Possible U.S. trade preference program expansion

The U.S. House Trade Subcommittee has asked for comments on plans to assess the impacts and future course of the U.S. trade preference program. Forty-five trade associations representing 29 preference and free-trade countries in North and South America, Africa and the Middle East weighed in, advocating continued preference for their products—but want no such preference for Cambodia and Bangladesh, whose already competitive textile industries draw jobs and income from countries on the preference list.