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To communicate our concerns and interests to decision makers on Capitol Hill, our industry has become directly involved in electing members of Congress who understand the American textile manufacturing industry, and who will make decisions compatible with the interests of the textile industry. Congress can have a greater impact on the future of the American textile manufacturing industry than most decisions made by company management. Think about it. If the sub-Saharan African trade bill had been allowed to pass as initially proposed in the Congress, much of the apparel fabric business in the U.S. would have been destroyed. Without passage of the Caribbean trade bill requiring U.S. fabric and yarn to be in the apparel entering the U.S. market, the U.S. textile industry would lack adequate markets to compete with China and the rest of Asia when quotas expire in 2005.