C1 Trade-Off on Trade Bill To gain passage of expanded trade authority for the president, House Republican leaders agreed to weaken some textile export preferences granted in the Clinton years.

You can find more information on claiming preferential duty rates in Notice 826 Tariff Preferences: Imports to Notice 829 EC Export preferences: Rules of origin for export.

For intermediate information, see the page on working with import and export preferences in our guide on licences and enforcement for international trading and the page on tariff preferences in our guide on rules of origin.

In a letter to Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who switched his vote in the final seconds to give the White House a 215-to-214 win, three top Republican leaders promised to use "whatever means necessary" to cancel some textile export preferences Congress had granted Caribbean, Central American and Andean nations.