Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act
Latest action · Nov 2, 2005 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
- IntroducedNov 2, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide, beginning on October 1, 2004, 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.
Applies such provisions to goods entered or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption on or after October 1, 2004, including a retroactive application to certain warehouse entries or withdrawals made between such date and the date of enactment of this Act.
Cosponsors 22
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 31, 2006 to Dec 6, 2006.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Howard L. Berman | Jan 31, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Jim Davis | Mar 1, 2006 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Mar 1, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Mar 9, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Al Green | Mar 28, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Mar 28, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Mar 28, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Mar 30, 2006 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | May 3, 2006 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | May 3, 2006 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | May 3, 2006 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | May 17, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Dec 5, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Dec 6, 2006 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Nov 2, 2005 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2005Introduced in House
- Nov 2, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1937 | Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act | Identical bill | Oct 27, 2005 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To expand certain preferential trade treatment for Haiti.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
- 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
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fraud
- Free enterprise
- Free trade
- Freedom of association
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government ownership
- Government paperwork
- Governmental investigations
- Haiti
- 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
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2005Introduced in House
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