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WASHINGTON - The economic stimulus package that President Bush and Congress are quickly rolling out should include programs that help both businesses and consumers, especially those with the lowest incomes, [...]

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 (FNS) -- A bill that would put the brakes on the Labor Department's issuing of a final ergonomics standard cleared a key House panel last week. The Republican-backed measure, [...]

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 [...]

The Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to prevent the introduction of invasive species that can negatively impact the economy, environment, and animal and human health. The bill calls for a risk assessment process to be done before being allowed into the U.S.

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, [...]

TEXTILE BILL PASSES HOUSE, LACKS VETO-PROOF MARGIN WASHINGTON (FNS) - The textile and apparel quota bill passed the House Tuesday, but failed to garner enough support to override a promised [...]

House OKs Bill Blocking Fish, Produce Data Rule WASHINGTON (FNS) -- With a single blow, the food industry last week scored a double victory in its struggle to influence food [...]

Home centers had better conquer their 'myopia' and take a longer view of the lumber industry, says Roger Scherer, president of Scherer Brothers Lumber Co. in Minneapolis. Building supply retailers, [...]

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 for the President last Friday, suffering an even greater loss than previously predicted by supporters. The [...]

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. [...]

BLAST EXPECTED TO STRENGTH CONGRESSMEN WHO WANT TO INCLUDE IMPORTS IN SANCTIONS WASHINGTON -- President Clinton Thursday said Pakistan's detonation of atomic devices in response to India's nuclear tests left [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Legislation is being drafted in the House that would set uniform nationwide regulations on expiration dates for all food products and likely will be introduced when Congress [...]

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 (FNS)--The House approved $10 million Wednesday for textile industry research as part of a $24.5 billion appropriations bill for the departments of Commerce, Justice and State. The 246-179 vote [...]

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 [...]

A resolution ending most-favored trade (MFN) privileges for China was defeated by the House of Representatives on Jun 27, 1996, ending efforts to terminate low tariffs and market access. China has been accused by MNF opponents of transshipping textiles, stealing intellectual property, and violating human rights, and the House is seeking to investigate these charges. Many US retailers now rely on low-cost apparel imports from China., WASHINGTON (FNS) - The House endorsed President Clinton's China policy Thursday and overwhelmingly defeated a resolution that would have withdrawn its most-favored-nation trade privileges. Despite charges that China continues to [...]

Textile industry backers in the House plan to introduce a textile bill, the first to be considered by Congress since 1990, on Jun 13, 1996. In contrast to previous textile bills, the new measure will not be protectionist. It will instead be intended to open foreign markets to US textiles and apparel and to stiffen penalties for trade violations. Rep John Spratt wrote the bill., WASHINGTON (FNS) - Textile industry advocates in the House have drafted the first textile bill to come before Congress since 1990 and plan to introduce it today. While past versions [...]

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

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 budget bill passed by the House on Oct 26, 1995 left many items of concern, such as the Committee on Implementation of Textiles and Apparel, unsettled. Cotton price supports would be ended and trade benefits to the Caribbean expanded. Retailers were pleased by tax cuts, however. Job training, world trade provisions, a tougher Cuban embargo, and international shipping rate deregulation were other items included., WASHINGTON (FNS) - retailers got what they wanted - tax cuts - in a sweeping bill to balance the federal budget by 2002 that passed the House Thursday. Domestic textile [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) -- A House plan to eliminate the Department of Commerce was criticized Wednesday by Rep. John Spratt (D., S.C.) for a provision that would eliminate the Office of [...]

The Bureau of International Labor Affairs will not lose the vast majority of its federal funding in 1996, due to an amendment to the series of appropriations bills now under consideration by Congress. Rep John Porter, who authored one of the original bills designed to slash government spending, admitted that the agency's funds were necessary and that he had made a mistake in writing legislating to reduce them. The Bureau will now receive $5.85 million in 1996 to pay for its human rights and child labor law violations monitoring and enforcement efforts. The funding restoration must also be approved by the relevant Senate appropriations committee., WASHINGTON (FNS) -- As the House slogs through contentious bills to pare government spending, support for an obscure department that helped negotiate a settlement in child labor disputes in Bangladesh [...]

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 [...]

Describe changes as 'disruptive' WASHINGTON (FNS) - Retailers told a House panel this week that plans to designate countries where apparel is sewn as the place of origin would be [...]

WASHINGTON (FNS) - The House approved Thursday a $17.1 billion spending cut package that includes an $8 million reduction in an Energy Department budget that covers the American Textile Partnership, [...]