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S 2900 116th Congress Senate

Play by the Rules Act of 2019

Official title: A bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to prevent the circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duties by nonmarket economy countries, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 19, 2019 Introduced by: Baldwin, Tammy Democratic · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsTariffs
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Nov 19, 2019
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 Latest action November 19, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Play by the Rules Act of 2019

This bill subjects certain merchandise from a nonmarket economy country (a foreign country that does not operate on market principles of cost or pricing structures) to existing antidumping or countervailing duty orders.

The Department of Commerce shall include any merchandise from a nonmarket economy country that is only slightly altered in form or appearance within the class or kind of merchandise that is already subject to (1) an investigation, (2) an antidumping duty order, (3) a finding under the Antidumping Act of 1921, or (4) a countervailing duty order.

Additionally, Commerce may include within the scope of an investigation, order, or finding any merchandise from a nonmarket economy country that is (1) slightly altered in form or appearance but was not previously included within the scope of such investigation, order, or finding; or (2) interchangeable with imports that are already subject to such investigation, order, or finding.

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All 2 Republican 2
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Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Nov 19, 2019
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Cassidy, Bill
Louisiana · Nov 19, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2900: Play by the Rules Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2900/
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