After eight months of investigation and 2000 pages of information, Brazil

At the end of last month (8), the Association (BrazilianTextileandApparelIndustryAssociation; ABIT) requested a defence clause from its government to curb the 82% of its total imports, which could lead to quota restrictions or impose additional duties on products imported into the country.

Although the date is uncertain, the case is awaiting investigation by the government.

AguinaldoDinizFilho, director of ABIT, said, "we are confident that our procedures are concrete and consistent with the provisions of WTO and can prove that imports are increasing rapidly and thus causing losses to the industry".

The request for the defence clause covers 60 textiles, accounting for 82% of the total imports of Brazil's garments.

The provisions of the WTO allow the use of defense provisions as trade defense measures, which can be temporarily imposed or imposed on market losses caused by increased trade volume or products found to disrupt the market.

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Reference to the defense clause requires a certificate of import surge (Surge) of a product, which confirms that the product involved has hurt the economy of the importing country, and the party directly injured can appeal for defensive measures.

ABIT pointed out that 2007-2011 in five Brazil

A sharp increase of 240%, or an increase of only 2010-2011, will increase by 42%, partly due to the fact that Asian countries are seeking to replace the market to absorb excess production because of the recession in the European Union and the US market.

"We are not boycotting imports," DinizFilho said. "We are against Asian predatory imports and the heavy burden that the industry can not afford.

In addition, the overvalued and devalued Renminbi of Brazil's US$1=Real2.0197 has fallen into the trap.

Under such circumstances, how to invest is useless. We can't wait for death. We want to fight to the end, because we have 1 million 500 thousand workers backing up, we have the responsibility to safeguard the labor rights of our labor force.