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S 576 99th Congress Senate Foreign Trade and International Finance Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages Alcohol as fuel Caribbean area Foreign Trade and Investments Gasoline Imports Motor Vehicles and Driving Petroleum and petroleum products Tariff

A bill to exclude from the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act ethyl alcohol used for fuel which is merely distilled or denatured in a beneficiary country.

Introduced: March 5, 1985 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 11, 1985
Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department.
Mar 5, 1985
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 5, 1985
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to exclude from eligibility for duty-free treatment ethyl alcohol and any mixture containing ethyl alcohol which is suitable for use as a fuel or for creating specified fuel mixtures which has merely been subjected to distillation or denaturing within a beneficiary country (one of certain Caribbean countries).

Refunds all duties paid on such alcohol or mixture upon proof that such alcohol or mixture was not and can no longer be used as fuel or to produce the specified fuel mixtures. Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to establish refund procedures.

Restricts application of this Act to articles enentered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after 15 days of enactment of this Act and before January 1, 1993.

What's happening now March 11, 1985

Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1