[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1989 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1989

  To provide that, for purposes of making determinations for certain 
trade remedies and trade adjustment assistance, imported semi-finished 
steel slabs and taconite pellets produced in the United States shall be 
considered to be articles like or directly competitive with each other.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 9, 2003

  Mr. Dayton 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 making determinations for certain 
trade remedies and trade adjustment assistance, imported semi-finished 
steel slabs and taconite pellets produced in the United States shall be 
considered to be articles like or directly competitive with each other.

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

SECTION 1. 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 semi-finished steel slabs, taconite pellets produced in the United 
States shall be considered to be an article like or directly 
competitive with such semi-finished steel slabs.

SEC. 2. COUNTERVAILING AND ANTIDUMPING DUTY DETERMINATIONS.

    In any case in which semi-finished steel slabs are the subject of 
an investigation under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930, taconite 
pellets produced in the United States shall be considered to be a 
domestic like product with respect to such semi-finished steel slabs.

SEC. 3. DETERMINATIONS OF ELIGIBILITY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE 
              IN CASES INVOLVING TACONITE PELLETS.

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

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Semi-finished steel slab.--The term ``semi-finished 
        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 is--
                    (A) 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.
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