Earned Import Allowance Program: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Program for Certain Apparel from the Dominican Republic, Ninth Annual Review

On October 16, 2008, H.R. 7222, the Andean Trade Preference Extension Act of 2008, Became Public Law No: 110-436. Sec. 2 of the Act created the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement ("CAFTA-DR") Earned Import Program–a 2-for-1 matching program for trousers assembled in the Dominican Republic. Under this program the D.R. may ship, duty-free, one square meter equivalent of trousers of third-country fabric for every two sme of trousers of U.S.-made fabric.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (Commission) has announced its schedule, including deadlines for filing written submissions, in connection with preparing a report on its ninth annual review in investigation No. 332-503, Earned Import Allowance Program: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Program for Certain Apparel from the Dominican Republic, Ninth Annual Review.

April 30, 2018: Deadline for filing written submissions.

August 3, 2018: Transmittal of ninth report to House Committee on Ways and Means and Senate