United States and licenses on eight categories to the European

关 键 词：中国 纺织品业 出口量 利润 定额分配制 

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