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Article: SEPARATE TEXTILE TRADE TALKS SOUGHT.(World Trade Organization)
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- October 5, 2005
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Byline: Evan Clark
WASHINGTON -- A coalition of 97 apparel and textile industry groups is pushing the countries of the World Trade Organization to address textiles separately in the current round of global trade talks.
The call for a special textile sectoral from the Global Alliance for Fair Textile Trade comes as trade officials throughout the world rush to lay the groundwork for a December WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. That meeting is intended to produce a framework that will help the Doha round of trade talks wrap up by the end of 2006.
"We expect that governments will make textiles a major issue in Hong Kong and we've presented ...