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Vietnam News Briefs
May 2, 2007 Wednesday
TRADE US BUSINESSES STRONGLY PROTEST MONITORING PROGRAM AT 1ST HEARING
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from the VIETNAM NEWS BRIEFS, May 2, 2007 Many US businesses have raised strong concerns over the US Department of Commerce (DOC)'s decision to consider implementing a monitoring mechanism for textile and apparel imports from Vietnam at the first hearing on the issue in Washington D.C April 24, Vietnam News Agency reports. At the DOC hearing, up to 10 out of 12 ideas disagreed with the program, the agency said. Nguyen Duy Khien, chief of the Vietnamese Trade Ministry's representative office in the US, strongly protested against the mechanism. He de-scribed it as discrimination running counter to the most important guiding principles of the World Trade Organization (WTO). "This program also runs contrary to Article XXIII of the GATT agreement as it nullifies the benefits of the WTO and seriously prejudices the......
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