Trade and Industry Department, Hong Kong (TID) announces that, The China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles (the Chamber) issued some operational guidelines concerning the application and collection of the provisional quantitative limits for textile exports through consultative bidding on 11 August 2006.

For details of the "Implementation Details on the Tender for Quantitative Limits of Textile Exports", please refer to CIC No. 379/2005 dated 17 September 2005.

For details of the "Notice Concerning the Invitation for Consultative Bids for Provisional Quantitative Limits for Textile Exports to the European Union and the United States in 2006" and the results of the consultative bids, please refer to CIC No. 295/2006 dated 1 August 2006 and CIC No. 313/2006 dated 14 August 2006.

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