HR 506 106th Congress House Foreign Trade and International Finance Coke industry Commerce Import quotas Import restrictions Iron Iron and steel industry Steel Tariff Trade negotiations Voluntary export restraints

To ensure that the volume of steel imports does not exceed the average monthly volume of such imports during the 36-month period preceding July 1997.

Introduced: February 2, 1999 See on congress.gov

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Became law

Feb 9, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

Feb 2, 1999

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Feb 2, 1999

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H275-276)

Feb 2, 1999

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Directs the President to impose quotas, tariff surcharges, or negotiate enforceable voluntary export restraint agreements in order to ensure that the volume of imported steel products (semifinished, plates, sheets and strips, wire rods, wire and wire products, rail type products, bars, structural shapes and units, pipes and tubes, iron ore, and coke products) during any month does not exceed the average volume of imported steel for the 36-month period preceding July 1997. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Commerce to implement a program for administering and enforcing the restraints on such imports. Authorizes the Customs Service to refuse entry into the U.S. customs territory for a three year period of any steel products that exceed the allowable levels of such products.

What's happening now February 9, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

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