European Union Import Quotas on Chinese Textile and Clothing Exports in 2005: A Panic-Driven Commission or Rational Explanations?

Peter Nedergaard

doi:10.1007/s10842-008-0031-4

European Union Import Quotas on Chinese Textile and Clothing Exports in 2005: A Panic-Driven Commission or Rational Explanations?

Peter Nedergaard

Centre for European Politics

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Abstract

Based upon a narrative policy analysis, the aim of this paper is to answer two questions: (1) Why did the EU re-introduce import quotas on Chinese textile and clothing exports in 2005 after promising to lift them? (2) Why did the EU (partly) abolish these quotas a couple of months later? The rational choice inspired model put forward in this paper assumes that the EU's political system is a partial asymmetrical political equilibrium in which decisions taken by decision makers are a product of a supply and demand. By using this model, it is explained how the lifting of quotas on Chinese textile and clothing exports to WTO members on 1 January, 2005 and the political situation surrounding the French referendum on the Constitutional Treaty on 29 May, 2005, constitute key events in the decision making process.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade
Volume	9
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	17-47
ISSN	1566-1679
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10842-008-0031-4
Publication status	Published - 2009

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