China, US start talks to end textile conflict
By Jiang Wei (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-17 05:50

China and the United States started talks on a comprehensive textile trade agreement in San Francisco yesterday.

The two-day talks are expected to centre on the seven categories on which the US imposed quotas in late May this year, according to information published by the US Trade Representative Office.

Female workers work at a textile factory in Dongguan, South China's Guangdong Province in this picture taken on August 1, 2005. [newsphoto]

Chinese textile enterprises are expecting an agreement over the issue to remove the largest uncertainty in trade with the US. But experts said the outcome could be limited because of the level of the talks.

The Ministry of Commerce said last week that the ongoing round of talks was still technical. The two sides failed to reach an agreement at the two previous rounds of talks in June and July.

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