Vietnam says dumping apparel in US unfounded
Source: 09-MAY-2008 Intellasia | 07/May/2008 Lao Dong
May 9, 2008 - 7:00:00 AM The US Department of Commerce (DoC) on May 6 confirmed that the US has not found any evidence to investigate Vietnam's dumping garments and textiles on the US market.

DoC said that they made the above decision after considering figures of 12 months from its import monitoring programme for Vietnamese garments and textile products.

DoC said in the second consideration for figures of five groups of Vietnamese garments including trousers, shirts, underwear, swimsuits, and woollens imported into the US market within six months from August 2007 to January 2008, DoC found that all these five groups signalled no price dumping, hence, not threatening competitiveness of the US's local apparel companies.

Speaking at the press conference for this decision, David Spooner, DoC's Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, said that prices of apparel products imported from Vietnam are equal to prices of similar groups of goods imported from other US's partners such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Macao, Malaysia and Philippines and other countries. In some cases, apparels imported from Vietnam have higher prices.

He added that DoC will continue checking goods imported from Vietnam in order to ensure that Vietnam do not dump apparel products in the US market and threaten competitiveness of the US producers.

The monitoring programme for Vietnamese garments and textile products was applied from January 2007 when Vietnam entered the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Vietnam has repeatedly opposed this programme however the US said that this monitoring programme should be maintained by the end of the George Bush's presidency.