RS22159
DR-CAFTA Labor Rights Issues
January 26, 2006

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The U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DRCAFTA, (P.L. 109-53, August 2, 2005) is the eighth free trade agreement to include labor protections. Implementation, scheduled for January 1, 2006, has been postponed because no DR-CAFTA country has completed internal legal and regulatory changes required, although several are close. Meanwhile, the countries' goods entering the United States will continue to receive preferential tariff treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Labor concerns focused on three main questions