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A concurrent resolution urging the United States to seek a global consensus supporting a moratorium on tariffs and on special, multiple and discriminatory taxation of electronic commerce.

Introduced: September 30, 1999 Introduced by: Wyden, Ron Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
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Sep 30, 1999
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 30, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11735-11736)
Sep 30, 1999
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Urges the President to: (1) seek a global consensus supporting a permanent international moratorium on tariffs on electronic commerce, including a ban on special, multiple, and discriminatory taxation of electronic commerce and the Internet; (2) instruct the U.S. delegation to the November 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Seattle, Washington, to seek to make permanent the moratorium on tariffs on electronic transmissions adopted by the WTO in May 1998; (3) seek adoption by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development of an international ban on special, multiple, or discriminatory taxation of electronic commerce and the Internet; and (4) oppose any proposal by any country, the United Nations, or any other multilateral organization to establish a bit tax on electronic transmissions.

What's happening now September 30, 1999

Referred to the Committee on Finance.

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