Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-489
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Access to health care
Administration of justice
American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Bribery
Capital
Caribbean area
Child labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clothing
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Developing countries
Due process of law
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee rights
Equality before the law
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Forced labor
Foreign investments
Free enterprise
Free trade
Freedom of association
Government Operations and Politics
Government ownership
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Health
Hours of labor
Human rights
Import restrictions
Imports
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Latin America
Law
Loans
Minimum wages
Misconduct in office
Nontariff trade barriers
Occupational health and safety
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Poverty
President and foreign policy
Price regulation
Public corruption
Public health
Right of property
Small business
Social Welfare
State-sponsored terrorism
Subsidies
Tariff
Tariff preferences
Terrorism
Textile fabrics
Trade agreements
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act of 2003 - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to allow specified apparel articles that are imported directly into the customs territory of the United States from Haiti to enter free of duty if Haiti has satisfied the requirements of this Act.
Declares that such articles include apparel articles that are wholly assembled or knit-to-shape in Haiti exclusively from fabric components and yarns formed in: (1) the United States; (2) a country that is party to a free trade agreement with the United States on January 1, 2003, that enters into a free trade agreement with the United States subject to trade promotion authority, or that has been designated as a beneficiary country; and (4) any country if the fabrics or yarns are designated as not being commercially available in the United States.
Specifies the quantity of articles to which such preferential treatment shall extend.
Declares that Haiti shall be eligible for such preferential treatment if the President determines and certifies to Congress that Haiti has met specified conditions, including: (1) establishing or making progress toward establishing a market-based economy that protects private property rights, the rule of law, the elimination of barriers to U.S. trade and investment, economic policies to reduce poverty, a system to combat corruption and bribery, and protection of internationally recognized worker rights; (2) not engaging in activities that undermine U.S. national security or foreign policy interests or gross violations of internationally recognized human rights; (3) not providing support for international terrorism; and (4) cooperating in international efforts to eliminate human rights violations and terrorist activities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4940-4941)
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1942-1943)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2975)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate