[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2902 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 2902

 To suspend tariff reductions on winter tomatoes imported from Mexico 
until the President certifies to the Congress that existing mechanisms 
are sufficient to protect the domestic industry from import surges from 
                                Mexico.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 1996

   Mr. Goss introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To suspend tariff reductions on winter tomatoes imported from Mexico 
until the President certifies to the Congress that existing mechanisms 
are sufficient to protect the domestic industry from import surges from 
                                Mexico.

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

SECTION 1. SUSPENSION OF TARIFF REDUCTIONS ON TOMATOES.

    The President shall, unless and until the certification is made 
under section 2--
            (1) suspend tariff reductions under the North American Free 
        Trade Agreement on fresh or chilled tomatoes provided for under 
        subheading 0702.00.60 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
        United States that are products of Mexico; and
            (2) impose on tomatoes described in paragraph (1) the rate 
        of duty that was in effect for such tomatoes on December 31, 
        1993.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION.

    (a) Certification.--Section 1 shall cease to apply if the President 
certifies to the Congress that the safeguard provided for in article 
703 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the monitoring required 
by section 316 of the North American Free Trade Agreement 
Implementation Act, and the provisions for relief of domestic industry 
under subtitle A of title III of that Act, and title II of the Trade 
Act of 1974, are enforceable and effective mechanisms to protect 
domestic producers of fresh or chilled tomatoes from surges in imports 
from Mexico of tomatoes described in section 1(1).
    (b) Effect of Certification.--If a certification is made under 
subsection (a), the rate of duty on tomatoes described in section 1(1) 
shall be the rate of duty that would apply under the North American 
Free Trade Agreement but for section 1.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Section 1 applies to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on or after the 15th day after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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