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Steel Import Stabilization Act

Introduced: September 25, 1984 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 16 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 16, 1984
Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, International Trade Commission, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Treasury Department, State Department, Commerce Department.
Oct 4, 1984
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 3, 1984
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 285 - 134 (Record Vote No: 438).
Oct 3, 1984
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 285 - 134 (Record Vote No: 438).
Oct 3, 1984
House Incorporated the Text of H.R.6301 as an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R.3398.
Oct 3, 1984
House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
Oct 3, 1984
Called up by House by Rule.
Oct 3, 1984
Rule Passed House.
Oct 1, 1984
Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.596 Reported to House.
Oct 1, 1984
Committee on Rules Granted a Modified Closed Rule Providing One Hour of General Debate; Waiving Certain Points of Order Against Consideration of the Bill.
Sep 27, 1984
Placed on Union Calendar No: 610.
Sep 27, 1984
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Ways and Means. Report No: 98-1089.
Sep 25, 1984
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Sep 25, 1984
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Sep 25, 1984
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 25, 1984
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Steel Import Stabilization Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should implement the national policy for the steel industry in a manner that restores the foreign share of the U.S. market for carbon and alloy steel products to approximately 17 percent; (2) the national policy for the steel industry should not be implemented in a manner contrary to the antitrust laws; and (3) if the national policy for the steel industry does not produce satisfactory results within a reasonable time, the Congress will consider taking legislative actions to stabilize conditions in the domestic market for steel and iron ore products. Defines the national policy for the steel industry as those actions and elements described in Executive Communication 4046, dated September 18, 1984.

Authorizes the President, subject to specified conditions, to carry out such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to enforce the quantitative limitations and restrictions contained in each bilateral arrangement (an arrangement made to implement the national policy for the steel industry) or other export measure required by a foreign government or customs union. Directs the President, in applying such authority, to cover all categories of carbon and steel alloy products, to avoid distortions among those categories, and to include all exporting countries and customs unions from which there are or have been surges in exports of those products to the United States. Terminates the authority of the President to carry out such actions: (1) five years after the effective date of this Act; or (2) at the close of the first, second, third, or fourth anniversary of such date unless the President submits a specified affirmative annual determination before each such anniversary to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. Defines an affirmative annual determination as a determination by the President that during the past year the steel industry has: (1) invested substantially all of its net cash flow from carbon and alloy steel product operations for purposes of reinvestment in, and modernization of, that industry; and (2) taken sufficient action to maintain its international competitiveness. Prohibits the President from finding compliance with the reinvestment and modernization requirement unless: (1) each major company with significant reinvestment or modernization needs has committed all of its net cash flow (except that required for retraining) from carbon and alloy steel product operations during the applicable 12-month period to meet those needs; and (2) each major company that has or reasonably anticipates significant unemployment in such operations has committed for the applicable 12-month period not less than one percent of such net cash flow to the retraining of workers, including those laid off at any time since January 1, 1982.

Directs the President in making such determination to take into account such information as may be available from the U.S. International Trade Commission and other appropriate sources.

Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to Congress, within six months of the effective date of this Act, a plan for assisting workers in communities that are adversely affected by imports of carbon and alloy steel products.

Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend through FY 1987 trade adjustment assistance for workers and firms.

What's happening now October 16, 1984

Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, International Trade Commission, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Treasury Department, State Department, Commerce Department.

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