Allegations that China's increased textile exports have disrupted the market order of other countries were denied by a spokesman with the China National Textile Industry Council, the overseas edition of the Beijing-based People's Daily reported yesterday.
Sun Huaibin, the council's spokesman, accused the United States and European Union of violating the rules of the World Trade Organization by imposing curbs on China's textile exports.
He cited cotton underclothes as an example. From January to March, China's overall exports of cotton underclothes grew only 17 percent, he said.
But according to US Customs' statistics, China's exports of cotton underclothes to the US soared 308 percent in the period. Still, the volume accounted for only half of those imported to the United States from Honduras during the same period.
It is, therefore, not accurate to say that China grabbed other nations' textile market share, Sun noted.
According to Sun, in the first three months, China's textile export value reached US$22.91 billion, a rise of 18.99 percent over the same period last year. In the first quarter last year, the year-on-year growth rate was 24.94 percent.