[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3432 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3432

   To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that 5-year reviews of 
 countervailing duty or antidumping duty orders would not be conducted 
  in certain cases in which the merchandise subject to the orders was 
prohibited from being imported into the United States because of trade 
    sanctions imposed against the country in which the merchandise 
                              originates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 1998

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that 5-year reviews of 
 countervailing duty or antidumping duty orders would not be conducted 
  in certain cases in which the merchandise subject to the orders was 
prohibited from being imported into the United States because of trade 
    sanctions imposed against the country in which the merchandise 
                              originates.

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

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION TO 5-YEAR REVIEWS OF COUNTERVAILING DUTY OR 
              ANTIDUMPING DUTY ORDERS.

    Section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1751(c)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Exclusions from computations.--(A) Subject to 
        subparagraph (B), there shall be excluded from the computation 
        of the 5-year period described in paragraph (1) and the periods 
        described in paragraph (6) any period during which the 
        importation of the subject merchandise is prohibited on account 
        of the imposition, under the International Emergency Economic 
        Powers Act or other provision of law, of sanctions by the 
        United States against the country in which the subject 
        merchandise originates.
            ``(B) Subparagraph (A) shall apply only with respect to 
        subject merchandise which originates in a country that is not a 
        WTO member.''.
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