[MEMO/05/161]

Chinese textiles imports investigation: use of the urgency procedure
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson announced on 17 May 2005 that he will propose that the European Commission launch formal consultations with China for two of the nine categories of textile imports from China currently under investigation: T-shirts and flax yarn. This procedure is defined in the Textile Specific Safeguard Clause written into China’s 2001 Protocol of Accession to the WTO.