With an aim to devise some mechanism to extend the cap on Chinese apparel import in the country beyond 2009, the domestic textile industry of Bangladesh has been advised to lobby the Congress and administration. The proposal was made at a meeting of officials of Bangladesh Embassy in United States and the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition and the National Council of Textile Organizations in Washington.

US has imposed quota limit on Chinese clothing imports to the country in September 2008, as the US market for brassieres and synthetic fabric is being disrupted by surging Chinese imports. By imposition of the cap the giant China was allowed to export no more than 7.5% import of those products to the US market. However, US are likely to lift the ban before January 2009. Least developed countries including 'apparel superstars' Bangladesh and Cambodia, whose textile sector grew on depending different factors, are also fearing a big blow once the cap is withdrawn by US from Chinese goods import.

The Bangladesh embassy officials sought cooperation of the US textile owners to help passage of the NPDA 2007 bill allowing the LDC goods free of duty. US lawmakers and manufacturers are of the opinion that China's currency policies and Government subsidies give its exporters an unfair advantage and have led to a huge US trade deficit with China.