The success of the entire Uruguay Round of the GATT depends considerably upon the success of the negotiations on the liberalization of world trade in textiles and clothing, since a number of developing countries have made their support for progress in the negotiations on services or safeguards...

Talks are at present in progress in Geneva among 51 industrialised and developing countries on a renewal of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) which expires at the end of 1981. The preliminaries of the negotiations have already revealed the existence of massive conflicts of interest not only...

In implementing the Multilateral Textile Agreement the European Community opted for the instrument of export self-restraint agreements which - in contrast to unilaterally imposed restrictions - may already be concluded before a threatening market disruption has actually materialized. On the...