Calls for quotas to stay go unheeded
30/08/2007
The government of Mexico is unlikely to push to keep quotas on Chinese footwear imports when World Trade Organisation sanctioned measures come to an end at the start of 2008.
One of the country's economics ministers, Carlos Francisco Arce Macías, told a meeting in parliament yesterday that the lifting of quotas was inevitable. He said all WTO members, including Mexico, had to respect the rules laid down by the trade organisation.
He recognised that the removal of quotas was likely to have a negative effect on the local footwear industry, but he argued that a failure to respect China and accept it as a trading partner would have even more serious consequences for Mexico.
