[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1216 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1216

   To amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that the 
provisions relating to countervailing duties apply to nonmarket economy 
                               countries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2005

  Mr. English of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Davis of Alabama, Mr. 
 Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Souder, Mr. Coble, Mr. Visclosky, Mr. Holden, 
Mr. Hayes, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Case, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. McHugh, Mr. 
 Taylor of Mississippi, Mr. Kennedy of Minnesota, Mr. Barrett of South 
   Carolina, Mr. Jones of North Carolina, Mr. Berry, Mr. Doyle, Mr. 
    Reynolds, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Stupak, Mr. Lipinski, Ms. Hart, Mr. 
  Ruppersberger, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Brown of South Carolina, Mrs. 
Capito, Mr. Mollohan, Mr. Regula, Mr. Ney, and Mr. Gerlach) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
                                 Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that the 
provisions relating to countervailing duties apply to nonmarket economy 
                               countries.

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

SECTION 1. APPLICATION OF COUNTERVAILING DUTIES TO NONMARKET ECONOMY 
              COUNTRIES.

    Section 701(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671(a)(1)) 
is amended by inserting ``(including a nonmarket economy country)'' 
after ``country'' each place it appears.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 apply to petitions filed under 
section 702 of the Tariff Act of 1930 on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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