[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2106 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2106

To exempt certain small businesses from the increased tariffs and other 
retaliatory measures imposed against products of the European Union in 
 response to the banana regime of the European Union and its treatment 
                        of imported bovine meat.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 1999

    Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. 
Andrews, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Frost, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Allen) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
                                 Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To exempt certain small businesses from the increased tariffs and other 
retaliatory measures imposed against products of the European Union in 
 response to the banana regime of the European Union and its treatment 
                        of imported bovine meat.

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

SECTION 1. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESS FROM INCREASED TARIFFS 
              ON CERTAIN PRODUCTS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an importer of goods of 
the European Union that are subject to increased tariffs pursuant to 
the announcements of the United States Trade Representative--
            (1) on March 3, 1999, in response to the banana regime of 
        the European Union, and
            (2) on March 22, 1999, in response to the ban by the 
        European Union on imports of beef from the United States that 
        has been treated with scientifically-proven safe hormones,
or any other such increased tariffs or retaliatory actions imposed in 
response to the actions of the European Union described in paragraphs 
(1) and (2), shall be exempt, to the extent provided in section 2, from 
such increases or retaliatory actions if the importer had fewer than 
100 employees during the 2 preceding calendar quarters.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON EXEMPTION.

    The exemption under section 1 shall apply to an importer in a 
calendar year for that quantity of an article which does not exceed 125 
percent of the quantity of the same article that is a product of the 
European Union and was imported by that importer during the preceding 
calendar year.
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