乌兹别克纺织品欲得到欧盟的优惠待遇

Uzbek textiles ready to get favourable treatment in EU

Textile products from Uzbekistan are almost set to receive customs privileges in EU countries, as the Oliy Majlis, the upper house of the Uzbek parliament, has ratified the ‘textiles protocol’ to the partnership and cooperation agreement (PCA) between the EU and Uzbekistan. The European Parliament had ratified the protocol in December 2016.

In accordance with the procedure, the law ‘On ratification of the protocol to the EU-Uzbekistan PCA and bilateral trade in textiles’ would now be submitted to Uzbek president for signing, as per a Trend News Agency report.

The ‘textiles protocol’ document envisages customs privileges while processing, supplying and transit of Uzbek textile products to the EU countries.

Up till now, the most favoured nation treatment as part of the PCA has not been applied to the import of textile products from Uzbekistan. There was also a double licensing system when issuing permits for the import of textile products from Uzbekistan to the EU.

The European Parliament had ratified the protocol in December last year after Uzbekistan complied with the requirement to eradicate child labour in cotton harvesting.

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乌兹别克纺织品欲得到欧盟的优惠待遇

乌兹别克斯坦的纺织产品几乎都要获得欧盟国家的关税优惠，因为乌兹别克斯坦上议院的Oliy Majlis已经批准了欧盟和乌兹别克斯坦之间合作协议(PCA)中的“纺织品协议”。欧洲议会于2016年12月批准了该协定。

根据一份新闻机构的报道，按照程序，这项关于欧盟-乌兹别克斯坦-PCA和双边纺织品贸易协定的法律将被提交给乌兹别克斯坦总统签署。

“纺织品协议”文件设想了处理、供应和运送乌兹别克纺织品到欧盟国家时的海关特权。

到目前为止，作为PCA的一部分，最惠国待遇还没有被用于从乌兹别克斯坦进口的纺织品。在从乌兹别克斯坦到欧盟的纺织品进口许可中，也有一个双重许可证制度。

去年12月，在乌兹别克斯坦遵从了棉花收获取消使用童工的要求之后，欧洲议会批准了该议定书。