S.3326: A bill to amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend the third-country fabric program and to add South Sudan to the list of countries eligible for designation under that Act, to make technical corrections to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of t

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(Sec. 1) Amends the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend through FY2015 the third-country fabric rule granting duty-free treatment of apparel articles wholly assembled, or knit-to-shape and wholly assembled, or both, in one or more lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries, regardless of the country of origin of the fabric or the yarn used to make such articles. Revises the term "sub-Saharan African country" to include...

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Date Description
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Baucus without amendment. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 459.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-653.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
By Senator Baucus from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 112-225. Additional views filed.
June 21, 2012

Introduced in the Senate by Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

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