[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1598 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1598

   To establish a definition of ``made in America or the equivalent 
                 thereof'' for purposes of Federal law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 1995

Mr. Traficant introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
   To establish a definition of ``made in America or the equivalent 
                 thereof'' for purposes of Federal law.
    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 ``Made in America Clarification Act of 
1995''.

SEC. 2. BUY AMERICAN.

    For purposes of title III of the Act of March 3, 1933 (commonly 
known as the ``Buy American Act'') (41 U.S.C. 10a-10d), any other 
Federal law or regulation which governs the acquisition of products for 
the Federal Government, or for any Federal law or regulation which 
prescribes a standard for labeling of products as being made in America 
or an equivalent standard, the term ``made in America or the equivalent 
thereof'' 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 
        value of its components mined, produced, or manufactured in the 
        United States equals 65 percent or more of the total value of 
        all of its components.
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