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Interview of Congressman Duncan Hunter Congressman Duncan Hunter of California is one of the few Republican members of Congress with the distinction of having voted against both the NAFTA and […]

INDA, Association of the Non-woven Fabrics Industry, Cary, NC, is embarking on a coordinated effort to broadly introduce the nonwovens industry to members of the U.S. Congress--both the U.S. House [...]

The media and its expectations of Bob Dole pose the biggest challenges to the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee. Dole is perceived by the media as uncommunicative and cold, a candidate who has nothing of note to say and who rarely smiles. Pat Buchanan, on the other hand, smiles a great deal, and although his message is almost universally decried, he provides great sound bites and is a source of wonderful news items. Even on Super Tuesday, when Dole swept seven states, his victory was overshadowed in the media by the possibility that Colin Powell could be persuaded to join the Republican presidential ticket., On Super Tuesday at a ballroom in the ANA Hotel in Washington, Bob Dole celebrated a sweeping victory. While the crowd chanted 'Dole, Dole, Dole,' reporters and political operatives were [...]

Pres Bill Clinton lobbied the House Textile Caucus for last minute votes to support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and promised to support key textile industry issues if NAFTA is enacted. Pres Clinton specifically stated that he would support improved policing of illegal imports and would investigate a 15 year phaseout of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade., WASHINGTON -- In the attempt to garner the handful of votes needed to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in today's House vote, President Clinton turned to the House [...]

WASHINGTON -- U.S. trade officials said Thursday they will begin negotiations on a broad textile quota restraint agreement with China after receiving strong feedback in favor of such a deal [...]

WASHINGTON -- A new coalition of six textile, fiber and machinery associations, said to represent $100 billion in annual textile sector sales, endorsed the Central American Free Trade Agreement on [...]

WASHINGTON -- The National Cotton Council, which represents manufacturers and ginners, has reversed position and lined up in support of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The endorsement came after [...]

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of apparel and textile groups bracing for the end of the quota system next year has made a formal request for the Bush administration to go [...]

WASHINGTON -- Textile executives are stepping up efforts to influence voting in North Carolina, where the presidential contest and a pivotal U.S. Senate race are considered too close to call. [...]

PARIS -- Exhibitors at Texworld, the fabric fair that closed here Friday, said political uncertainty and anxiety about the end of global apparel quotas on Jan. 1 had cast a [...]

POINT CLEAR, Ala. -- Pros and cons of outsourcing, mounting problems with shipping and the steamroller threat of China on the U.S. hosiery industry were hot topics at the annual [...]

WASHINGTON -- China fever in the nation's capital shows no sign of subsiding. This time it's the lobbying arms of apparel retailers and apparel and textile importers taking their turn, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The beleaguered U.S. textile industry got a political boost Wednesday in the form of two letters sent to President Bush by a cadre of Republican and Democratic lawmakers [...]

WASHINGTON -- After spending the last month agitating in the South, a coalition of textile, fiber and cotton executives are taking their campaign to limit Chinese imports to the Northeast. [...]

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of 14 textile and fiber groups that launched a unified lobbying campaign three weeks ago is still divided on some issues when it comes to free-trade [...]

WASHINGTON -- The textile industry might be making one of its last stands. Facing staggering job losses and plant closures, steep price declines and penetrating imports from China, textile executives [...]

WASHINGTON -- A unified textile industry challenged the Bush administration Wednesday to act aggressively on invoking a special textile and apparel safeguard action against China, claiming it is a 'litmus [...]

WASHINGTON -- The various sectors of the domestic textile industry -- fiber, fabric and yarn manufacturers, as well as cotton farmers -- are setting aside their squabbles over the fine [...]

WASHINGTON -- Roger Milliken and his comrades in the domestic textile industry may have lost their bid to unseat South Carolina GOP incumbent Jim DeMint, but they're determined, leading up [...]

At a time when the Bush administration has vowed to help maintain textile jobs, domestic textile executives claim two U.S government-sponsored export expansion programs are at odds with that mandate. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The domestic textile industry has found its political voice again. It almost seems like the 1980s and early 1990s, when the industry carried considerable clout on Capitol Hill [...]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has had a love-hate relationship with trade liberalization throughout history, balancing domestic needs with global growth. Retailers and importers favor trade agreements with liberal rules of [...]

WASHINGTON -- 'Promises, promises' was the lament of textile executives last week during the American Textile Manufacturers Institute's annual meeting, where Commerce Secretary Donald Evans and Capitol Hill lawmakers from [...]

WASHINGTON -- Pleas from textile states to the Bush administration to help flagging mills keep coming. The latest cry was issued Friday at a textile-industry summit in Dallas, N.C., where [...]

WASHINGTON -- The new textile lobbying coalition bringing together mill management and organized labor doesn't have a name yet, a second meeting scheduled or confirmed members, but the fledgling effort, [...]

NEW YORK -- In an effort to make sure Washington makes good on what it contends were promises to help the textile industry, the Northern Textile Alliance on Friday sent [...]

NEW YORK -- In an effort to improve the chances of industrialized nations selling fabrics globally, textile-maker organizations from the U.S., European Union, Canada, Mexico and Turkey have agreed to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote today on a version of presidential trade promotion authority similar to one passed last week in the House by a [...]

WASHINGTON -- The congressional Textile Caucus is ready to make a deal: If President Bush takes steps to help ailing domestic mills and apparel makers, lawmakers from textile and apparel [...]

WASHINGTON -- The members of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute headed to the nation's capital for their annual meeting, in a move intended to underline the group's newly refined focus [...]

Members of INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, Gary, NC, have formed a task force group to discuss flammability standards for upholstered furniture and bedding. The task force will [...]

Members of the nonwovens industry who do business with the Federal government should be aware of a recent proposal by the Clinton Administration regarding changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulations [...]

EPA actions, international trade developments are top agenda items. As 1998 comes to a close, INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, can look back on yet another extraordinarily busy [...]

A House proposal to ease apparel and textile trade restrictions with sub-Saharan Africa has prompted strenuous opposition from US apparel and textile makers. Milliken & Co chairman Roger Milliken, for example has expressed his vehement opposition to the bill. In a letter to lawmakers, he said that giving African countries nonreciprocal access to the US market is not the way to encourage African development., A House plan to liberalize textile and apparel trade with sub-Saharan Africa has encountered a blitzkrieg from the domestic industries, which charge that the plan, while a laudable, humanitarian gesture, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Legislative activity on expanding trade benefits to the Caribbean could start in the coming weeks. However, the long-pending proposition, which would give the Caribbean Basin Initiative countries benefits [...]

US retailers and clothing importers will claim at a Jun 7, 1996, hearing that sanctions on imported Chinese apparel could cause dramatically higher consumer prices and catastrophic losses at some stores. Domestic textile makers, claiming that there are alternate sources for most Chinese-made apparel, disagree with that conclusion, however. Representatives of federal cabinet agencies will hold the hearing, which results from President Clinton's threat to place 100% import duties on some Chinese goods., WASHINGTON -- A long list of American retailers and importers is warning the government that imposition of threatened sanctions on Chinese apparel could trigger catastrophic losses at big stores and [...]

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is developing a strategy to counter protectionist rhetoric such as that of presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. NRF president Tracy Mullin said that the group does not want to directly challenge any candidate on the issue. The group is instead likely to focus on steps such as encouraging leading executives to author opinion pieces. Political contributions made by leading retail, apparel, and textile executives are detailed., WASHINGTON -- As part of an effort to increase retailer's clout in Washington the National Retail Federation is working on a public relations strategy to counter the antitrade rhetoric of [...]

nonwovens industry could benefit from bill currently caught in political limbo A regulatory reform bill that is supported by INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, has been stalled in [...]

President Clinton's decision to establish normal diplomatic relations with Vietnam resulted in immediate calls to place quotas on textile and apparel imports from Vietnam. The US apparel and textile industries are promising to block efforts to negotiate a commercial treaty with and grant Most Favored Nation status to Vietnam, unless quotas on Vietnamese textiles and apparel are established., WASHINGTON - President Clinton's decision Tuesday to normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam may, as he said, permit the U.S. to 'bind up our wounds' from that divisive war, but it [...]

WASHINGTON - With retailers and textile executives helping the cause, the White House was optimistic Wednesday it will have enough support to achieve GATT ratification when the Senate votes on [...]

An amendment to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade rule-of-origin proposed by John Breaux and Ben Cardin is supported by 12 textile and apparel industry associations. The amendment would change the current rule of origin from the country the fabric is cut to the country which assembles the article of clothing. This would prevent countries, such as Hong Kong, from avoiding quotas by performing most of the work on a garment in the home country and yet having that garment labeled as the work of another country because the cutting was done in the other country., NEW YORK -- Twelve textile and apparel industry associations have thrown their support behind the Breaux-Cardin rule-of-origin amendment to the GATT Uruguay Round. The amendment, introduced in the Senate by [...]

Representatives from the textile and clothing industries are lobbying legislators to develop implementing legislation for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that is favorable to their industries. In general, they want the inter-agency Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements to be the regulatory body to decide how and when particular product tariffs under the 10-year phaseout of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement., WASHINGTON -- While the debate mounts over the broader issues of the GATT Uruguay Round treaty, the nation's textile and apparel manufacturers, importers and retailers will be busy trying to [...]

Representatives of the clothing and textile industries testified before the House Trade Subcommittee on how the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Uruguay Round treaty should be implemented. Manufacturers, importers and retailers offered differing perspectives on the issues of penalties for countries that keep their markets closed and on the phaseout of the MultiFiber Trade Arrangement. American Textile Manufacturers Institute Executive VP Carlos Moore was among those frustrated that the original 15-year phaseout had been replaced by a 10-year phaseout., WASHINGTON -- Retailers and importers went up against domestic manufacturers of textiles and apparel Wednesday on the tariff and quota phaseout details being crafted in the implementing legislation for the [...]

The apparel industry is sharply divided about support for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), largely over labor and manufacturing issues. Labor interests are opposed to NAFTA and maintain that it will take away many domestic apparel and textile industry jobs if enacted. Executives in the manufacturing sector of the apparel industry strongly support NAFTA and claim it will produce many jobs in administrative, management and sales positions., NEW YORK -- You might think they were debating a new labor contract. As today's vote on the North American Free Trade Agreement looms in the House, SA finds itself [...]