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EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson said he would hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Bo Xilai starting this week after imports of Chinese pullovers and trousers overshot agreed limits for this year.
But although he would "be in touch" with Bo as early as this week, no decision on what action to take would be made until early next month, he said Tuesday.
"Final decisions, including some flexibility on the future management of the quotas will not be taken until early September and will be resolved in agreement with the Chinese authorities," Mandelson said. However, he said he hoped "some flexibility" on the quotas for pullovers could be found in the meantime.
Earlier, the European Commission, which handles trade issues for the EU's 25 member states, said that Chinese imports of trousers to the EU had been found Monday to have surpassed a quota for this year agreed between EU and Chinese authorities in June.
Chinese pullover imports were earlier determined to have exceeded the limit.
The EU and China headed off a trade war June 10 when Mandelson and Bo agreed in Shanghai to limit the growth of 10 Chinese textile products.
In another development, U.S. and Chinese officials would hold textile trade talks next week in San Francisco, but the Bush administration had not decided whether to formally seek a comprehensive textile trade deal with China, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said Wednesday.
The Aug. 16-17 talks are the latest in a series of "consultations" required under world trade rules after the United States imposed emergency import curbs in May on billions of dollars of clothing from China, said John Stubbs, a spokesman for the Trade Representative's office.
