USTR Sets Oct. 13 Effective Date for CAFTA Textile Rules of Origin
The U.S. Trade Representative set Oct. 13 as the date on which the equivalent amendments to textile and apparel rules of origin of the Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) enter into force in all other CAFTA-DR Parties, it…
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said in a Federal Register notice scheduled for Sept. 26. The changes are pursuant to a law signed by President Obama on Aug. 10 that also extended the third-country fabric provision of the African Growth and Opportunity Act and extended the import ban for Burma. The modifications apply to goods of a CAFTA-DR Party that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the date that the USTR determines is the first date on which the equivalent amendments to the rules of origin to the CAFTA-DR have entered into force in all other CAFTA-DR Parties, now set for Oct. 13. Further information: Caroyl Miller, caroyl_miller@ustr.eop.gov. (See ITT's Online Archives 12071912 for summary of the underlying legislation.)