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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 See on congress.gov
This bill died when the 107th Congress ended
It never became law before the 107th Congress (2001–2002) 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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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
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 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of the United States, with respect to sugars, syrups, and molasses (excluding cane or beet sugar) that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, during any fiscal year under certain quantitative import restrictions (tariff-rate quotas), to establish a duty on such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 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 April 6, 2001

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 753: A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas.. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-753/
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"S. 753: A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prevent circumvention of the sugar tariff-rate quotas.." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-753/.
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S. 753, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-753/.
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