[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1366 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1366

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 16, 1993

  Mr. Regula (for himself, Mr. Borski, Mr. Visclosky, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. 
Lipinski, Mr. Ridge, Mr. Brown of Ohio, and Mr. Mineta) 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%'' in column 1 General and inserting 
        ``4.9%''; and
            (2) by striking ``5.5%'' in column 2 and inserting ``20%''.
    (d) Subheadings 7306.20.20 and 7306.60.10 are each amended--
            (1) by striking ``0.5%'' in column 1 General and inserting 
        ``4.9%''; and
            (2) by striking ``1%'' in column 2 and inserting ``20%''.
    (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                       Free (C, E, IL)  21.5%              
                            1.65 mm 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%'' in column 1 General and inserting 
        ``9.5%''; and
            (2) by striking ``10%'' in column 2 and inserting ``28%''.

SEC. 4. STAINLESS STEEL PIPES AND TUBES.

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

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. APPLICABILITY OF STAGED RATE REDUCTIONS UNDER THE UNITED 
              STATES-CANADA FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT.

    (a) Any staged reduction under the United States-Canada Free-Trade 
Agreement of special rates of duty for Canada set forth in subheading 
7306.30.30 applies to the corresponding special rate of duty set forth 
in subheading 7306.30.35.
    (b) Any staged reduction under the United States-Canada Free-Trade 
Agreement of special rates of duty for Canada set forth in subheading 
7306.30.50 applies to the corresponding special rate of duty set forth 
in subheading 7306.30.55.
    (c) Any staged reduction under the United States-Canada Free-Trade 
Agreement of special rates of duty for Canada set forth in subheading 
7306.30.55 (as redesignated by subsection (a)(2)) also applies to the 
corresponding special rate of duty set forth in subheading 7306.30.60.

SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Except as provided in section 8, the amendments made by sections 2, 
3 and 4, shall apply with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, beginning on--
    (a) the date on which the President enters into a multilateral 
trade agreement negotiated through the Uruguay Round under the General 
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; or
    (b) January 1, 1994.

SEC. 8. WAIVER.

    In the event that--
    (a) negotiations on market access and tariffs in the General 
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade provide for a tariff rate elimination 
schedule on steel products that will remove the tariff rate inversion 
on certain pipe and tube products; and
    (b) the President or the United States Trade Representative 
certifies in writing to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate that such 
schedule will eliminate such tariff inversion;
the provisions of this section shall not take effect.

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