The introduction into the US legislature of the Textile Enforcement and Security Act of 2010 is a reminder that the abolition of bilateral textile trade quotas in 2005 did little to simplify thernbureaucratic task of controlling imports to Western markets.rnA complicated system of trade preferences, differential tariffs and rules of origin still leavesrnplenty or room for the unscrupulous to circumvent the rules. It needn't be a case of baldrnfalse statements, or even of dumping - sometimes shipping via a third country, and making arntoken modification to the product there, can be enough to secure smooth passage throughrnthe port of destination.
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