International Trade Topics of Interest |
| Area of Interest :World Trade Organization |
| Non-Agricultural Market Access in Doha Round of Trade Talks | Likely concessions to LDCs such as Bangladesh and Cambodia; non-symetrical tariffs cuts. NTA Page |
| Area of Interest :Unfair Trade Practices |
| Area of Interest :Value Added Tax |
| Area of Interest :Non-Tariff Barriers |
| Barriers to U.S. Exports of Textiles | NTA continues to push Obama Administration for better market access for U.S. textiles. NTA Page |
| Area of Interest :Free Trade Agreement |
| Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement With Singapore, Chile, New Zealand, Brunei Darussalam, Australia, Peru and Vietnam | Second round of talks held in San Francisco in June 2010 NTA Page |
| CAFTA-DR Restricted Quantity Commercial Availability | CAFTA-DR Restricted Quantity Commercial Availability deficient in enforcement and limited ability to revoke. NTA Page |
| CAFTA-DR Short Supply and Elastomerics | NTA does not oppose foreign spandex in short supply fabric provided sewing thread is fixed as well NTA Page |
| CAFTA-DR Sewing Thread Rule | NTA seeks change to CAFTA-DR to require all sewing thread to originate NTA Page |
| Dominican Republican 2 (U.S. fabric)-for-1 (foreign fabric) trouser program. | Monitor for compliance and as possible model for program with other regional partners. NTA Page |
| Nicaragua 1 (U.S. fabric)-for-1 (foreign fabric) trouser program. | Monitor compliance and push for more effective compliance. NTA Page |
| U.S.-Colombia FTA | NTA opposes NTA Page |
| U.S.-Korea FTA | NTA opposes NTA Page |
| U.S.-Panama FTA | NTA has not taken a position NTA Page |
| Area of Interest :Preference Program |
| Various proposal to alter textile and other preference programs | Threat of weakening of rules of orgin. Threat of including textiles in Generalized System of Preferences NTA Page |
| Area of Interest :Miscellaneous Tariff Bill |
| Temporary duty suspensions relating to camel hair and certain other fine animal hair expire December 31, 2009. | Bills were filed in House or Senate for MTB process NTA Page |
| Area of Interest :Commercial Availability |
| NAFTA rayon short supply request | NTA request published Oct. 2007. Trilateral agreement reached. Awaiting implementation NTA Page |
| Singapore's compact wool yarn short supply request | NTA has objected to short supply for compact wool yarn in the U.S.-Singapore FTA NTA Page |
| Singapore October 2009 request for short supply on wide selection of fabrics | NTA opposes NTA Page |