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HCONRES 277 98th Congress House Foreign Trade and International Finance Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Forced labor Foreign Trade and Investments Import restrictions Imports International Affairs Prison labor

A concurrent resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury to end the current delay in fully enforcing existing law, 19 U.S.C. 1307, regarding the ban on importation of "goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and indentured labor under penal sanctions".

Introduced: March 21, 1984 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 2, 1984
Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.
Mar 21, 1984
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 21, 1984
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the delay in the enforcement of a Smoot Hawley Tariff Act provision, which prohibits importation of goods mined or produced wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict, forced, or indentured labor under penal sanctions, is unacceptable to the Congress.

Requests the Secretary of the Treasury to end the delay in the enforcement of such provision and immediately prohibit the importation of such goods.

What's happening now April 2, 1984

Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.

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