Andean Region

The Andean Trade Preferences Act, adopted in 1991, provides duty-free access to U.S. markets for some 5,600 products from the four eligible countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The Trade Act of 2002 renewed the ATPA program and extended new benefits to 700 additional products under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act until December 2006. The ATPDEA requires that each country must meet all the ATPA intellectual property rights criteria as well as the ATPDEA’s explicit TRIPS-or-greater criteria and willingness to participate in FTAA negotiations in order to be designated an ATPDEA eligible country. The December 2006 Trade Bill granted a six-month extension for Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia (followed by an additional six-month extension for each country only if the United States and that country both complete their legislative process to approve a trade promotion agreement). Congress agreed to extend the ATPA program for all four countries for an additional eight months, until February 29, 2008, and another 10-month extension has been passed, keeping this trade program authorized through December 30, 2008.

	ANDEAN REGION: ATPA & ATPDEA
	March 5, 2007	IIPA files comments with USTR on the four countries (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia) receiving trade benefits under the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA).
	June 8, 2006	IIPA provides the USITC with comments on copyright law and enforcement in the four Andean countries (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia).
	June 8, 2005	IIPA submits its views to the U.S. International Trade Commission on the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) and identified copyright problems in the four ATPA countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru).
	June 1, 2004	IIPA files comments with the U.S. International Trade Commission on the copyright law and enforcement efforts of the four countries participating in the Andean Trade Preferences Program (ATPA).
	March 10, 2004	IIPA Andean FTA Request to Testify to USTR March 2004.
	May 21, 2003	IIPA responds to International Trade Commission's Request for Comments on the Andean Trade Preferences Act: Effect on the U.S. Economy and on Andean Drug Crop Eradication, 68 Fed. Reg. 14697 (March 26, 2003)
	March 26, 2003	IIPA filedcomments to USTR on the eligibility criteria of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru under Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act beneficiary countries, 68 Fed. Reg. 8791 (February 25, 2003).
	September 16, 2002	IIPA responds to request for public comment regarding the designation of eligible countries as Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act beneficiary countries, 67 Fed. Reg. 53379 (August 15, 2002).
	July 1, 2000	IIPA responds to International Trade Commission's request for comments on the Andean Trade Preference Act: Effect on the U.S. Economy and on Andean Drug Crop Eradication, Investigation No. 332-352, 67 Fed. Reg. 40337 (June 12, 2002).
	July 1, 2000

	September 11, 2000	IIPA filed comments on the report on the Andean Trade Preference Act, 65 Fed. Reg. 48041 (August 4, 2000).
	October 17, 1997	IIPA filed comments on the report on the Andean Trade Preference Act, 62 Fed. Reg. 46792 (September 4, 1997).