[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 422 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 422

   To provide that, for purposes of certain trade remedies, imported 
     semifinished steel slab shall be treated as like or directly 
                   competitive with taconite pellets.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 1, 2001

 Mr. Wellstone (for himself, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Levin, and Ms. Stabenow) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                          Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that, for purposes of certain trade remedies, imported 
     semifinished steel slab shall be treated as like or directly 
                   competitive with taconite pellets.

    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 ``Taconite Workers Relief Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Semifinished steel slab.--The term ``semifinished steel 
        slab'' means a cold rectangular steel section having a minimum 
        thickness of 1\1/2\ inches and a minimum width not less than 
        twice the thickness, which is converted into finished steel 
        products by reheating and further hot working.
            (2) Taconite pellet.--The term ``taconite pellet'' means a 
        pellet that--
                    (A) is made from very finely divided iron ore 
                concentrates formed and hardened by firing;
                    (B) is larger than \1/4\ inch but smaller than \3/
                4\ inch in diameter; and
                    (C) contains 60 to 67 percent iron.

SEC. 3. POSITIVE ADJUSTMENT BY INDUSTRIES INJURED BY IMPORTS.

    For purposes of making a determination under section 202(b) of the 
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2252(b)) with respect to increased imports 
of semifinished steel slab, taconite pellets produced in the United 
States shall be considered to be an article that is like or directly 
competitive with semifinished steel slab.

SEC. 4. DETERMINATIONS OF ELIGIBILITY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE 
              IN CASES INVOLVING TACONITE PELLETS.

    For purposes of determining, under section 222 or 250 of the Trade 
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2272 and 2331), the eligibility of a group of 
workers for adjustment assistance under chapter 2 of title II of the 
Trade Act of 1974, increased imports of semifinished steel slabs shall 
be considered to be articles like or directly competitive with taconite 
pellets

SEC. 5. COUNTERVAILING AND ANTIDUMPING DUTY DETERMINATIONS.

    In any case in which semifinished steel slabs are the subject of an 
investigation under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 
et seq.), taconite pellets produced in the United States shall be 
considered to be a domestic like product with respect to semifinished 
steel slabs.
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