[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2007 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2007

  To amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend the third-
   country fabric rule, to add South Sudan to the list of countries 
    eligible for designation under that Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 15, 2011

 Mr. Baucus (for himself, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Lugar, Mr. Wyden, 
  Mr. Blunt, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Brown of Massachusetts, Mr. Cardin, Mr. 
Isakson, Mr. Coons, and Mr. Thune) introduced the following bill; which 
        was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend the third-
   country fabric rule, to add South Sudan to the list of countries 
    eligible for designation under that Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS TO THE AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT.

    (a) Extension of AGOA Third-Country Rule.--Section 112(c)(1) of the 
African Growth Opportunity Act (19 U.S.C. 3721(c)(1)) is amended by 
striking ``September 30, 2012'' each place it appears in the text and 
in the heading and inserting ``September 30, 2015''.
    (b) Designation of South Sudan.--Section 107 of the African Growth 
Opportunity Act (19 U.S.C. 3706) is amended by inserting ``Republic of 
South Sudan (South Sudan).'' after ``Republic of South Africa (South 
Africa).''.
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