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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to confront the Commissioner with a statement from her fellow-Commissioner Mr Mandelson. He recently said to the French newspaper
that ‘according to a study commissioned by the OECD, the omission of the textile quota will save each family EUR 270 annually’. Unfortunately, Mr Mandelson ignored the thousands of families who, as a result of the abolition of the quota and of the resulting Chinese ‘tidal wave’, will lose their jobs, if they have not already done so. Moreover, Mr Mandelson has drawn rather hasty conclusions, because he overlooks, whether consciously or not, the fact that the expected falls in price will affect only a very limited range of textile and clothing products, and will therefore have a very limited effect in general. I am surprised by, and very disappointed with, Mr Mandelson’s ultra-liberal discourse, but that is just by the by. I have a few concrete questions and suggestions.
First of all, can you confirm that the Commission will respond and take action once it is proven that the Chinese products end up on the European market at dumping prices? That can be done on the basis of the price of raw materials on the international markets. The Commission only needs the will to do this.
Secondly, Commissioner, what safeguard measures – and this subject has already been expressly mentioned here – would you consider in order to prevent certain product categories in Europe from being wiped off the map as a result of unfair competition?
Finally, what concrete steps can you take, and indeed, are you prepared to take, to ensure that in China too, the basic social and ecological threshold standards are respected? You could, for example, make certain practices public in the context of a naming and shaming information campaign, to mention but an example. Finally, Commissioner, it is reported that last month’s textile imports from China increased considerably, not to say spectacularly. I hope that the Commissioner will not fob us off again with a bromide that our textile industry has had ten years to adjust, for that would be the height of oversimplification."@en1
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