口译分类词汇：WTO术语英文解释（4）

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Textiles and clothing

ATC — The WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing which integrates trade in this sector back to GATT rules within a ten-year period.

carry forward — When an exporting country uses part of the following year’s quota during the current year.

carry over — When an exporting country utilizes the previous year’s unutilized quota.

circumvention — Avoiding quotas and other restrictions by altering the country of origin of a product.

CTG — Council for Trade in Goods — oversees WTO agreements on goods, including the ATC.

integration programme — The phasing out of MFA restrictions in four stages starting on 1 January

1995 and ending on 1 January 2005.

ITCB — International Textiles and Clothing Bureau — Geneva-based group of some 20 developing country exporters of textiles and clothing.

MFA — Multifibre Arrangement (1974-94) under which countries whose markets are disrupted by increased imports of textiles and clothing from another country were able to negotiate quota restrictions.

swing — When an exporting country transfers part of a quota from one product to another restrained product.

TMB — The Textiles Monitoring Body, consisting of a chairman plus ten members acting in a personal capacity, oversees the implementation of ATC commitments.

transitional safeguard mechanism — Allows members to impose restrictions against individual exporting countries if the importing country can show that both overall imports of a product and imports from the individual countries are entering the country in such increased quantities as to cause — or threaten — serious damage to the relevant domestic industry.

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