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[Matthews wonders if Google will go the way of Eli Whitney.] The cotton gin changed America, ... It revitalized the South and boosted the British textile industry, and had a thousand other effects. And this earned the inventor, Eli Whitney, almost nothing.

Mark Matthews

We've definitely been following apparel and textile manufacturing production leaving the United States and going to Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean.

Will Motchar

If it's viable, we will then look for investors, because it's costly. We will very much want to have more investors in the textile sector.

Susan Muhwezi

It looks like this is a very good deal for the U.S. textile industry, ... Our objectives were tight limits on our sensitive categories and expanded product coverage. The U.S. government achieved both of those results.

Cass Johnson

The two textile agreements eliminate most uncertainties faced by Chinese clothing enterprises when exporting goods to two of the most important overseas markets.

Mei Xinyu

The negative effect of textile export quotas imposed by the US and Europe has been evident since August last year. Now China is again being accused of dumping iron products and shoes in the same countries, so new anti-dumping quotas may be imposed soon.

Daniel Chan

Those buildings adjacent will have trailers placed in front of them plus sealed textile blast curtains to protect that glass.

Steve Pettigrew

Our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade. But the United States will have no hesitation in walking away from a bad deal.

David Spooner

I am seriously looking at relocating my textile units to Bangladesh as the cost of manufacturing here is going beyond our control.

Shabbir Ahmed

These are not people you might associate with firearms ownership or competition. We have a lot of diversity in the sport today. We have dental assistants, bank managers, teachers and textile workers. We have teenagers and people who are in their 70s.

Alan Deal

Developed countries should be aware that textile integration is an inevitable trend and to have quotas is not correct.

Bo Xilai

We encourage the U.S. to move forward in implementing the cases with final decisions pending by close of business today (Wednesday). The proper use of the safeguard is necessary to offset China's unfair trade practices that have caused substantial job loss in the U.S. textile sector.

Auggie Tantillo

We will continue to consult with the Chinese government to find a solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade.

Jim Leonard

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Alvin Toffler

China's proposal is still unacceptable to the US textile industry in terms of breadth of coverage and in length -- number of years covered.

Auggie Tantillo

The US textile industry will file as many safeguard cases as it takes to halt these job-killing trade practices.

Auggie Tantillo

We will send an appeal to the Prime Minister tomorrow for re-imposing the ban so that the country's textile sector could be saved from ruination.

Ma Awal

We maintain our long-standing position that while the textile industry wants a comprehensive agreement, any agreement must be in the industry's best interest. No deal is better than a bad deal.

Auggie Tantillo

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Walter Benjamin

It was love at first sight. He has an unbelievable feel for silhouettes and colors and we bring the entire textile technology, for which we're known.

Heiko Storz

We need to have our own fabric source by then, otherwise all these mushrooming textile factories will close shop.

Susan Muhwezi

There have been constructive talks between the E.U. and China, and the two sides are broadly in the same place about how to deal with the overshoot in certain textile quotas. But there are still important aspects still to be reached.

Peter Power

One of the most noticeable aspects of 2005 was the series of changes to world textile rules allowing China to export more clothing and footwear. We're still seeing the affects of that filtering through.

Andrew Milligan

The figures on Chinese textile imports that we have from Customs and Excise and the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) show no major increase.

Industry Minister Fahmi Idris

I believe this textile agreement is an example of how the U.S. and China do have the ability to resolve tough trade disputes in a manner that benefits both countries.

Robert Portman

I will urge India if our apparel quota could be increased. I will also seek Indian investment in our local textile, clothing and knit sectors.

Fazlul Haque

Next week's textile negotiations are a crucial test for this administration. The U.S. must not create yet another textile agreement that leads domestic manufacturers to believe that they have a right to permanent protection.

Laura Jones

The U.S. has been using its right under China's WTO accession to invoke safeguards in cases of market disruption or the threat of market disruption. However, our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade.

David Spooner

In the last two months, the ups and down in the consumer spending numbers have been mostly driven by swings in the textile and leather sector.

Nicolas Sobczak

Tex Tech is a leader in the textile industry and the company and its employees deserve to be singled out as the best in the business. Not only is Tex Tech setting the bar and influencing textile production all over the world, they also have local influence by helping to propel Maine's technology sector forward.

Governor Baldacci

They hope an agreement will make the situation clear, so as to create a steady development environment for the Sino-US textile trade.

Cao Xinyu

Textile job losses overwhelm the good things.

William Mezger

No agreement in the talks shows the US side does not change its previous stance, and the textile trade prospect between the two countries becomes more uncertain.

Sun Huaibin

Both the US and China have compromised in reaching this textile pact.

Sun Huaibin

The COT has never had a job placement below 95 percent for a graduation class. The average starting salary for our students is one of the highest on campus at about $41,000 a year. Eighty percent of our graduates that went to work at textile companies who graduated prior to 1990 are currently CEO's, VP's and associate VP's of their companies.

Kent Hester

The Pakistani textile millers are very serious about investing in Bangladesh. They have unofficially informed us of relocating some of their units to Bangladesh.

Ma Awal

At least in the sphere of textile trade, China and the EU depend on and value each other.

Bo Xilai

MOFCOM held a conference on Tuesday among major domestic textile exporters, listening to the obstacles they encountered in textile trade with the United States as well as suggestions and demands for future trade.

Cao Xinyu

Though the prospect of Sino-US textile trade remains unclear, there is no evidence that these businesses will stop expanding production.

Cao Xinyu

This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile.

Craig Allen

Though China's textiles and clothes might impact local textile manufacturers, they will bring more profits to local purchasers, retailers and consumers.

Han Licheng

When the textile and cloth industries get up and running, we will cut our delivery time from 90 to at least 45 days.

Peter Klose

We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile industry in terms of increasing orders and production.

Erik Autor

We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004.

Erik Autor

The problem is that the textile issue between China and the United States is mixed with many other factors.

Zhao Yumin

I'm really surprised this has become so troublesome. The U.S. depends on imports for many textile categories, so the two sides should be able to find more common ground.

Zhao Yumin