Inside Trade

November 2, 2025

FTA Central

Final TPP Deal Contains Limited Yarn-Forward Exceptions; NCTO Satisfied

The final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) reflects some of the key priorities of the U.S. textile industry by allowing limited exceptions from the prevailing yarn-forward rule of origin and by including tariff phaseouts for sensitive apparel items of 10 to 12 years. One of the main exceptions to yarn-forward is an “earned import allowance” program for cotton pants made in Vietnam from third-country fabric, which was changed at the last minute to shield Mexico from some of the increased competition it...

California Dem Garamendi Hints At Problems With TPP, Fearing It Will Hollow Out U.S. Manufacturing

House Floor Remarks By Representative John Garamendi

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I am going to go through it very quickly here and then focus on one piece of this agenda. Here it is: trade policies. This is going to take a lot of time to discuss this. We are not going to go into it today, but the President announced just in the last couple days that the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is done.

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