21.   Two other Japanese industries, necktie and towel manufacturers, have petitioned for protection from Chinese imports the last few days.

22.   U.S. consumers benefit from Chinese imports in the form of lower prices, trade experts say.

23.   Washington wanted the clause to protect the American textile industry from cheap Chinese imports, but China has seized on the provision to protect its own threatened industries.

24.   A team of agricultural officials will visit the United States to discuss increasing Chinese imports of fruit, the official English-language China Daily reported Sunday.

25.   Another would help protect U.S. companies from surges in Chinese imports.

26.   China has drastically reduced purchases of Australian wool because of increased enforcement of Chinese import duties and value-added tax payments that Chinese buyers had previously been evading.

27.   China warned the U.S. Congress Thursday not to use low tariff trade treatment for Chinese imports as a tool to press for political change.

28.   Chinese imports, labor unions complain, destroy U.S. jobs.

29.   Details were not reported, but one sticking point had been a timeline for Mexico to phase out protective duties on Chinese imports that violate WTO rules.

30.   Earlier this year, the administration threatened to publish a list of sanctions against Chinese imports in a dispute over theft of U.S. copyrights and patents.