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China, US begin new round of textile talks amid doubts

AFP, Beijing
China and the United States began a sixth round of talks here Wednesday aimed at settling a drawn-out dispute on China's soaring textile exports amid industry doubts of success.
However, government officials have maintained a brave face since the last round of negotiations ended without agreement in Washington last month.
"We hope there will be a positive outcome," said an official responsible for North American affairs at China's Ministry of Commerce.
The Chinese delegation is headed by Lu Jianhua, chief of foreign trade at
the commerce ministry, while the US team is led by special textile negotiator David Spooner.
Issues under discussion include the level of quotas to be imposed on Chinese imports by the US, their duration, and what period they will be benchmarked against.
The two-day talks are aimed at a comprehensive agreement to regulate Chinese textile shipments which have soared since global quotas were scrapped on January 1.
Since then, the US government has slapped what it calls "cumbersome" quotas on individual categories of Chinese textile exports in response to demands for action from the US
industry.
"We were able to make progress, particularly with product coverage and quota levels, but we did not reach an agreement with the Chinese," Spooner said after the last round of negotiations.
The fact that a new round of talks was taking place barely two weeks after the last indicates that both parties want to resolve the dispute "as soon as possible," Cao Xinyu, from the China Chamber of Commerce for the Imports and Exports of Textiles, told the Beijing Times.
But the Chinese industry has voiced pessimism that progress can be made, blaming Washingt-on's hardline stance for the stalemate.
Last week, Washington irked Beijing by accepting a US industry request to consider quotas on another 13 types of Chinese textile exports, bringing the number that could be restricted to 27.
The US inter-agency Comm-ittee for the Implemen-tation of Textile Agreements (CITA) said it would rule in January on whether quotas are needed against the 13 categories because of "market disruption".
Chinese textile exports to the United States have rocketed by more than 600 percent since global quotas on the trade were ended, according to US figures.