[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3464 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3464

         To prohibit the importation of gum arabic from Sudan.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 4, 2007

 Ms. Waters (for herself, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, and Mr. Berman) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
         To prohibit the importation of gum arabic from Sudan.

    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 ``Stop Importing Gum Arabic from the 
Genocidal Government of Sudan Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The President imposed comprehensive sanctions against 
        Sudan on November 3, 1997, under Executive Order No. 13067.
            (2) Congress passed legislation to allow for an exemption 
        from sanctions against Sudan for the importation of gum arabic 
        from Sudan, under section 1464 of the Tariff Suspension and 
        Trade Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-476; 114 Stat. 2173-2174), 
        which was signed into law on November 9, 2000.
            (3) Prior to the passage of section 1464 of the Tariff 
        Suspension and Trade Act of 2000, the United States gum arabic 
        processing industry was already working with the United States 
        Agency for International Development to develop alternative 
        sources of gum arabic in countries that were not subject to 
        United States sanctions.
            (4) Section 1464(c) of the Tariff Suspension and Trade Act 
        of 2000 required the President to utilize such authority as was 
        available to the President to promote the development in 
        countries other than Sudan of alternative sources of the 
        highest grade of gum arabic of sufficient commercial quality to 
        be utilized in products intended for human consumption.
            (5) The United States gum arabic processing industry and 
        United States companies that purchase gum arabic have had more 
        than six years since the passage of section 1464 of the Tariff 
        Suspension and Trade Act of 2000 to identify alternative 
        sources of gum arabic in countries that are not subject to 
        United States sanctions.
            (6) The Government of Sudan has been carrying out a 
        campaign of genocide against the people of the Darfur region of 
        Sudan since 2003.
            (7) More than 400,000 people have been killed and more than 
        2,500,000 people have been displaced in Darfur as a result of 
        this ongoing genocide.
            (8) In the 108th Congress, the House of Representatives 
        adopted House Concurrent Resolution 467 on July 22, 2004, by a 
        unanimous vote of 422-0, which declared that the atrocities 
        unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan are genocide.
            (9) On September 21, 2004, President George W. Bush stated 
        that the world is witnessing terrible suffering and horrible 
        crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan, crimes the Government of 
        the United States has concluded are genocide.
            (10) On May 29, 2007, President George W. Bush affirmed 
        that the Government of Sudan is complicit in the bombing, 
        murder, and rape of innocent civilians in Darfur and again 
        declared that these actions rightfully constitute genocide.
            (11) If the United States is serious about opposing 
        genocide in Darfur, the United States must enforce sanctions 
        against Sudan that are comprehensive and without exemptions.
            (12) The exemption from sanctions against Sudan for the 
        importation of gum arabic from Sudan should be eliminated.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF GUM ARABIC FROM SUDAN.

    (a) Repeal.--Section 1464 of the Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 
2000 (Public Law 106-476; 114 Stat. 2173-2174) is hereby repealed.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 2 of such 
Act is amended by striking the item relating to section 1464.
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