S 753
107th Congress
Senate
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Alcoholic beverages
Commerce
Feeds
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: April 6, 2001
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 6, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 6, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3760)
Apr 6, 2001
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of the United States, with respect to sugars, syrups, and molasses (excluding cane or beet sugar) that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, during any fiscal year under certain quantitative import restrictions (tariff-rate quotas), to establish a duty on such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 for human consumption, or such articles are used in any manner that circumvents any quota imposed under the Schedule.
Prohibits the imposition of a tariff-rate quota on molasses used for animal consumption or for the production of rum in the United States.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1