Post-Conflict Trade Recovery Act
Latest action · Jun 16, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 14, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Post-Conflict Trade Recovery Act - Authorizes the President to designate any country emerging from political instability, civil strife, or armed conflict as a beneficiary country if the country: (1) has established, or is making continual progress toward establishing, a market-based economy, the rule of law and the right to due process, political pluralism, and other specified economic and political goals; (2) does not engage in activities that undermine U.S. national security or foreign policy interests; (3) is a signatory of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, does not engage in gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, and is making continuing and verifiable progress on the protection of internationally recognized human rights; (4) is not listed by the U.S. Department of State as a state sponsor of terrorism, and cooperates fully in international efforts to combat terrorism; and (5) otherwise meets specified eligibility criteria of the Trade Act of 1974.
Provides that if a country fails to meet the requirements of clause (1), but otherwise meets the rest of the requirements, the President may designate the country as a beneficiary country if determined that such designation will be in the national economic or security interest of the United States and reports the determination to Congress and the reason therefor.
Authorizes the President to designate articles as eligible for duty-free treatment from all beneficiary countries for purposes of this Act by Executive order or presidential proclamation after receiving the advice of the International Trade Commission.
Prescribes the rule of origin for eligible articles imported directly from beneficiary countries.
Terminates on December 31, 2011, the duty-free treatment or other preferential treatment extended to beneficiary countries under this Act.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 16, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- Jun 14, 2004Introduced in House
- Jun 14, 2004Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Bribery
- Cartels
- Child labor
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Civil War
- Collective bargaining
- Commerce
- Communist countries
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Democracy
- Department of the Treasury
- Diversification in industry
- Due process of law
- Economic development
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee rights
- Environmental Protection
- Equality before the law
- Expropriation
- Families
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Forced labor
- Foreign investments
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Free enterprise
- Free trade
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of the press
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government ownership
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Human rights
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Intellectual property
- International Affairs
- Job creation
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Loans
- Nontariff trade barriers
- Occupational health and safety
- Pluralism (Social sciences)
- Political violence
- Poverty
- Price regulation
- Privatization
- Public corruption
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Religion
- Religious liberty
- Right of assembly
- Right of property
- Rule of law
- Social Welfare
- State-sponsored terrorism
- Subsidies
- Sustainable development
- Tariff
- Tariff preferences
- Terrorism
- Treaties
- United Nations
- War
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 14, 2004Introduced in House
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