{"id":176,"date":"2003-11-18T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T22:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/quota_time\/"},"modified":"2003-11-18T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T22:27:03","slug":"quota_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/quota_time\/","title":{"rendered":"Quota Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/nm\/20031118\/bs_nm\/trade_china_textiles_dc_4\">Another great stroke<\/a> by our &#8220;free trade&#8221; administration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bush administration has decided to set new quotas on imports of Chinese clothing to stop a surge of shipments, U.S. Commerce Undersecretary Grant Aldonas announced on Tuesday.<br \/>\nAldonas said that under trade rules with China, the United States can cap China&#8217;s exports of brassieres, knit fabrics and dressing gowns at 7.5 percent above shipments over the past year or so. During that time, China&#8217;s exports of the textile products have surged. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a rather interesting method of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/11\/20031108.html\">promoting  free trade agreements<\/a>, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/quota_time\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Quota Time\"><p>Another great stroke by our &#8220;free trade&#8221; administration: The Bush administration has decided to set new quotas on imports of Chinese clothing to stop a surge of shipments, U.S. Commerce Undersecretary Grant Aldonas announced on Tuesday. Aldonas said that under trade rules with China, the United States can cap China&#8217;s exports of brassieres, knit fabrics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}