Les Etats-Unis sont bien décidés à imposer de nouveaux quotas aux importations de textiles chinois:
The Bush administration, reacting to a flood of Chinese clothing imports since January, announced on Friday that it would impose new quotas on cotton shirts, trousers and underwear from that country.Ces mesures semblent signaler un retour au mauvaises habitudes protectionnistes.
Les membres de l'OMC ont pourtant eu suffisamment de temps ces dix dernières années pour s'adapter à la disparition des quotas textiles:
Pascal Lamy, the former European trade commissioner who was picked on Friday to become the new head of the World Trade Organization, warned last week against imposing quotas.
Mr. Lamy said that the global trade body had been easing out the quota system over the last decade and that all countries had been given ample opportunity to prepare for the changes.
"It is not the law of the jungle, and the W.T.O. rules were clearly set," he said. "Why are some politicians now not recognizing that fact?"
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