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To establish an earned import allowance program under Public Law 109-53, and for other purposes.
7/22/2008--Introduced. Amends the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish an earned import allowance program, which shall provide earned import allowance certificates to any producer or entity controlling production of eligible apparel articles in an eligible country, based on specified elements. Declares that eligible apparel articles wholly assembled in an eligible country and imported directly from an eligible country shall enter the United States free of duty, without regard to the source of the fabric or yarns from which the articles are made, if such apparel articles are accompanied by an earned import allowance certificate that reflects the amount of credits equal to the total square meter equivalents of fabric in such apparel articles.
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- 07/30/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 07/29/2008 - Mr. McDermott moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 07/29/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules.
- 07/29/2008 - DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6560.
- 07/29/2008 - DEBATE - The House resumed debate on H.R. 6560.
show all actions- 07/30/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 07/29/2008 - Mr. McDermott moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 07/29/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules.
- 07/29/2008 - DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6560.
- 07/29/2008 - DEBATE - The House resumed debate on H.R. 6560.
- 07/29/2008 - On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- 07/29/2008 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 07/29/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7272-7276)
- 07/29/2008 - On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7272-7274)
- 07/22/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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