List of Trade Preference Programs and Their Expiration Dates, Etc.
The following is a list of current U.S trade preference programs, as well as a list of current free trade agreements.1 Any expiration dates are noted.
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Current Trade Preference Programs
The U.S. has a number of trade preference programs for imported products, most of which are described by General Note in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). Several of these programs (listed in the first table) have scheduled expiration dates, as noted below:
(Note that efforts are being made to enact a law to extend the GSP and ATPA/ATPDEA programs before they expire on December 31. See ITT’s Online Archives or 09/28/10 news, 10092820, for recent BP summary.)
| Trade Preference Program | Expiration Date | HTS General Note |
|---|---|---|
| Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for non-AGOA beneficiary countries | Dec 31, 2010 | 4 |
| Andean Trade Preference Act/Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPA/ATPDEA) | Dec 31, 2010 | 11 |
| African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)2, GSP for AGOA beneficiary countries | Sep 30, 2015 | 16 |
| Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Acts (HOPE I and II), as amended by the Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) | Sep 30, 2020 | none |
| Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) | Sep 30, 2020 | 17 |
| Trade Preference Program | HTS General Note |
|---|---|
| Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) | 7 |
| Products of the Freely Associated States | 10 |
| Insular Possession Products | 3 |
| West Bank, Gaza Strip and Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) Products | 3 |
| Motor Vehicles Manufactured in FTZs | 3 |
| Automotive Products Trade Act (Canada) | 5 |
| Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft | 6 |
| Pharmaceutical Products | 13 |
| Intermediate Chemicals for Dyes | 14 |
| Agricultural Products TRQ Exclusion | 15 |
Current Free Trade Agreements
The following is a list of current free trade agreements; these do not have an expiration date:
| FTA | HTS General Note |
|---|---|
| North American FTA (NAFTA) | 12 |
| Chile FTA (CFTA) | 26 |
| Singapore FTA (SFTA) | 25 |
| Australia FTA (AFTA) | 28 |
| Israel FTA (IFTA or ILFTA) | 8 |
| Jordan FTA (JFTA) | 18 |
| Bahrain FTA (BFTA) | 30 |
| Morocco FTA (MFTA) | 27 |
| Oman FTA (OFTA) | 31 |
| Dominican Republic-Central America FTA (DR-CAFTA or CAFTA-DR) | 29 |
| Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA) | 32 |
1Most of which are called “special tariff treatment programs” in the HTS
2Note the “third country” sublimit for lesser developed AGOA countries (HTS 9819.11.12) is set to expire earlier, on September 30,2012
(The Korea, Panama, and Colombia FTAs are listed as “pending” by the Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA).)
(See ITT’s Online Archives or 05/26/10 news, 10052663, for BP summary of the President signing the Haiti HELP Act into law, which extended the CBTPA and Haiti HOPE until 09/30/20. See ITT's Online Archives or 09/29/10 news, 10092913, for BP summary of 2011 AGOA TPL and sublimit and their expiration dates.)
Information in this ITT article is from the HTS General Notes, OTEXA at http://otexa.ita.doc.gov, and ITT's Online Archives.