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Washington.- The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved several measures to increase that country’s competitiveness and market leadership, including technical changes related to the rules of origin under the Central America-Dominican Republic free trade pact (DR-CAFTA) which took effect 2004, Efe reports.

 In February 2011 the region’s trade ministers had already agreed to make the technical amendments to the rules of origin related to textiles and assembled garments.  Only the U.S. had still to make those same changes in trade legislation.

The package, approved just prior to the start of Congress’s August recess, includes the incorporation of South Sudan into a trade preference program and the renewed authorization of import sanctions against Burma.

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Written by: cibaeño75, 3 Aug 2012 6:56 PM
From: United States, New York City
Summation: DR just got screwed but no specifics as to how.
Written by: Vivacuba, 4 Aug 2012 3:07 AM
From: Dominican Republic
So this is WHY the recent ban on used textiles. WASHINGTON CONTROLS the Dominican Republic. They have bought and sold the Congress of the DR. A Herpes venereal disease for sure
Written by: dreadlocks, 4 Aug 2012 10:19 AM
From: United States
yes, cibaeno. the crap has hit the fan. most likely, for the textile good to enter the USA without tariffs, the textiles will have to originate in the DR. no buying of cheap cloth from China, manufacturing jeans, and selling them in the US. as i said before, there is no such thing as free trade. you cannot enter into an agreement with a country that is so much bigger than you are, and expect to operate on an equal footing. it is like a prometor staging a boxing tournament, with no weight limits. he tells you that the guy who weighs 115 pounds has the same chance of winning as the guy who weighs 275, because the ring is the same size for everybody.
Written by: dreadlocks, 4 Aug 2012 10:22 AM
From: United States
Written by: Vivacuba, 4 Aug 2012 3:07 AM
From: Dominican Republic
So this is WHY the recent ban on used textiles.

nope. the ban on used clothes is occasioned by the really rich clothing vendors, who do not want competition from lesser people who sell used clothes. when you have a store on the Conde, you do not want to know that someone can go to MUN2 and buy a pair of used, but perfect, Brooks Brothers pants for 250 pesos.
Written by: Trujillo, 4 Aug 2012 11:32 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Easy, don't buy it from China and start manufacturing it in the DR.
Written by: Vivacuba, 5 Aug 2012 6:53 AM
From: Dominican Republic
US Lawmakers should go and flush their heads down a nasty dirty toilet
Written by: Vivacuba, 5 Aug 2012 6:55 AM
From: Dominican Republic
where is MUN2, I will go there and shop around??
Written by: dreadlocks, 5 Aug 2012 12:49 PM
From: United States
asks Vivacuba

Written by: Vivacuba, 5 Aug 2012 6:55 AM
From: Dominican Republic
where is MUN2, I will go there and shop around??

they have them in Cabarete, Sosua, POP , and maybe other places. saw a pair of Saks Fifth Avenue dress pants, like new, for 250pesos. i am not too proud to wear something like that used.
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