No agreement reached in the first day 5-hour China-EU textiles negotiation Friday,August 26,2005 Posted: 09:04 BJT(0104 GMT)  MOFCOM Holding-up of a large quantity of Chinese textiles by EU Customs was the focus in the first day China-EU textiles negotiation yesterday, officers of EU carried on the technical negotiation for more than 5 hours with officers of MOFCOM on the urgent issue of holding up of a large number of textiles in the ports in 25 countries of European Union. It is reported, the content of yesterday’s negotiation focus on reaching a consensus over the holding-up Chinese textiles but no agreement reached. Today, both sides will continue consultation on this issue in Ministry of Commerce. About 14：00 yesterday afternoon, expert panel sending by European Union arrived at Ministry of Commerce of China and began to a close-door negotiation with Chinese side. Last night, Ministry of Commerce issued a statement, saying that in this negotiation, representing Chinese side was Chief of foreign trade department of MOFCOM Lu JianHua, representing EU was Chief of Department of trade relieve of EU Fritz-Harald Wenig Chinese side expressed concern to holding-up Chinese textiles is not in the interests of EU trader and consumer, no further information was released.

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