HR 5381
106th Congress
House
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Farm production quotas
Imports
International Affairs
Marketing of farm produce
Tariff agreements
Tariff preferences
Tobacco
Tobacco industry
Trade negotiations
Tobacco Farmers Trade Fairness Act
Introduced: October 4, 2000
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 12, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Oct 4, 2000
Introduced in House
Oct 4, 2000
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Plain-English summary
Tobacco Farmers Trade Fairness Act - Directs the President, in the first negotiations after enactment of this Act under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, to take the necessary steps to renegotiate the tariff-rate quota on imported tobacco so that: (1) the quantity of tobacco receiving preferential tariff treatment is 50 percent of the quantity receiving such treatment under the tariff-rate quota in effect upon enactment of this Act; and (2) thereafter, the quantity of tobacco receiving preferential tariff treatment under such quota is reduced in each calendar year by the same percentage as any reduction in the national marketing quota proclaimed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1