Textile exports near US quotas

As talks with US trade officials begin Friday in Beijing, China has already exceeded, or is approaching, US quotas on some Chinese textile imports for 2005. The talks are a warm-up to high-level talks Monday under the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. The JCCT talks will cover a range of issues that recently have strained bilateral relations, including textile trade, China's ongoing IPR problem and US efforts to get Beijing to open its government procurement to foreign competition.