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WASHINGTON -- A trade bill with provisions for dropping duties on apparel from Andean countries nudged a bit closer to completion Wednesday, with the House deciding by a one-vote margin [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to continue certain economic ties with Vietnam, a move that follows the signing last month of the first U.S. trade pact with the country. [...]

NEW YORK -- The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed by a vote of 427-1 the first bill that would bar Internet marketers from sending unsolicited e-mails, also known as [...]

WASHINGTON -- After weeks of business and organized labor battling over undecided lawmakers, the House today is scheduled to vote on whether to grant permanent normal trade benefits to China. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The likelihood of the House and Senate settling their differences on a textile-apparel trade bill before Congress adjourns for the year are dim, according to Senate Majority Leader [...]

WASHINGTON -- Following the passage of a Senate trade bill the day before, industry executives and lawmakers began discussing possible compromises with a House version on Thursday, focusing on how [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House Tuesday defeated a measure to deny China normal trade relations (NTR) status, a dress rehearsal of sorts for a later debate on whether to grant China [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House Friday handily passed legislation granting duty- and quota-free treatment to sub-Saharan African apparel, but sponsors admit the bill faces a rocky future in the Senate. During [...]

WASHINGTON -- Separate bills granting duty-free and quota-free status to apparel made in the Caribbean Basin and sub-Saharan Africa could be voted on in the House as early as next [...]

A House proposal to ease apparel and textile trade restrictions with sub-Saharan Africa has prompted strenuous opposition from US apparel and textile makers. Milliken & Co chairman Roger Milliken, for example has expressed his vehement opposition to the bill. In a letter to lawmakers, he said that giving African countries nonreciprocal access to the US market is not the way to encourage African development., A House plan to liberalize textile and apparel trade with sub-Saharan Africa has encountered a blitzkrieg from the domestic industries, which charge that the plan, while a laudable, humanitarian gesture, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Two Republican members of Congress introduced legislation Thursday to replace the federal income tax system with a 15 percent retail sales tax, an idea that is anathema to [...]

The US Congressional House Republicans will support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) after the resolution of certain issues. These issues include the formation of the World Trade Organization and a resolution on funding for GATT. Republican support is needed if GATT is to be passed. Republicans are also asking for environmental and labor issues to be resolved in later negotiations., WASHINGTON -- Administration officials are close to winning. House Republican support of the GATT Uruguay Round, following a Capitol Hill meeting Thursday on the remaining obstacles to consensus -- agreement [...]

WASHINGTON -- Administration officials charged with securing passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement met on Capitol Hill Wednesday with House Democrats and Republicans to organize their efforts, while [...]

LITTLE HOPE SEEN FOR OVERRIDE OF BUSH'S TEXTILE BILL VETO WASHINGTON (FNS) - The House is expected to attempt to override President Bush's veto of the textile quota bill Tuesday, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Sponsors of bankruptcy reform legislation introduced in the House Wednesday praised their bill as a bipartisan compromise balancing business and consumer rights interests, but its future still remains [...]

WASHINGTON -- European Union members can claim silk accessories they manufacture as their own, under a House bill passed Tuesday and designed to help settle a country-of-origin labeling dispute that's [...]

WASHINGTON -- The International Mass Retailers Association celebrated a vote by the House late Monday night that foiled an attack on the lucrative gray market. The House gave approval by [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans plowed through with a doomed vote on fast-track trade negotiating authority on Friday, suffering an even greater defeat than previously predicted by supporters. The vote was [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress moved closer to normalizing trade negotiations with Vietnam Thursday as the House voted down a joint resolution to reject President Clinton's extension of limited credit and investment [...]

WASHINGTON -- Retailers have expressed concern that the expiration of two federal programs on Wednesday could put pressure on prices. At issue is the Generalized System of Preferences -- which [...]

WASHINGTON -- A House panel took another step Tuesday toward normalizing trade relations with Vietnam, while moving to diffuse some of the angst over the perennial Capitol Hill battle of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Retailers scored a victory Wednesday when the House passed an ambitious reform of the U.S. bankruptcy system that will make it tougher for consumers to escape their debt. [...]

Organized labor is opposing the expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement into other Latin American and other countries while the apparel and textile manufacturers are favoring such an idea. Representatives from these areas are watching closely as the House evaluates the situation. Labor organizers see the expansion as a threat to the number of domestic workers losing jobs to international employees., The North American Free Trade Agreement was endorsed last week by the American Apparel Manufacturers Association and the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, as a House panel reviewed the impact of [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R., Ga.) gave a boost Tuesday to a plan to expand trade privileges to Caribbean nations, and efforts to extend the administration's negotiating authority [...]

WASHINGTON -- With Hong Kong set to revert to Chinese control on July 1, the House sent a warning Tuesday to China: Don't mess up Hong Kong's capitalist system. In [...]

The House has had several bills introduced during the 105th Congress that will affect the retail industry. Anti-sweatshop legislation has been reintroduced that would hold the manufacturer and contractor liable and does not have the approval of the retail industry. Changes in labor laws would allow compensatory time off rather than overtime pay which is approved by retailers but leaves them unsure about the implementation of such legislation., WASHINGTON -- Capital gains tax cuts, changes to labor laws and anti-sweatshop and trade reform proposals were among the first 100 House bills introduced with the start of the 105th [...]

WASHINGTON -- A House measure introduced in the closing days of the 104th Congress would open negotiations for a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa by 2020 and [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House approved Wednesday $10 million for textile industry research as part of a $24.5 billion fiscal 1997 appropriations bill for the Commerce, Justice and State Departments. The [...]

WASHINGTON -- A resolution to deny China's most-favored-nation trade status has been introduced in the Senate by Sens. Jesse Helms (R., N.C.) and Russ Feingold (D., Wis.) although there is [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House passed in a voice vote Tuesday a bill that would toughen penalties for counterfeiting by permitting the destruction of illicit goods and permitting prosecution under federal [...]

The House passed a $27.2 billion appropriations bill July 26, 1995 that drastically cut funding for the Commerce Dept but left more of the department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) budget alone. The Commerce dept's budget was cut 17%, while OTEXA will have to do with 10% less in 1996 if the bill makes it through the Senate unchanged. The bill also allowed $7 million for the National Textile Center and $3 million for the Textile/Clothing Technology Center., WASHINGTON -- While some funding was cut, the Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel was spared the deeper budget cuts imposed on Commerce generally in a $27.2 billion appropriations [...]

Congressional House leaders set the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade for Oct 5, 1994, despite Republican threats to stop its passage. House Speaker Thomas Foley said that Democratic leaders believed that they had enough votes, but Minority Leader Robert Michel said the vote would be close. Republicans objected to the Oct 5 vote, claiming that they had not had enough time to review the long bill., WASHINGTON --After a long day of indecision, House Democratic leaders decided late Tuesday afternoon to bring the GATT Uruguay Round implementing bill to a scheduled vote today, despite threats that [...]

WASHINGTON -- The GATT Uruguay Round advanced a step closer to Congressional passage Wednesday with the addition of tougher protections for the domestic textile industry against transshipping and additional foreign [...]

WASHINGTON - The House agreed Thursday in a voice vote to continue the $190 million wool and mohair subsidy for the current production year, before the program is ended. The [...]

The House of Representatives approved a measure to extend fast-track negotiating authority to the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT) talks. Congress can only approve or reject trade treaties and not amend them under fast-track rules. The measure gives the Clinton administration until December 15, 1993 to conclude the talks. The measure will be forwarded to the Senate for a vote where it faces a threatened filibuster from Senator Ernest Hollings, who wants the GATT Multi-fiber Arrangement phased out over 15 years instead of the proposed 10 years., WASHINGTON -- The House has voted in favor of President Clinton's request to extend fast-track negotiating authority for the Uruguay Round of the GATT talks. The measure, approved in a [...]

WASHINGTON -- The chief House tax writer has spotlighted the endorsements of certain retailers and others in the business community in looking to build support for the $250 billion tax [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) - A House Democrat said he will attempt to eliminate funding this week for a federal program he claims sacrifices American apparel jobs in order to help developing [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- In what has become a perennial exercise to restrict trade with China, the House overwhelmingly agreed Tuesday vote to tie China's 1993 trade privileges to improvements in [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Quotas and tariffs on textiles and apparel should be protected and not phased out under the proposed Mexico free-trade pact and GATT, five Democratic House members told [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The House passed a dilluted version last week of a bill that aims to make it easier to prosecute price-fixing charges. An amendment exempting small businesses from [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Conceding defeat in the House on protecting China's coveted Most-Favored-Nation trading status, retailers turned their attention Wednesday to winning votes in the Senate. A coalition of retailers [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The House is likely to impose conditions on China's trading privileges with the U.S. in a vote expected today, according to observers. The vote, in response to [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The House agreed Thursday to give President Bush the authority he says he needs to complete worldwide trade talks at the Uruguay Round and pursue free-trade talks [...]

HOUSE BILL LINKS TRADE STATUS TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA WASHINGTION (FNS) -- Striking out at what they see as continued human rights abuses in China, 60 House members are [...]

HOUSE OK'S $5,000 FUR TAX THRESHOLD WASHINGTON (FNS) - In a 238 to 192 partisan vote, the House accepted an amendment to a budget plan Tuesday that would levy a [...]

HOUSE PANEL RAISES FUR TAX THRESHOLD WASHINGTON (FNS) - The threshold for a 10 percent tax on furs has been raised from $5,000 to $10,000 under a federal budget proposal [...]

QUOTA BILL BACKERS TAKE AIM AT GENEVA AFTER HOUSE DEFEAT WASHINGTON (FNS) - House backers of a textile quota bill, after suffering defeat Wednesday in an effort to override a [...]

HOUSE SUSTAINS TEXTILE BILL VETO WASHINGTON (FNS) - For the third time in five years, the House failed Wednesday to override a veto of a bill to set global quotas [...]

HOUSE DELAYS VOTE ON TEXTILE BILL VETO WASHINGTON (FNS) - An attempt by the House to override President Bush's veto of a textile quota bill has been delayed until today. [...]

HOUSE SETS TEXTILE BILL OVERRIDE WASHINGTON (FNS) - The House is set to try to override President Bush's veto of the textile quota bill today, ending months of expensive campaigns [...]