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
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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 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
Plain-English summary
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of the United States, with respect to sugars, syrups, and molasses (excluding cane or beet sugar) that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during any fiscal year under certain quantitative import restrictions (tariff-rate quotas), to establish a duty on such articles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
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1