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"We Moderates voted today against the above-noted report. The abolition of quotas for the trade in textiles, together with China’s accession to the WTO, have made the issue a very topical one. We are opposed both to the protectionist measures introduced in the spring and to those proposed in this report.
Those who pay the price for the type of protectionism recommended by the report are consumers, who have to pay higher prices; other industries, which have more expensive inputs; and whole regions, which forfeit structural transformation and, thereby, competitiveness – consequences that have become clear to ever more Europeans during the summer.
In northern Europe, the textile trade was deregulated as early as the Seventies and Eighties, with big advantages for quite a few countries in southern Europe. This was a painful process for many regions in northern Europe, but it led to a new competitiveness. It is regrettable that those countries that gained so much from this deregulation are not themselves prepared to undergo the same process.
We have known for 10 years that, in 2005, we should be obtaining new arrangements, no longer involving quotas, for the world trade in textiles. The textile industry has had every opportunity to prepare itself. A few more years of trade barriers will not help the European textile industry."@en1
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