[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2897 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2897

  To provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of orange juice 
                  from Brazil, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 8, 2012

 Mr. Menendez introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of orange juice 
                  from Brazil, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. RELIQUIDATION OF CERTAIN ORANGE JUICE ENTRIES.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act of 
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1514) or any other provision of law, U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection shall, not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, liquidate or reliquidate the entries listed in 
subsection (c) in accordance with the final results of the 
administrative reviews undertaken by the International Trade 
Administration of the Department of Commerce with respect to the 
antidumping duty order on certain orange juice from Brazil (Case Number 
A-351-840) and covering the periods from August 24, 2005, through 
February 28, 2007, and from March 1, 2007, through February 29, 2008.
    (b) Payment of Amounts Owed.--Any amounts owed by the United States 
pursuant to the liquidation or reliquidation of an entry under 
subsection (a) shall be paid by U.S. Customs and Border Protection not 
later than 90 days after such liquidation or reliquidation with 
interest.
    (c) Affected Entries.--The entries referred to in subsection (a) 
are the following:


 
 
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Entry Number                                                             Date of Entry
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  032-0354213-3                                                          12/14/2006
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  032-0358707-0                                                          04/05/2007
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  032-0362302-4                                                          07/09/2007
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON COLLECTION OF CERTAIN PAYMENTS MADE UNDER THE 
              CONTINUED DUMPING AND SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law and 
except as provided in subsection (c), neither the Secretary of Homeland 
Security nor any other person may require repayment of, or attempt in 
any other way to recoup, any payments described in subsection (b) in an 
attempt to offset any amount to be refunded pursuant to section 1.
    (b) Payments Described.--Payments described in this subsection are 
payments of antidumping duties made pursuant to the Continued Dumping 
and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (section 754 of the Tariff Act of 1930 
(19 U.S.C. 1675c), repealed by subtitle F of title VII of the Deficit 
Reduction Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-171; 120 Stat. 154)) that were 
assessed and paid on imports of goods covered by section 1 when the 
entries for those goods were originally liquidated.
    (c) Limitation.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to 
prevent the Secretary of Homeland Security, or any other person, from 
requiring repayment of, or attempting to otherwise recoup, any payments 
described in subsection (b) as a result of a finding of false 
statements or other misconduct by a recipient of such a payment.
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