HRES 298
106th Congress
House
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Antidumping
Congress
Countervailing duties
Customs administration
Dumping
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
President and foreign policy
Subsidies
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations
Treaty-making power
Calling on the President to abstain from renegotiating international agreements governing antidumping and countervailing measures.
Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Agreed to (House)
Oct 19, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10182-10183)
Sep 22, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 22, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1929)
Sep 22, 1999
Introduced in House
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Plain-English summary
Calls upon the President: (1) not to participate in any international negotiation in which antidumping or antisubsidy rules are part of the negotiating agenda; (2) to refrain from submitting for congressional approval agreements that require changes to the current antidumping and countervailing duty laws and enforcement policies of the United States; and (3) to enforce the antidumping and countervailing duty laws vigorously in all pending and future cases.
What's happening now
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10182-10183)
Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
22
R
Smith, Christopher H.
D
Sherman, Brad
D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
D
DeGette, Diana
D
Meeks, Gregory W.
D
Pelosi, Nancy
D
Waters, Maxine
D
Hoyer, Steny H.
D
Nadler, Jerrold
D
Thompson, Bennie G.
I
Sanders, Bernard
D
Lofgren, Zoe
R
Aderholt, Robert B.
D
Bishop, Sanford D.
D
Clyburn, James E.
D
Davis, Danny K.
D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
D
Kaptur, Marcy
D
McGovern, James P.
D
Neal, Richard E.
D
Pallone, Frank
D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
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