S 2778
106th Congress
Senate
Law
Antitrust actions
Antitrust law
Cartels
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Immunities of foreign states
International Affairs
OPEC countries
Petroleum industry
Petroleum prices
Restrictive trade practices
NOPEC
Introduced: June 22, 2000
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
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To President
Became law
Sep 21, 2000
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 821.
Sep 21, 2000
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch without amendment. Without written report.
Sep 21, 2000
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Jul 27, 2000
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition. Approved for full committee consideration without amendment favorably.
Jul 10, 2000
Referred to Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition.
Jun 22, 2000
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jun 22, 2000
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5683)
Jun 22, 2000
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2000 (NOPEC) - Amends the Sherman Act to declare it to be illegal and a violation of the Act for any foreign state or instrumentality thereof to act collectively or in combination with any other foreign state or any other person, whether by cartel or any other association or form of cooperation or joint action, to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product (petroleum), to set or maintain the price of petroleum, or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for petroleum, when such action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price, or distribution of petroleum in the United States.
Denies a foreign state engaged in such conduct sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction or judgements of U.S. courts in any action brought to enforce this Act.
States that no U.S. court shall decline, based on the act of state doctrine, to make a determination on the merits in an action brought under this Act.
Authorizes the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission to bring an action in U.S. district court to enforce this Act.
(Sec. 3) Amends the Federal judicial code to make an exception to the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state in an action brought under this Act.
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 821.
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