Andean Trade Preference Act: Impact on U.S. Industries and Consumers and on Drug Crop Eradication and Crop Substitution, 2009. Fourteenth Report. Investigation No. 332-352

摘要

The submission of this study to Congress continues a series of reports by the U.S. International Trade Commission (the Commission or USITC) on the impact of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) on U.S. industries and consumers. The current study fulfills the Commission=s reporting requirement for calendar year 2009 and represents the 14th in the series. ATPA, enacted on December 4, 1991, authorized the President to proclaim duty-free treatment for eligible articles from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. ATPA has been amended and the authority to provide preferential treatment has been extended several times, most recently by Public Law 110-124. The authority to provide preferential treatment is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2010. Bolivia was suspended as an ATPA beneficiary country effective December 15, 2008. The United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement entered into force on February 1, 2009, but Perus status as an ATPA beneficiary country continued. Section 206 of ATPA requires the Commission to assess the economic impact of the Act on United States industries and consumers, and in conjunction with other agencies, the effectiveness of this Act in promoting drug-related crop eradication and crop substitution efforts of beneficiary countries. The Commission is required to submit its report to Congress biennially by September 30 of the year following the period covered in each report.