Ai biết về thông tin hạn ngạch may mặc(quotas) Mỹ áp dụng vào Việt Nam

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Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2003

Vietnam and U.S. reach tentative agreement on textile and garment quotas
Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam -After more than a week of tough negotiations in Washington, Vietnam and the United States have reached a tentative agreement on the amount of clothes the communist country can ship to America each year, an official said Monday.
The two sides agreed to cap Vietnam's textile and garment exports to roughly $1.7 billion a year, a Vietnamese official familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on con***ion of anonymity. Vietnam has already shipped $530 million to the United States in the first quarter of this year, he said.
"The negotiators are still working on the wording of the agreement and when it would take effect," the official said.
The United States wants the agreement to take effect retroactively on April 1, while Vietnamese negotiators are pushing for a July 1 start date, the official said.
Vietnam's textile and garment exports to the United States ballooned from $48 million in 2001 to $975 million last year, according to Vietnamese government figures. The sharp increase occurred after import tariffs were slashed when the two countries adopted a trade agreement in December 2001.
The quota negotiations began after some U.S. manufacturers expressed concerns that low-priced Vietnamese clothes could flood the American market and threaten their profits.
The Vietnamese official said he is hopeful the agreement will be signed Monday in Washington.
Under the deal, 30 categories of garments and textiles will be capped. For example, quotas for pants will be set at 84 million pairs a year, while cotton knit shirts will be cut off at 164 million, the official said. In the first two months of this year, Vietnam has already shipped half that amount.
"We are not very satisfied with the cap as we could export more than that to the U.S. markets," the official said. "We may have to look for other markets."
Officials from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi declined comment Monday.
In a letter last week to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, the United States Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel argued fiercely against imposing quotas, saying "this administration had done the American retailing and importing community a tremendous disservice, at a time when the retail sector is essential to the health of the U.S. economy."
Last year Vietnam exported a total of $2.75 billion in textiles and garments, making it the communist country's second biggest earner after crude oil.