Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen Wednesday called on leaders of the European Union (EU) to bring an early solution to a dispute over textile imports from China, said news dispatches from Copenhagen.

In a letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the EU Commission and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, Rasmussen said that he was compelled to present the issue to them as the textile dispute with China has posed a threat to the livelihood to Danish garment manufacturers, reported the Danish News Agency.

The prime minister said that Denmark opposes imposing quotas on Chinese textiles, as it has caused serious problems since its implementation in June, sending many Danish clothing companies scrambling for survival.

Rasmussen asked the EU leaders to immediately seek a long-term solution to the issue so as to break the deadlock caused by 75 million pieces of Chinese clothes stranded in European ports.

The EU has imposed import quotas on Chinese textiles since June, but Chinese textiles delivered before that period according to orders have been blocked at ports of European countries and are not able to get through the customs.

Denmark is a great trader of textile and clothing products in Northern Europe. China is Denmark's largest exporter of textile and clothing products, which takes 12.7 percent of Denmark's overall textile and clothing importations.

Source: Xinhua