Polyester/cotton shirts
(these are all the statistics available)
Statistics provided at May 1967 consultations
Hong Kong exports of polyester/cotton shirts to Canada
October 1965 to October 1966
ANNEX A(1)
72,000 dozen
100,000 dozen
October 1966 to October 1967
Japanese export restraint level expected to be 50,000 in 1967
Canada production (period unspecified
475,000 dozen
perhaps an estimate for 1967)
Hong Kong's share of total imports 67% and of consumption 16% (disregarding
Statistics provided at 1969 consultations
exports)
Quotas covering imports of polyester/cotton shirts in to Canada (in each case the
most recent period known is given)
Hong Kong
1st October 1968
year commencing
Japan
- 1968
Taiwan
polyester
and
75,000 dozen
polyester/cotton
77,140 dozen
polyester/cotton
year commencing
10th October 1968
30,088 dozen
Korea
- 1968
Malaysia
polyester/cotton
22,145 dozen
woven man-made fibre
*
year commencing
1st September 1968
20,867 dozen
Singapore
1968
18,000 dozen
cotton and polyester/cotton
cotton and
polyester/cotton
Canadian import statistics
Imports of woven polyester/cotton shirts* in January/May 1969
of which
361,000 dozen
Japan
168,000 dozen
Hong Kong
109,000 dozen
Korea
35,000 dozen
Taiwan
17,000 dozen
Malaysia Singapore
11,000 dozen
11,000 dozen
*This import classification, which was introduced in 1969 (polyester/cotton
shirts not being separately recorded in earlier years) covers polyester/cotton blends of 1 94% cotton (and therefore by implication 6 - 99% polyester). These import figures therefore include consignments which fall outside the polyester/cotton shirt quotas, which in the case of Hong Kong covers blends in which polyester predominated, and in the case of Japan blends in which 50% or more is synthetic.
/Production