The U.S. government has ended all pending decisions to impose quotas on Chinese textile imports and let go part of the goods blocked at the port, said the official website of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Friday.

The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreement of the U.S. (CITA) announced Wednesday at the local time that all 24 requests made by US industry groups for quotas on China's textile imports had been scrapped in light of the agreement signed by the two governments two weeks ago.

Those requests, put in from November 2004 to October 2005, had been accepted by CITA for further investigation.

China and the United States reached an agreement on the textile issue on Nov. 8 in London. According to the agreement, the U.S. will set quotas on 21 categories of Chinese textile products through 2008.

CITA has notified the U.S. Customs to let go blocked textile goods except for socks that reached the US port before November 8, from November 28 to December 2.

As for other textile goods still blocked at the port, CITA said that they will be released in batches according to US Customs regulations.

Source: Xinhua