Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2261
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2004-03-30 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
Business records
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
Counterfeiting
Countervailing duties
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Developing countries
Due process of law
Dumping
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
Fraud
Free enterprise
Free trade
Freedom of association
Government Operations and Politics
Government ownership
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Health
Hours of labor
Human rights
Immigration
Import restrictions
Imports
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Latin America
Law
Legislation
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
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-30
text: 
Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act of 2004 - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide, beginning on October 1, 2003, and for each of the seven succeeding one-year periods, duty-free treatment for certain apparel items wholly assembled or knit-to-shape in Haiti if the President certifies to Congress that Haiti: (1) has established or is progressing toward specified political, economic, and social reforms; (2) does not engage in activities that undermine U.S. security or foreign policy; and (3) does not engage in gross violations of human rights or activities in support of international terrorism.
 
Provides for such provisions' retroactive application to certain entries.

action_date: 2004-07-16
text: 
Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act of 2004 - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide, beginning on October 1, 2003, and for each of the seven succeeding one-year periods, duty-free treatment for apparel items wholly assembled or knit-to-shape in Haiti (without regard to the country of origin of the fabrics, components, or yarns) if the President certifies to Congress that Haiti: (1) has established or is progressing toward specified political, economic, and social reforms; (2) does not engage in activities that undermine U.S. security or foreign policy; (3) does not engage in gross violations of human rights or activities in support of international terrorism; and (4) is meeting specified enforcement conditions aimed at preventing tariff or quota avoidance, customs evasion, unlawful transshipment, or false information or false document use in order to obtain such preferential treatment.
 
States that such preferential treatment shall be: (1) for the first year, 1.5 percent of the aggregate square meter equivalents of all apparel articles imported into the United States during the 12-month period beginning October 1, 2002; and (2) for each of the succeeding years, a quantity of apparel articles equal to the product of the percentage applicable during the previous 12-month period plus 0.5 percent (but not over 3.5 percent) and the aggregate square meter equivalents of all apparel articles imported into the United States during the 12-month period ending on September 30 of such year.
 
Applies such provisions to goods entered or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption on or after October 1, 2003, including a retroactive application to certain warehouse entries or withdrawals made between such date and the date of enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Message received in Senate: Returned to Senate pursuant to the request of the Senate and held at desk.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Senate requests return of papers with respect to S. 2261 by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-07-19
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2004-07-19
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-07-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-07-16
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-07-16
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-07-16
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
action_date: 2004-07-16
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8401-8402)
action_date: 2004-07-16
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8401-8402)
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6258-6260)
action_date: 2004-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3370-3371)
action_date: 2004-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3370)
action_date: 2004-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate