NANJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- "We hope China and the United States would reach agreement on textile trading, so that our clients can eliminate their strong uncertainty," Wei Hua, a saleswoman of a textile enterprise in east China's Jiangsu Province, told Xinhua.

Wei complained that she has not received any order for nearly three months, her department's business has declined by 50 percent from that of 2004, and her company's textile goods have piled up at some ports of EU countries.

Since the European Union and the United States again set ceilings for Chinese textile exports this year, not a few Chinese textile enterprises have been trapped in difficult conditions. Wei told Xinhua that she got an order earlier this year but could not export the textile goods because of the quota, and her company will lose 600,000 yuan (about 75,000 US dollars) for each container.

Before the EU set new quotas, the Jiangsu Menglan Group sent its last batch of woollen sweaters to European ports. But the group never expected that the EU and the United States would again impose quotas on Chinese textile products only four months after the scraping of the textile quotas worldwide.

"Based on an optimistic anticipation, my group signed a large number of orders and agreements with our clients last year," said He Ming, vice president of Menglan Group, a textile enterprise in Jiangsu.

"We have to stop export the textile products because of the quotas imposed by the EU, which caused a direct loss of 6 million US dollars to our group."

The reimposed quotas have put Chinese textile enterprises with great production capacity into a dire situation, for they have to suspend production or even face bankruptcy.

Encountered with the anti-dumpling investigation by EU, the Wujiang Canhua Import & export Co, Ltd lost 8 million US dollars of business, accounting for 30 percent of the company's total export, and the company virtually gave up the EU market.

General manager GU Yiming said that production and sales of the company were severely impaired and most workshops stopped production in the most harsh period.

Bai Jinliang, vice president of the Jiangsu Shuntian International Group, said 40 to 45 percent of the group's products are targeted at the US market, and they all fall under the quota restrictions.

According to statistics from China's General Administration of Customs, China's textile export totaled 50.36 billion US dollars in the first half year, of which the textile export to the United States reached 8.34 billion dollars.

To tackle the textile disputes, China and the United States held three rounds of talks on June 17, July 8, and Aug. 17, respectively. The two sides failed to reach any agreement yet.

China and the United States kicked off their fourth round of textile talks Tuesday morning in Beijing. Enditem