Traduction de «Contremaîtresse à la transformation des textiles » (Français → Anglais) :

To assist these two industries in their efforts to compete effectively in the changing world markets, we are: continuing to work with our U.S. and Mexican counterparts to facilitate the access of textile and apparel companies to world-class inputs; reviewing proposals for an outward processing program that could provide new market opportunities for the textile and apparel industries; continuing to protect against the illegal transshipment of imported apparel and textile products; working through the employment insurance program to meet the needs of workers adjusting to changes in the industry and to ensure, through ongoing support for ...[+++] human resource sector councils, that employees obtain the skills they need to respond to the challenges of a rapidly changing labour market; and identifying and reducing tariffs on imported textile inputs used by the Canadian textile and apparel industries to improve the industry's cost competitiveness.

The report shall assess the impact of processing aid on producers, the processing industry and the market for textile fibres.

For example, if the Government of Canada allowed Canadian textiles to be processed in the West Indies, as are American textiles currently, this processed clothing still could not enter the US market because it would not be considered to have sufficient Canadian content to be covered by the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Under the Free Trade Agreement, nothing would prevent Canadian textiles processed in the West Indies from being recognized as North American in origin, just like clothing made from US textiles processed in the West Indies.

(3) Whereas these hindrances can be eliminated if the placing of textile products on the market at Community level is subject to uniform rules; whereas it is therefore necessary to harmonize the names of textile fibres and the particulars appearing on labels, markings and documents which accompany textile products at the various stages of their production, processing and distribution; whereas the term 'textile fibre` is to be extended to include strips or tubes with an apparent width of not more than 5 mm, which are cut out from sheets manufactured by extrusion of the polymers listed under items 19 to 38 and 41 of Annex I, and subseque ...[+++]ntly drawn out lengthwise;

Whereas these hindrances can be eliminated by laying down uniform rules for placing textile products on the market at Community level ; whereas it is therefore necessary to harmonise the names of textile fibres and the particulars appearing on labels, markings and documents which accompany textile products at the various stages of their production, processing and distribution;