[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3342 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3342

To establish a toll free number in the Department of Commerce to assist 
        consumers in determining if products are American-made.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 21, 1993

Mr. Traficant introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a toll free number in the Department of Commerce to assist 
        consumers in determining if products are American-made.

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

SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF TOLL FREE NUMBER.

    (a) Establishment.--Within 180 days of the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall establish a toll free number 
which may be used by consumers--
            (1) to determine if a product is made in America, and
            (2) learn where products may be purchased or learn a 
        telephone number which will provide information on the purchase 
        of products.
The Secretary shall publish the number in the Federal Register and 
undertake such outreach activities as may be appropriate to publicize 
the number.
    (b) Use.--Consumers who use the toll free number shall be informed 
that the product list is not complete but is derived from registrations 
under section 2.

SEC. 2. REGISTRATION.

    The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a procedure under which 
the manufacturer of a product which is made in America may register 
with the Secretary and have such product included in the information 
available through the toll free number established under section 1.

SEC. 3. PENALTY.

    Any manufacturer of a product who registers a product with the 
Secretary of Commerce under section 2 which is not made in America may 
not offer such product for purchase by the Federal Government and shall 
be subject to prosecution under section 5 of the Federal Trade 
Commission Act for making a deceptive claim.

SEC. 4. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``made in America'' means--
            (1) an unmanufactured end product mined or produced in the 
        United States, or
            (2) an end product manufactured in the United States if the 
        cost of its components mined, produced, or manufactured in the 
        United States exceeds 50 percent of the cost of all of its 
        components.

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