To amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act relating to preferential treatment to apparel articles of lesser developed countries, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6142
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Automobile parts
Botswana
Bribery
Business records
Caribbean area
Child labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clothing
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation taxes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Department of Homeland Security
Depreciation and amortization
Developing countries
Due process of law
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee rights
Equality before the law
Executive Office of the President
Exports
Families
Forced labor
Foreign corporations
Fraud
Free enterprise
Free trade
Freedom of association
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Gross national product
Haiti
Health
Higher education
Hours of labor
Human rights
Immigration
Import restrictions
Imports
Income tax
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intellectual property
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Latin America
Law
Minimum wages
Namibia
Occupational health and safety
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Poverty
President and foreign policy
Presidential powers
Public corruption
Right of property
Rule of law
Social Welfare
State-sponsored terrorism
Subsidiary corporations
Tariff
Tariff preferences
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Taxation of foreign income
Textile fabrics
Textile industry
Trade agreements
Transportation and Public Works
Treaties
U.S. International Trade Commission
Valuation
Visas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
 Africa Investment Incentive Act of 2006 - Amends the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend duty-free treatment to imported apparel articles wholly assembled or knit-to-shape and wholly assembled, or both, in one or more lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries (regardless of the country of origin of the fabric or the yarn used to make such articles) in an amount not to exceed a certain percentage of all apparel articles imported into the United States in the preceding 12-month period. 
 
Authorizes the President to remove preferential treatment for fabric or yarn of an article that was determined on the basis of fraud to: (1) be eligible for such treatment; or (2) not be available in commercial quantity. 
 
Grants preferential treatment to textiles that are products of a lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African country and are wholly formed in one or more such countries from fibers, yarns, fabrics, fabric components, or components knit-to-shape that are the product of one or more such countries. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a sub-Saharan economic activity credit. 
 
Extends the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program. Authorizes limitations on waivers of competitive need limitation. 
 
Haitian Hemisphere Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006 - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide for five one-year periods of duty-free treatment for apparel articles wholly assembled or knit-to-shape in Haiti. Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide for import compliance. 
 
Grants five-year duty-free treatment to complying wire harness automotive components imported from Haiti. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that these provisions should be broadly interpreted in order to expand the textile and apparel trade between Haiti and the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House