Textile industrialists are expressing guarded satisfaction over the agreement on American textile import controls signed Tuesday night with the visiting United States mission. The official government statement last night said only that “it was agreed that Israel will not exceed fixed levels in two categories of knit and woven cotton apparel exports to the U.S.” Limitations were previously applied to 50 categories of cotton products. Reducing them to two liberates two-thirds of Israel’s current cotton exports, but that part of her trade is insubstantial. The most important question is what is going to happen to controls on wool and synthetics, which account for the bulk of Israel’s shipments.
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