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S 3116 106th Congress Senate

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

Introduced: October 31, 2000 See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance Agriculture and FoodAgriculture in foreign tradeCommerceImport quotas
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SugarSugar tradeTariff
This bill died when the 106th Congress ended
It never became law before the 106th Congress (1999–2000) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
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Sep 26, 2000
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 26, 2000
Introduced in Senate
 Amendments to this bill 1

Amendments propose changes to this bill. Members vote on amendments separately before the final bill vote. An agreed amendment becomes part of the bill; a failed amendment does not.

AmendmentSponsorPurposeStatusLatest action
SAMDT 4,325 – – Pending Oct 19, 2000
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 Latest action September 26, 2000

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 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of the United States, with respect to sugars, syrups, and molasses (excluding cane or beet sugar) that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during any fiscal year under certain quantitative import restrictions (tariff-rate quotas), to establish a duty on such articles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, or such articles are used in any manner that circumvent any quota imposed under the Schedule.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3116: A bill 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-S-3116/
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"S. 3116: A bill 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-S-3116/.
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S. 3116, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-3116/.
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