The House passed two measures Monday to renew duty-free trade preference programs for clothing, textiles, and other select goods imported from Haiti and more than 30 sub-Saharan African countries that lapsed last September. <\/p>\n
The chamber voted 340-54 for a bill (H.R. 6500; BGOV Bill Analysis<\/a>) to reauthorize the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act<\/a> program. It passed another bill (H.R. 6504; BGOV Bill Analysis<\/a>) to renew the HOPE\/HELP<\/a> Haiti trade programs by a 345-45 vote. <\/p>\n The bills, which now head to the Senate, would renew the programs through Dec. 31, 2028. They were last reauthorized …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The House passed two measures Monday to renew duty-free trade preference programs for clothing, textiles, and other select…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,12630,1324,12629,12631],"class_list":{"0":"post-20223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-customs-duties","10":"tag-imports","11":"tag-non-u-s-international-trade-legislation","12":"tag-trade-preferences"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}