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S 4976 116th Congress Senate Foreign Trade and International Finance

Trade Preference Reform and Worker Protection Act of 2020

Introduced: December 8, 2020 Introduced by: Hawley, Josh Republican · Missouri See on congress.gov
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Trade Preference Reform and Worker Protection Act of 2020

This bill prohibits the President from providing duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences when the U.S. unemployment rate has been less than 4%, on average, during the preceding six-month period, and it makes countries that use forced labor or child labor ineligible for duty-free treatment.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4976: Trade Preference Reform and Worker Protection Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4976/
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"S. 4976: Trade Preference Reform and Worker Protection Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4976/.
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S. 4976, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4976/.
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