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Following the floods that devastated a vast portion of Pakistan’s territory last summer, the Commission tabled a proposal to grant the country extensive autonomous trade preferences in the form of exemption from customs duties, affecting 75 product lines of interest to Pakistan: essentially textiles and clothing. This measure, presented as temporary, but for a period of three years, would have a major impact on Portuguese textiles, so I voted against this report. However, since the report has been adopted, I successfully advocated limiting the duration of the trade preferences to one year from the date these measures come into force, in order to minimise the repercussions on Portuguese textiles. The period could potentially be extended following a thorough assessment of the impact on European textiles, to be presented by the Commission. Finally, I also voted for – again thinking of Portuguese textiles – the introduction of a safeguard clause, which provides for the re-establishment of common customs tariff duties on a given product at any time if it is being imported from Pakistan under conditions that cause, or threaten to cause serious problems for an EU producer of similar or directly competing products."@en1
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