Itcb.org
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International Textiles and Clothing Bureau - Home
Contact
- ITCB
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- geneva
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- +41.229075956
Description
ITCB is an intergovernmental organisation of developing countries, exporters of textiles and clothing. It is unique in the sense that it is the only international organisation exclusively of developing countries; managed and financed solely by them.
Founded in 1984, ITCB arose in response to the long-running restrictions imposed by major developed countries on imports of textiles and clothing from developing countries. In the face of the unhappy experience with these restrictions, developing countries decided to join hands and work together to secure their elimination.
International trade in textiles and clothing was managed since 1961 under a separate set of rules, deviating from the basic principles of GATT/WTO. Initially incorporated in the so-called Short-term Cotton Arrangement in 1961, these rules continued to become ever more restrictive, first, under the Long-term Arrangement and, later, the Multi-fibre Arrangement.
