[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4762 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4762

To impose a temporary ban on the importation of certain steel products 
        from Japan, Russia, and Brazil, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 1998

    Mr. Aderholt (for himself, Mr. Ney, Mr. Regula, Mr. Walsh, Mr. 
  Traficant, Mr. Dickey, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Mr. Evans, Mr. 
 Holden, Mr. Brown of Ohio, and Mr. Kucinich) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To impose a temporary ban on the importation of certain steel products 
        from Japan, Russia, and Brazil, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. TEMPORARY BAN ON STEEL IMPORTS FROM JAPAN, RUSSIA, AND 
              BRAZIL.

    No hot-rolled steel products or plate steel products that are the 
product or manufacture of Japan, Russia, or Brazil may enter the 
customs territory of the United States, effective for the 1-year period 
beginning 10 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 2. ASSESSMENT OF ANTIDUMPING DUTIES.

    (a) Retroactive Assessment of Duties.--In any case in which 
antidumping duties are imposed upon steel products of a foreign country 
pursuant to subtitle B of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930, the 
Secretary of Commerce shall, in addition to assessing such duties on 
entries made after the effective date of the antidumping order, assess 
such duties on entries made prior to that effective date for such 
period as the dumping occurred prior to the issuance of the order, but 
in no case earlier than 1 year before the date on which--
            (1) the applicable petition was filed under section 732(b) 
        of the Tariff Act of 1930, or
            (2) the Secretary initiated the investigation under section 
        732(a) of that Act,
as the case may be.
    (b) Applicability.--Subsection (a) applies to any antidumping 
proceeding pending on, or initiated on or after, the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of the Congress that the President should respond 
to complaints filed by trading partners of the United States regarding 
the prohibition on imports of their steel products required by section 
1 by addressing the failure of the governments of those countries to 
make their companies abide by the spirit and letter of international 
trade agreements with respect to dumping and by stating that such a 
deliberate assault on United States steel markets constitutes a 
legitimate national security concern, since a viable domestic steel 
industry is crucial to the readiness of, and timely production of 
materials for, the Armed Forces of the United States.
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