U.S. banned from limiting Chinese imports

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is being temporarily barred from imposing new limits on imported clothing and textile products flowing into the United States from China.

The action by a federal court in New York comes as U.S. textile makers brace for an even greater surge of Chinese apparel imports when decades-old worldwide quotas expire today.

U.S. textile and clothing manufacturers, worried about more competition coming from China, are seeking protections from the administration to limit Chinese imports. Industry officials decried the action and said it could further hurt beleaguered U.S. factory jobs.

Importers of Chinese goods and the retailers that buy apparel and textiles made in China hailed the judge's decision.

Judge Richard Goldberg of the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction that temporarily bars the administration from considering petitions seeking restrictions on imports of clothing and textiles from China.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/10542750.htm

[Cobalt Violet]

1. Wal-Mart must be happy.

:grr:

[justinsb]

2. Good to hear

anything that weakens the US economy reduces the chance of further wars.

[bhikkhu]

4. From a point near the poverty level in the US...

I hate to say it, but I agree.

[Xithras]

6. I disagree wholeheartedly

Historically speaking, wars have always been a great way for leaders to distract their populations and make them overlook poor or deteriorating domestic situations. Large scale wars are also a major boost to a nations economy (reduced labor availablity drives up wages) and generate industrial production requirements that cannot be satisfied by outsourcing due to security concerns. It also provides political cover to supress domestic resistance to government policies and to trample the rights of the citizenry in the name of "national security".

Remember, Hitler rose to power in an economically devastated Germany that was but a shadow of its former self. Recreating those circumstances in a freeper dominated United States IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.

[reprobate]

7. Not a good idea? It's happening, right here, right now.

[sam sarrha]

3. NEOCON manipulating.there is a provision inthe WTO to tarif china textiles

this a repugNut judge doing the W's dirty work for him.... now he is "Helpless to do anything about it..F'n Moron piece of crap.. my wife is losing her pattern job... F'n Fascists ..3rd job lost to china in 2 1/2 years. went from $68,000 to $32,000.. to Zero, lost our house, cant fix the car.. cant move or stay here


but they say it is GOOD FOR AMERICA... F'n Moron wet brain alcholic drug addict privilaged frat boy

[Festivito]

5. True, and written with clarity.

I wish I had appeasing words to write back. I wish better for you and so many other Americans.

[havocmom]

8. Further arguement for my case that there are no nations anymore.

There are no national laws/policies/interests. All is corporation rule.

[Benhurst]

9. You're right -- and that is really frightening. NT

[Jack_DeLeon]

10. I wish we never got suckered into buying cheap goods from China...

we could be buying more goods from Mexico or other nations in our hemisphere and at the same time improving the economicies and situations of those nations, but instead because of the greed of corporations and our population which must have the absolutely cheapest goods we deal with China and someday they are going to screw us over.

With the profits China is making off its virtual slave labor they are going to invest in a rope factory and make the rope to hang us with.

[SoCalDem]

12. The drug dealer always "gives away" the first few tastes of his drug.

and when you're hooked, the sky's the limit:(

Once the factories here are shut down, and sit idle, subject to vandalism etc, there is no going back. It costs too much money, and the greedy monopolists and merger-maniacs always see to it that the equipment is sold off too. No one can really ever "re-open" a factory without a huge cost.

We have sold out to the child labor sweatshop mentality of business.. $4 shoes and $8 jeans pretty much means that it can't be made here.

It's a vicious circle. The higher paying union jobs lost means NO MONEY to buy anything BUT junk made abroad for pennies, so the "customers" are not complaining. The owners have relieved themselves from pesky "regulations" and having to pay a benefits package, and even with cheap prices, they can make huge profits for the almighty stockholders who do NOT have to buy $4 shoes :(

[David__77]

11. Fine with me. What's good for third world development is good for peace.

I have great hopes for China's world-shaking, amazing economic growth. It is a model for the whole third world to follow in that regard.

[Quakerfriend]

13. This is all part of *co.s grand plan

Last week they also announced that they will likely do away with the MADE IN labels that are put on all goods.

I guess they think that way they can hide it from us.

[InvisibleBallots]

14. Judge Richard Goldberg of the U.S. Court of International Trade?

Who the hell is the US Court of International Trade? Do Walmart and the other corporations have their own courts now, that can overrule the Constitutional government?