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Article: TEXTILE COMMITTEE DENIES LEVI.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- March 29, 2004
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WASHINGTON -- The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, a multiagency U.S. government group, on Friday published a denial of two separate short-supply requests filed by Levi Strauss & Co. under two preferential trade programs covering the Caribbean, African and Andean regions.
The preferential import laws largely require that U.S. textiles be used in order to receive duty-free status. But the laws allow garments made of non-U.S. materials to qualify for duty-free status if the materials are not commercially available in the U.S.
In the first petition, filed on behalf of Levi's by law firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, Levi's alleged ...