S. 730: Affordable Footwear Act of 2009
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S. 730: Affordable Footwear Act of 2009
111th Congress · introduced 2009-03-26 · Foreign Trade and International Finance · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2009-03-26 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title
Affordable Footwear Act of 2009
Plain summary
Affordable Footwear Act of 2009 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the reduction or elimination of duties on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefits to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain footwear (including children's shoes) made of rubber or plastics that are imported into the United States. Deems the outer sole of shoes made of rubber or plastics to which textile materials are attached or incorporated to be made only of rubber or plastics. Amends the Caribbean Basic Economic Recovery Act to provide footwear imported directly from Haiti into the United States with the same preferential treatment that is provided to certain imported footwear under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement.
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Official text
Affordable Footwear Act of 2009
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV] · 21 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-111s730.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/111/s>
Record fed-us-cong111-s730 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111