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HR 1720 99th Congress House Foreign Trade and International Finance Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages Alcohol as fuel Caribbean area Foreign Trade and Investments Imports Motor Vehicles and Driving Petroleum and petroleum products Tariff

A bill to ensure payment of the regular duties imposed on imported ethyl alcohol and payment of the additional duty imposed on ethyl alcohol when imported for use in producing a mixture of gasoline…

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A bill to ensure payment of the regular duties imposed on imported ethyl alcohol and payment of the additional duty imposed on ethyl alcohol when imported for use in producing a mixture of gasoline and alcohol or used otherwise as fuel.

Introduced: March 26, 1985 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 8 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 9, 1986
See H.R.4800.
Feb 6, 1986
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Jul 10, 1985
Executive Comment Received From Commerce.
Jul 10, 1985
Executive Comment Received From ITC.
Apr 8, 1985
Executive Comment Requested from State, Treasury, Commerce, Labor, USDA, Customs, ITC, USTR.
Mar 29, 1985
Referred to Subcommittee on Trade.
Mar 26, 1985
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 26, 1985
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide a duty on certain ethyl alcohol that is used as a fuel. Provides, under specified circumstances, for a refund of additional duties paid on such alcohol.

Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to exclude ethyl alcohol and any mixture containing such alcohol as a product from a beneficiary country (certain Caribbean countries) or from eligibility for duty-free treatment if it has merely been subjected to distillation, denaturing, or blending with other ethyl alcohol within a beneficiary country.

What's happening now May 9, 1986

See H.R.4800.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 4800 Related bill Trade and International Economic Policy Reform Act of 1986
  • S 2051 Identical bill A bill to ensure payment of the regular duties imposed on imported ethyl alcohol and payment of the additional duty imp…
 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Jul 18, 1985
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1720: A bill to ensure payment of the regular duties imposed on imported ethyl alcohol and payment of the additional duty imposed on ethyl alcohol when imported for use in producing a mixture of gasoline and alcohol or used otherwise as fuel.. 99th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/99-HR-1720/
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"H.R. 1720: A bill to ensure payment of the regular duties imposed on imported ethyl alcohol and payment of the additional duty imposed on ethyl alcohol when imported for use in producing a mixture of gasoline and alcohol or used otherwise as fuel.." 99th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/99-HR-1720/.
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H.R. 1720, 99th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/99-HR-1720/.
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