China has voluntarily reduced its clothing and textile exports to South Africa, but the South African clothing and textile industry has responded favorably towards this announcement. Mr. Aaron Searll CEO of South Africa's biggest clothing and textile manufacturer, Seardell Investment Holdings, said, a reduction in Chinese imports would help revive the domestic industry, on 20th January 2006. He said that clothing imports from China has grown to 40 % in the past
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| nine months. “It is overwhelming,” Mr. Searll said. Mr. Liu Guijin China's ambassador to South Africa on 19 January said, his country would limit export of garments and some textile items to South Africa. Mr. Searll, said more clarification was required on the form the limitations would take, and whether they would mean a percentage limit on the volume of imports, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO). “The industry also needs to know how long is it to be enforced for and who will enforce it,” he added. 
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