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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Dec 12, 1995
Warm Peace Act of 1995 - Amends the United States-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act to authorize the President to proclaim the elimination or modification of any existing duty in order to exempt any article from duty if: (1) the article is wholly the growth, product or manufacture of the West Bank or Gaza Strip or a qualifying industrial zone; and (2) the article is imported directly from such Area or zone, and the sum of the materials and processing costs of such article is not less than 35 percent of the appraised value of such product at the time it enters into the United States. Authorizes the President to: (1) treat such articles as items of Israel for purposes of the free trade agreement entered into between the United States and Israel in 1985; and (2) include the value of materials and processing costs of such articles as values and costs under such agreement.
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Sen. Brown, Hank [R-CO] · R–CO
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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