Herencia textil andina .

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

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.

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

Working Conditions of Women in the Textile Sector

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.

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

This is a textile mill doing synthetic silk, an oil byproduct.

This should not exclude specific programmes involving additional and special financing from the structural funds, as indeed Mrs Peijs proposes.

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.

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

VERNIER (RDE). (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, one week ago exactly, a textile group announced the closure in my own town of Douai of a cotton spinning mill.

It means just this everything for me and nothing for anyone else.

Just ask any professional, university educated descendant of a nineteenth century textile artisan.

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

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.

At the same time, I hope that the Council and the Commission will accept that Parliament should be represented at the rounding off conference, and that prior to that they will consult Parliament on the results of the negotiations within the framework of a specific legal flowing either from the Treaty or from the Stuttgart Declaration.

What will be left of Europe tomorrow ? The Commission must undertake resolutely to follow the lines it has set itself to protect Europe's industries and particularly the textile and clothing industry.

Lyubov Popova was also a member of the textile faculty, and in 1922, when hired to design fabrics for the First State Textile Print Factory, Popova and Stepanova were among the first women designers in the Soviet textile industry.

Airtex Design Group is moving part of its textile production from China back to the United States.

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.

This is a textile where they're doing shirts Youngor, the biggest shirt factory and clothing factory in China.

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

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Hopefully the abandonment of the Multifibre Arrange ment will produce a resurgence of competition and a fall in prices.

BOCKLET (PPE). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, agriculture is only one of 15 areas that are the subject of the current GATT negotiations.

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.

And there were none. In one fell swoop, Mr. Teszler had integrated the textile industry in that part of the South.

In her excellent report Mrs Peijs has shown that a negotiable transitional period is the right route to this.

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

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

At the same time the livelihoods of millions of small family farms in Europe will be put at risk.

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

Prices fell in clothes and textile articles production (2.5 percent) as well as in the production of electric machineries, apparatus (0.3 percent).

Women were highly prized for their textile knowledge and skills through the development of their woven textiles, women played important economic and cultural roles.

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.

As well as the overall skeleton agreements, there are also branch wide wage agreements, e.g. for textiles, and plant agreements in large enterprises.

After her graduation, Kirchherr enrolled in the Meisterschule für Mode, Textil, Graphik und Werbung in Hamburg, as she wanted to study fashion design but demonstrated a talent for black and white photography.

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.

Pushing the developing countries out of our markets is not only anti social, it is also short sighted in terms of economic policies.

As you know, after the US Congress had approved a very restrictive textiles act, President Bush pronounced his veto on it a few days ago.

But when, say, the Luddites of the early nineteenth century protested against newly developed textile machinery by smashing it, the authorities did not intervene to limit new technologies.

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.

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

This is what it will take to preserve the 65 000 jobs in the textile industry in the Nord Pas de Calais, the 365 000 jobs in France, and to reverse the rhythm of job losses in the sector for the Community as a whole, which stands today at nearly 6 .