USTR BLOCKS TEXTILE DUTY SUSPENSIONS IN US CONGRESS
November 1st, 2010
BY EMMA JACKSON
A NUMBER of duty suspension proposals for textile and footwear will be missing from a miscellaneous tariff bill (MTB) heading to the US's lame duck congress this month, according to Nate Herman, vice president of international trade at the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA). "There are a lot of suspensions that we thought would be in the package, because they meet all the criteria, but they're not in there currently," he said. This is because the US Trade Representative office has argued the suspensions would undermine ...
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