Though the current ATPA is due to expire this November, it is widely expected to be renewed and expanded. At a recent meeting in the Colombian seaport Cartagena, the Presidents of the ATPA countries drafted a letter that was presented to President Bush at last week’s ‘Summit of the Americas’ in Quebec. In the letter they called for exports of leather, leather products, textiles and tuna be granted the same duty-free status that already applies to products such as flowers, oil, minerals, coffee and bananas.

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