On October 5, 2005, the US Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) announced its decision to consider nine requests submitted on behalf of a coalition of textile industry associations and a union representing textile and apparel workers for the reapplication of safeguard actions limiting imports on 13 textile products. The products involved are: combed cotton yarn; cotton knit shirts; men's and boys' woven shirts; cotton trousers; brassieres and other body supporting garments; underwear; other synthetic filament fabric; man-made fibre knit shirts; man-made fibre trousers; cheesecloth, batistes, lawns/voiles; men's and boys' wool suits; polyester filament fabric, light-weight; and other men's and boys' man-made fibre coats and women's and girls' man-made fibre coats.

CITA will now solicit public comments on the requests, in particular with regard to whether the US markets for these textile and apparel product categories are disrupted and/or threatened with market disruption, and if so, the role of Chinese-origin products in that disruption.

If CITA deems that imports of these textile and apparel product categories from China are disrupting or threatening to disrupt the US markets for the products, it will request consultations with China, with a view to avoiding such market disruption.