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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedBILL TAKES AIM AT DUTIES; AFFORDABLE FOOTWEAR ACT 2007 FOCUSES ON LOWER-PRICED FOOTWEAR AND CHILDREN'S SHOES.
Footwear News, June, 2007 by Ellis, Kristi
Byline: Kristi Ellis
WASHINGTON - The footwear industry made strides last week with a bipartisan group of House lawmakers introducing a bill that would eliminate some $830 million in duties across several categories of footwear imports.
Reps. Joseph Crowley (D., N.Y.), Kevin Brady (R., Texas) and Nancy Boyda (D,. Kansas) unveiled the Affordable Footwear Act of 2007 last Wednesday at a press conference on Capitol Hill. The bill would eliminate roughly 45 percent of all footwear duties collected by the U.S. government, with a focus on certain lower-priced footwear and children's shoes. The footwear industry, along with the bill's sponsors, are arguing that the duties are essentially a regressive tax hurting low- to middle-income families.
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