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American Textile Association: Supports tariffs on Chinese textile and apparel products
On May 17, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) held a hearing on China's 301 tariffs in Washington, D.C. Auggie Tantillo, president and CEO of the National Association of Textile Organizations (NCTO), attended the hearing and testified.“The U.S. textile industry strongly supports the Trump administration’s Section 301 sanctions to sanction China’s rampant intellectual property theft.”Auggie Tantillo said at the meeting.“The U.S. textile industry has urged the Trump administration to include finished textiles and apparel in retaliatory Section 301 tariffs against China.”Tantillo added that China's predatory, illegal trade operations, including intellectual property theft, have cost millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs, including thousands in the textile industry.“China's dominance of the global textile market is clearly aided by its rampant theft of US textile intellectual property. From patent infringement on high-performance fibers, yarns and fabrics to copyrighted design infringement on textiles and homewares, China has gained a pricing advantage through blatantly illegal activities. Imposing Section 301 tariffs on Chinese textile and apparel exports would send a long overdue signal to China that these predatory practices will no longer be tolerated.”Tantillo said. In addition to Tantillo's hearing testimony, the NCTO, the United States Industrial Textiles Institute (USIFI), and the Narrow Fabrics Institute (NFI) filed a 24-page joint statement as part of the USTR's public comment process. A previous USTR statement said the public has until May 11 to submit written comments on the list and rates to the Office of the Trade Representative. The Office of the United States Trade Representative on April 3“301 investigation”As a result, a list of Chinese goods to be subject to tariffs was announced, involving about $50 billion worth of goods imported from China each year. NCTO is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing textile manufacturers in the United States. The following are several relevant data about the U.S. apparel and textile industry in the past two years: In 2017, employment in the U.S. textile supply chain reached 550,500. In 2017, U.S. textile and apparel shipments were $77.9 billion. U.S. fiber, textile and apparel exports in 2017 were $28.6 billion. In 2016, capital expenditures for textile and apparel production totaled $2.4 billion. (this is the most recent year for which data is available)
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