[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1236 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1236

To correct the tariff rate inversion on certain iron and steel pipe and 
                             tube products.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 1993

  Mr. Regula (for himself, Mr. Borski, Mr. Visclosky, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. 
 Lipinski, Mr. Ridge, and Mr. Brown of Ohio) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To correct the tariff rate inversion on certain iron and steel pipe and 
                             tube products.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pipe and Tube Inverted Tariff 
Correction Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. NONALLOY IRON AND STEEL PIPES AND TUBES.

    (a) The superior article description for subheadings 7306.30.30 and 
7306.30.50 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (19 
U.S.C. 3007) is amended to read as follows: ``Having a wall thickness 
of 1.65 mm or more, not galvanized:''.
    (b) Subheadings 7306.30.30 and 7306.30.50 are redesignated as 
subheadings 7306.30.35 and 7306.30.55, respectively.
    (c) Subheadings 7306.10.10, 7306.20.60, 7306.30.55 (as redesignated 
by paragraph (b)), and 7306.90.10 are each amended--
            (1) by striking ``1.9 percent'' in column 1 General and 
        inserting ``4.9 percent''; and
            (2) by striking ``5.5 percent'' in column 2 and inserting 
        ``20 percent''.
    (d) Subheadings 7306.20.20 and 7306.60.10 are each amended--
            (1) by striking ``0.5 percent'' in column 1 General and 
        inserting ``4.9 percent''; and
            (2) by striking ``1 percent'' in column 2 and inserting 
        ``20 percent''.
    (e) Chapter 73 is amended by inserting in numerical order the 
following new subheading having the same degree of indentation as the 
superior text for subheadings 7306.30.35 and 7306.30.55 (as 
redesignated by paragraph (b)):

      

       ``  7306.30.60  Having a wall thickness of 1.65mm                    Free (C, E, IL)  21.5%              
                        or more, galvanized..............  6.5%              1.1% (CA)                        ''

SEC. 3. ALLOY IRON AND STEEL PIPES AND TUBES.

    (a) Subheadings 7306.50.50 and 7306.90.50 are each amended--
            (1) by striking ``4.9 percent'' in column 1 General and 
        inserting ``9.5 percent''; and
            (2) by striking ``10 percent'' in column 2 and inserting 
        ``28 percent''.

SEC. 4. STAINLESS STEEL PIPES AND TUBES.

    (a) Subheading 7306.40.10 is amended by striking ``7.6 percent'' in 
column 1 General and inserting ``10.1 percent''.
    (b) Subheading 7306.40.50 is amended--
            (1) by striking ``5 percent'' in column 1 General and 
        inserting ``10.1 percent''; and
            (2) by striking ``11 percent'' in column 2 and inserting 
        ``29 percent''.

SEC. 5. NEGOTIATING AUTHORITY.

    In the event that a claim for compensation under any provision of 
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or any other trade agreement 
to which the United States is a party is made by any Contracting Party 
to that agreement as a result of the amendments made by this section, 
the United States Trade Representative is authorized to negotiate such 
reasonable compensation as may be appropriate.

SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to 
articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
after the fifteenth day after the date of enactment of this Act.

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