Global Clothing And Other Textile Trade Protection Will Be Increasing

A few days ago, leaders of three international organizations warned the leaders of the group of 20 countries (G20) that their governments had made too many decisions in the past six months.

From mid October 2010 to mid April 2011, the group of 20 implemented 122 new trade protection measures, textiles,

World Trade Organization (WTO) chairman Pascal Lamy, world

Lamy said collective regulatory trade measures are raising fears that trade protectionism measures may be ready with the recent global financial crisis.

Such measures include the re prohibition of imported clothing used by Argentina, and the requirement for the importation of many new industrial products to apply for the "non automatic import license", covering products including textiles and clothing.

In February 24, 2011, Russia (and the common free trade area of Belarus and Kazakhstan) increased the import tariff of woven fabric products from 5% to 10%.

Similarly, the India government lifted the restrictions on the export of cotton yarn since April 1, 2011. Instead, the new notice stipulates that the export of cotton yarn must be registered with the foreign trade administration of the Ministry of Commerce of India from March 31st onwards.

Turkey is the major exporter of textiles and clothing in January 2011 to investigate the safeguard measures for importing shuttle woven fabrics and clothing products, and will implement tariff on temporary safeguard measures since July 21st this year.

WTO estimates that the new restrictions imposed by the group of 20 on imports amounted to US $56 billion 500 million, accounting for 0.6% of the total imports of the group of 20.