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HR 5423 106th Congress House Foreign Trade and International Finance Agriculture and Food Agriculture in foreign trade Commerce Import quotas Sugar Sugar trade Tariff

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas.

Introduced: October 6, 2000 Introduced by: Simpson, Michael K. Republican · Idaho See on congress.gov
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Oct 16, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Oct 6, 2000
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Oct 6, 2000
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, with respect to sugars, syrups, and molasses (excluding cane or beet sugar) that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during any fiscal year under certain quantitative import restrictions (tariff-rate quotas), to establish a duty on such articles and other articles if they are subsequently used for the commercial extraction or production of sugar for human consumption, or such articles are used in any manner that circumvent any quota imposed under the Schedule.
What's happening now October 16, 2000

Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Oct 6, 2000
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5423: To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5423/
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"H.R. 5423: To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas.." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5423/.
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H.R. 5423, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5423/.
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[H.R. 5423: To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas.](https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5423/)
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