Getting a Preferential Tariff on Textiles

The us. Goods tariff list which still has relatively high tariffs, are what have been known as light industrial goods. And the biggest by far is textals and apparel. The way you get a preferential treatment, or duty free treatment, in that arrangement is to go with what's called a yarn forward rule. It turns out that textal and parol rules in the central america free trade agreement were very carefully negotiated.