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Brussels 3rdSeptember, 2003

UPDATEDNON-TARIFFBARRIERSINTHETEXTILEANDCLOTHING

MARKETFORSELECTEDCOUNTRIES

INTRODUCTIONANDHISTORICALREMINDER

Euratex strongly believes that to secure additional and true market access, the Doha Development

Agenda underlined rightly the need to ind agreement on the removal o non!tari barriers "#$B%s& ornon!agricultural products to avoid undermining the beneits rom a reciprocal and symetrical tari dutyliberalisation'

(istorically, #$B%s have gro)n in importance ater the implementation o the *arrakech Agreement in+-' $hose barriers have mushroomed all over the )orld and have progressively hampered trade)hile taris "applied and bound& are alling' Euratex has repeatedly stressed this point since +. andhas conducted several en/uiries to identiy those #$B%s and has supported all the ommission

initiatives in this ield'

$he Euratex experience sho)s that once #$B%s appear they tend to last or a long time, as they are verydii lt d tl "i ti d & t b th i t i th

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diicult and costly "in time and money& to remove because there is no transparency in the measures

industry' Euratex has made an attempt to classiy and deine )hat is a #$B and some important

countries+

, )hen signing speciic textile agreements rom 2000 on)ard, have accepted this overalldeinition' 9lease ind in annex + this deinition'

(aving in mind those elements and despite this absence o common vision, it is accepted that #$B%scan be regrouped in our main amilies aF technical barriers to trade "$B$&, bF custom procedures, cFthe Ggrey areaH barriers compared to actual 6$7 rules and dF Sanitary and 9hytosanitary *easures"S9S&'

6hile the latter concerns mainly agriculture and agro!industrial products, the grey area barriers )illhave to be addressed separately to ind an agreed solution' $his implies that most o the present #$B%sacing the exports o manuacturing products could be classiied as $B$ or $rade :acilitation areabarriers'

THENON-TARIFFBARRIERSDILEMMAFACEDBYTHEEC TEXTILEANDCLOTHINGINDUSTRY

Based on the most recent inormation gathered )ithin the E industries enclosed in annex 2 and 3 are

various tables summariIing the non!tari barrier problems E exporters are acing in their day!to!dayoperations' $he countries concerned Argentina, Australia, BraIil, anada, hile, Egypt, 1ndia,1ndonesia, Japan, *alaysia, *exico, 9akistan, 9hilippines, 94 hina, South Arica, South Korea,$ai)an, $hailand and SA, represent our main E target as uture gro)th markets or our competitive$ exporters'

Euratex added also Bangladesh, 8ust to sho) )hat may or )ill occur in uture )ith least developed

countries unless concrete lanking measures are supported and correctly unded to overcome thoseproblems'

6herever possible Euratex has completed the picture )ith more recent inormation gathered directly


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GE!1#D1A Joint 1nitiative or enhancing $rade and 1nvestment ! $extiles and lothing ! 6orking9apersH ! Business :orum, Brussels, Sept 2., 2002 @ Asia 1nvest

G2002 4eport on S Barriers to $rade and 1nvestmentH, D= $rade, E ommission

$he results o the en/uiry also allo)ed Euratex to classiy, or those target markets the most common#$B%s its exporters are acing on a daily basis' $he tables summarised the intensity o the problems theE textile and clothing companies ind acing them )hen trying to penetrate ast gro)ing markets'

Ater a close look to the inormation gathered, Euratex considers that the situation in the #$B ield )(!o% *)!'e# (&'!&+&*!%", (&!*e ...-/000 despite the eorts to solve some o the problemsunderlined several years ago'

1n terms o importance, $rade acilitation issues clearly dominate "custom registration, customdocumentation, minimum import prices, import licences, import restrictions&, but $B$ "standards,/uality conormity, sanitary re/uirements other than S9S, marking and labelling& are still an importanteature o the most important consuming textile and clothing Asian markets "i'e' 9'4' hina, 1ndia,South Korea, Japan&'

Annexes 3

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1n the context o the Single ndertaking concluding the Doha Development Agenda 4ound and moreparticularly )ith reerence to paragraph +. o the *inisterial Declaration in Doha, the 9arties recordedtheir understanding that non!tari barriers related to all orms o hindrance to trade in the textile andclothing sector, include but are not limited to matters such as

Any additional duties on the import or sale o products o origin rom one 6$7 member in excess

o the custom duties set out in the Agreement, or any other taxes o e/uivalent eect, )hich are

higher than any such duties or taxes imposed on the production or sale o e/uivalent domesticgoods'

$echnical regulations or standards, or conormity assessment or certiication rules, procedures or

practices going beyond the purposes or )hich they are re/uired'

Any ormal or inormal minimum import price re/uirement, or other customs valuation rules,

procedures or practices giving rise to barriers to trade provided that transhipment problems aresolved'

4ules, procedures or practices or pre!shipment inspection that are discriminatory, non!transparent,

and excessively lengthy or the imposition o customs controls or the clearance o goods toshipments that have been sub8ect o pre!shipment inspection'

Excessively burdensome, costly or arbitrary rules, procedures or practices concerning the

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Ar'e!%&!Ar'e!%&! Au(%r"&Au(%r"& Br5&"Br5&" C!#C!# C)&"eC)&"e E',p%E',p% I!#&I!#& I!#o!e(&I!#o!e(& 6p!6p!

Re'&(%r%&o!7 #o*u2e!%%&o! o+ 4)&*)8 9 . : 0 .

Visas / documents/ Import licence 4 4 1 2 4 3

Compulsory Custom & control procedures2 2 1

Custom valuation / Minim. import price2 3 1 2 1

Clearance delays1 1 1 1 1

Origin requirement3 1 1 2

Classification1 1 1

1mport restrictions/uotas + +

Duties N charges other than taris + + + ? +

S%!#r# 7 %e*)!&*" re;u< o+ 4)&*)8 = 9 : > ? / :

Marking, a!elling3 1 3 1 1 3 3 1 1

Quality conformity1 1 1 2 1 1 1

Certification 1 1 1

Sanitary requirement1 1 1 1 1

Subsidies O + 2 + 2 2

1ntellectual property O + + + + +

Export restrictions O + +

4estriction on terms o payment 2

ompetitionDistribution + + + A1er'e TC 3ou!# #u%&e( 3-'0 2C'C 3?' +2'? 2-'0 30'3 CP'C 3' .'C

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Re'&(%r%&o!7 #o*u2e!%%&o! o+ 4)&*)8 9 9 > : : = 9

Visas / documents/ Import licence1 " 2 2 2 3

Compulsory Custom & control procedures 2 2 2 4 2 2 1

Custom valuation / Minim. import price1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1

Clearance delays1 1 1 1 1

Origin requirement 2 1

Classification 1 1 1

1mport restrictions/uotas + + + +

Duties N charges other than taris + + + 2 2 2 2 2 +

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Lery complex rules covering all textiles and clothing products' $hose measures are going beyond the simple announcedob8ective o consumer protection' 4ules are complex and the type o inormation re/uested is burdensome and controls are verydiicult' $here is a real discrimination )ith local producers' *easures could be summarised as ollo)s

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ustoms procedures omplex, excessive and time consuming ustoms rules and procedures "including re/uirement o visasrom *inistry o :oreign trade and local chamber o commerce&Q sampling is oten time!consuming, excessive and destructiveQin +C, Gdirect shipmentH only rom country o origin re/uired or many consumer goods, including )ool and cotton abrics'

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1nternal taxes and charges ustoms surcharges, inspection and service ees add bet)een 3 and . percentQ taris on many textileproducts increased in +C to -? percentQ some taris may be imposed at old applied rates )hich are higher than notiiedGboundH rates'

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4eerence pricing Arbitrary ustoms valuations and non!transparent ustoms duty assessment regulations @ under!invoicingassumed by Egyptian ustoms and declared values or imported textile and apparel goods increased by +0 to 30 percentQcommercial invoice must include yarn counts or )et and )arp yarns, type o dyestu and printing pigments used and packinglist must be stamped by appropriate banks'

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