China Textile Federation Declares: Expect Sino US Trade To Return To Normal Track As Soon As Possible!

On July 12th, the China Federation of textile industry issued a statement on Sino US trade issues, saying: "expect Sino US trade to return to normal orbit as soon as possible.

The statement is as follows:

In July 10th, the office of the United States trade representative announced a list of tariffs to be added to China's $200 billion export to the United States, which involved all kinds of textile yarns, fabrics, industrial products, and some household textiles and textile machinery. In 2017, the total volume of these products exported to the United States amounted to more than 4 billion US dollars.

China Textile Industry Federation (hereinafter referred to as China Textile Union) is deeply worried about the acceleration of trade frictions by the United States, and resolutely opposes the US import and export tariffs on textiles and textile equipment from China.

Since the end of 2008, the Sino US memorandum of understanding on textiles and clothing has been completed, and the Sino US trade in textiles and clothing has returned to full liberalization and maintained steady and healthy development.

China's textile industry has adhered to the principle of fair participation in international competition and constantly improving the level of opening up to the outside world. It has actively integrated into the global textile industry division of labor, fully opened up trade and investment access, and established stable, efficient and mutually beneficial industrial chain and supply chain cooperation with the textile manufacturing industry, commerce and circulation industry and cotton planting industry in the United States.

China's textile industry has provided a large number of high-quality products with high cost performance for American consumers, creating many jobs for the textile industry and related industries in the United States.

The United States has also provided considerable quantities of cotton and cellulose for China.

Chemical fiber, textile fabrics, dyes and other textile industry chain supporting products, as well as a variety of functional household and industrial textiles, to meet China's diversified domestic demand market.

Over the years, China Textile Federation has been actively working with the National Cotton Association, the American nonwovens Association, etc.

Organizing exchanges and exchanges has provided many platforms and opportunities for promoting the establishment and maintenance of friendly cooperative relations between the two industries.

Constructing a responsible sustainable development mode is a common principle in the field of international trade and economic cooperation.

China's textile industry has always attached importance to the construction of social responsibility. It has taken the lead in promoting the integration of social responsibility values into industrial development. It has made important achievements in improving the employment environment, helping to accurately help the poor, establishing a green industrial system, carrying out green trade, complying with the trend of globalization, respecting and following the international economic and trade regulations. It has been recognized by the world bank, the United Nations and other international institutions. The office of the trade representative of the United States has evaluated the "CSC9000T China Textile and garment enterprise social responsibility system" as the best practice to guide enterprises to abide by laws and regulations.

At present, the trade friction between China and the United States is escalating. The whole textile industry is willing to take the national interest as the fundamental position, further deepen pformation and upgrading, vigorously strengthen the responsibility development, and resolve the negative impact of the unreasonable tax increase behavior of the US side.

The textile industry also unanimously looks forward to the proper handling of Sino US trade issues and returning to normal orbit as soon as possible.

At the same time, the close cooperation between China and the US textile industry is hard to come by and should be treasured. The China Textile Federation solemnly appeals to the relevant industry circles of the United States to uphold the concept of fair competition and win-win cooperation, and resolutely oppose the unfair tax increase initiatives of the US government.

China Textile Alliance will closely follow the further actions of the United States, inform the whole industry in a timely manner about information and early warning risks. It will also timely survey and summarize the opinions and demands of the vast number of enterprises, give feedback to the relevant government departments, and put forward feasible countermeasures and suggestions.

China Textile Alliance will actively strengthen communication with relevant industry organizations in the us to safeguard textiles.

Efforts should be made to ensure stable and healthy foreign trade environment.