Working Conditions of Women in the Textile Sector

However, I would promise him most emphatically that, if I do not receive adequate guarantees, we shall not be dispatching these consignments. ments.

Is it not the case that by hammering away at this one sector we are weakening our position regarding services, textiles, intellectual property and dumping?

Our first product was a textile where we analyzed 8,000 chemicals in the textile industry.

SAMLAND (S). (DE) Mr President, I rise to speak against this request and in favour of debating this item.

This opening up of markets, in itself so beneficial to the Community, will nevertheless have profound repercussions on the Community textile industry in terms of restructuring and loss of employ ment, especially in the peripheral regions where this industry is so important, in countries like Greece, Spain and Portugal.

CUNHA OLIVEIRA (S). (PT) Mr President, the vicissitudes through which the textile sector in the European Community is passing are reflected also in the embroidery industry.

The Governing Council expects the banking sector to make its contribution to restore confidence .

It is certainly appropriate to establish a balance between producers, workers and consumers in the textile sector.

One of the fundamental problems which ought to be dealt with in the new textile agreement is the. elimination of regional quotas at the end of 1992.

In the short term, one country may see agriculture as particularly important, another textiles and a third the services sector.

Apart from that, the transitional period should be divided into stages subject to the principle of progression, the first stage being longer for purposes of adaptation.

There is talk of regulating the financial sector, but governments are afraid to shake confidence. nbsp

On the contrary, I think that it is vigorously promoting the policy that it has been developing for the last four years for the purpose of making our agricultural products competitive at world level.

It's the world's biggest importer and has a negative trade balance.

The adjustment of the Community's policies to these objectives is the subject of a monitoring process, and, in addition, the implementation of Community program mes such as, for example, the TERMI programme, supports their implementation ftom various stand points.

Those objectives show that the strengthening of the GATT rules and disciplines is an indispensable condition for integrating the textile sector in the system of the General Agreement.

This rapid decline is one of the reasons for the growing poverty of many developing countries and the ever worsening debt crisis.

Sum Dany spoke with some of these textile workers, who recounted some of their stories of their working conditions.

At a time when thousands of farmers are on the edge of bankruptcy, when the Americans are hardening their position on textiles and on services, I see no reason to ditch the CAP.

And so in the reverse engineering process that we know about, and that we're familiar with, for the textile industry, the textile industry goes and unwinds the cocoon and then weaves glamorous things.

Herencia textil andina .

We worked like dogs down in the garment industry every single day.

Restoring trust should therefore start with an all out effort to promote and enforce ethical behavior throughout the industry.

The share of the developing countries in the Community's overall imports fell correspondingly over the same period from 46 to 30 , despite the growing importance of the newly industrialized countries in Asia.

At the same time sought to resolve the crisis in the textile and in 1954 formed the National Textile Machinery Factory Toyoda of Mexico, which later became National Steel (Sidena), which established the three core businesses anchor factory in Sahagún City.

On January 3, five striking garment workers were shot dead in Phnom Penh while peacefully demanding a minimum livable wage.

So it is urgent to devise an immediate programme for these industries mondernization, vocational training policies, aid for reconversion.

On this point a few specific proposals have indeed been formulated and I have listened with great attention to those Members who have, very rightly, broached this question.

My fifth and final comment is to ask what, in general terms, the outcome of this Round ought to be.

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And it is no less important to strengthen the Community machinery for giving aid to convert and redeploy the textile industry, particularly in the area of research.

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Assuming that the interests of the EU Member States in sensitive sectors are considered, the ESC is in favour of granting South Africa improved access in the short term to the agriculture, food manufacturing, meat processing, wood working and clothing sectors, inter alia.

However, the tough work environments that they face are often not noticeable from the outside, in particular in the textile industry, where the Ministry of Commerce estimates that 90 of workers in this sector are female, which totals approximately 300,000.

Moreover, the concept of freeing farmers from parasitical commercial operators and of directly supporting incomes that is being promoted in the Geneva talks is particularly constructive and will help to keep farmers on the land and give them pride in the quality and competitiveness of their products.

Initial damage to the confidence of the business class caused by higher taxes on the wealthy would be balanced by the prospect of 160 higher overall consumption.

This happens in the infotmatics, telecommunications and electronics sectots but not in the pharmaceutical sectot.

Today, I'm focusing on public sector corruption, which the private sector also participates in.

The AGC s action, rather than enhancing confidence in the judiciary, might weaken public confidence.

The Eurosystem will of course honour this confidence .

CHANTERIE (PPE). (NL) Mr President, one of the four difficult topics in the Uruguay Round is clearly the clothing and textile sector, which, in the matter of employment, is one of the European Community's most important industrial sectors.

More than a 1000 workers died when a textile factory collapsed in Bangladesh.

On the contrary , the challenges ahead call for particularly prudent and stability oriented fiscal policies to support private sector confidence .

I've lost faith in you.