 China's textile industry is booming |
China has said one-sided US proposals are to blame for the breakdown in the latest round of talks on a textile export row between the two countries. China's commerce ministry said it could not agree to a deal which would harm its industry's "healthy development".
But the official China Daily newspaper went further, saying that the US had insisted on terms that "contain too few, if any, incentives".
The row over Chinese textile exports encompasses both the US and Europe.
Western nations have seen a flood of garments coming from China since a global tariff deal, the Multi Fibre Agreement, lapsed on 1 January.
'Discouraging'
The EU has already agreed to a temporary limit on import growth - albeit after an initial hitch which saw quotas fill up within weeks.
But the US talks are still dragging on in the face of pressure from US legislators, manufacturers and unions to slap sanctions on China.
The US has already used "safeguard" provisions built into China's 2001 accession into the World Trade Organization to cap some clothing imports, including bras and underwear - although China says that the US is mis-applying the rules.
After the talks in China failed on Thursday, the US said no deal on offer had met "the needs of our domestic manufacturers and retailers".
China, meanwhile, insists that all it wants is a deal which would create a "stable environment" for the textile trade.
The China Daily editorial said that the US proposals had simply not been acceptable - although it gave no details.
"Things would not have become so discouraging had it not been for the US insistence on terms that, as seen by the Chinese side, contain too few, if any, incentives for its highly competitive textile industry," it said.
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