China’s Experience Under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC)
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This paper analyzes China’s experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a unique new database that tracks U.S. trading partners’ performance under the quota regimes established by the global Multifiber Arrangement (1974 to 1995) and subsequent Agreement on Textiles andClothing(1995to2005). We findthatChinawas relativelymoreconstrained underthese regimes than other countries and that, as quotas were lifted, China’s exports grew disproportionately.