Announcement
02 Apr 2015
April 2nd, 2015 - The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced that the cotton import quota would be limited to the WTO-agreed level of one-third total national production capacity.
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1 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
0 liberalising
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Implementation date
01 Jan 2015
Revocation date:
12 Jun 2018
Announced: 02 Apr 2015
Import quota
After relaxing import quotas in 2014, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce on the 2nd of April 2015 officially announced that the import quota would be lowered to the WTO-agreed level of 894,000 tonnes, ...
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