S 3116
106th Congress
Senate
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Import quotas
Sugar
Sugar trade
Tariff
A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas.
Introduced: September 26, 2000
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 26, 2000
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 26, 2000
Introduced in Senate
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of the United States, with respect to sugars, syrups, and molasses (excluding cane or beet sugar) that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during any fiscal year under certain quantitative import restrictions (tariff-rate quotas), to establish a duty on such articles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, or such articles are used in any manner that circumvent any quota imposed under the Schedule.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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