Caribbean Basin Initiative: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 2237, August 2, 1982U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 521 pages |
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Administration AFL-CIO agricultural Ambassador MACDONALD amendment American Bahamas Basin Economic Recovery beneficiary country benefits bill Caribbean Basin countries Caribbean Basin Economic Caribbean Basin Initiative Caribbean countries Caribbean rum Chairman citrus Committee on Finance competitive Congress corporation cost cruise developing countries domestic Dominican Republic duty-free treatment economic development Economic Recovery Act excise taxes exempt exports Federal Florida footwear foreign free trade Hawaii impact income increase International Trade investment tax credit Jamaica labor leather legislation macadamia nut manufacturing Mexico million nations operations percent private sector problems proposed Puerto Rican rum Puerto Rico quota region revenues safeguard Secretary ENDERS section 936 Senator BYRD Senator CHAFEE sparing sparing statement substantial sugar System of Preferences tariff tax incentives tax sparing tax treaties textiles and apparel tion treaties tuna U.S. imports U.S. industries U.S. market U.S. Virgin Islands United UNITED STATES SENATE Virgin Islands rum workers
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Page 31 - Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Page 148 - In determining whether to designate any country a beneficiary country under this title, the President shall take into account — (1) an expression by such country of its desire to be so designated; (2) the...
Page 6 - States on articles produced in Puerto Rico and transported to the United States (less the estimated amount necessary for payment of refunds and drawbacks), or consumed in the island, shall be covered into the treasury of Puerto Rico.
Page 310 - (A) The sum of (1) the cost or value of the materials produced in the beneficiary developing country, plus (2) the direct costs of processing operations performed in such country is not less than 35 percent of the appraised value of such article at the time of its entry into the customs territory of the United States...
Page 420 - Act) to determine whether there is a reasonable indication that an industry in the United States is materially injured or threatened with material injury, or the establishment of an industry in the...
Page 11 - Any information received by a Contracting State shall be treated as secret in the same manner as information obtained under the domestic laws of that State...
Page 344 - ... wholly the growth, product, or manufacture of a beneficiary country, or must be a new or different article of commerce which has been grown, produced, or manufactured in the beneficiary country...
Page 10 - Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and...
Page 344 - No article shall be considered a new or different article of commerce under this section, and no material shall be included for purposes of determining the 35 percent requirement of subsection (a)(3), by virtue of having merely undergone — (A) simple combining or packaging operations, or (B) mere dilution with water or with another substance that does not materially alter the characteristics of the article or material. (2) Requirements for new or different article of commerce.
Page 390 - American area unless you satisfy the rules at 20. 1 1 and also can show the convention is directly related to your business and it was as reasonable for the meeting to be held outside the North American area as within it.