At least 9,457 workers in East Java is facing dismissal risk following on the decelerating of export performance in a number of companies in East Java. The dismissal risk is based on the report by eight companies of textile, footwear, wood, and paper in Sidoarjo, Probolinggo, Pasuruan, and Nganjuk.

As the Bush administration wraps up its 18-month long monitoring of apparel imports from Vietnam, it has concluded there is no evidence of dumping and sees no cause for self-initiating any anti-dumping investigations. Responding to pressure from the US textile industry and its supporters in Congress, the Department of Commerce began monitoring imports from Vietnam shortly after Vietnam was accepted into the World Trade Organization. At the time the program was started, US Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab said it would run only until the end of the Bush administration.