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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Sep 14, 2009
ATPDEA Expansion and Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), as amended and expanded by Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), to include Paraguay and Uruguay on the list of countries eligible for duty-free treatment and other preferential treatment for their products as designated beneficiary countries and ATPDEA beneficiary countries.
Extends preferential treatment to certain wool apparel articles that are both cut and sewn or otherwise assembled in the United States, or in one or more ATPDEA beneficiary countries, or both.
Terminates the extension of such treatment to Paraguayan and Uruguayan products after December 31, 2012.
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Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] · R–IN
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
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