By Deborah Belgum
In previous negotiations, U.S. representatives—with the backing of the U.S. textile industry—had proposed eliminating TPLs. In the U.S. Trade Representative’s fact sheet, it said the Trump administration did want to limit rules that allow for some use of non-NAFTA inputs in textile and apparel trade, but it didn’t go into specifics.
“They [the U.S. trade negotiators] have been pretty silent on TPLs,” said Julie Hughes, the president of the U.S. Fashion Industry Association, a Washington, D.C., trade group representing apparel importers and retailers. “And that has been one of the major concerns for us. I have heard different things from different people who say there will only be minor changes.”
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