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Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000

Act Details

Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000 was a proposal (now, a piece of legislation) introduced on 2000-07-18 in the House of Commons and Senate respectively of the 106 United States Congress by Philip Miller Crane in relation with: Administrative procedure, Advertising, Africa (Sub-Saharan), Agriculture and food, Agriculture in foreign trade, Air cargo, Aircraft, Airlines, Airports, Alcohol, Animals, Athletes, Business records, Cats, Ceramics, Chemicals, Cigarettes, Clothing industry, Commerce, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Copper, Cotton, Crime and law enforcement, Customs administration, Department of the Treasury, Destruction of property, Disabled, Dogs, Drugs, Dyes and dyeing, Electronic data interchange, Electronics, Energy, Environmental protection, Equipment and supplies, Executive orders, Export controls, Federal law enforcement officers, Ferries, Finance and financial sector, Fines (Penalties), Florida, Food additives, Foreign trade and international finance, Forfeiture, Fungicides, Fur trade, Glass and glass industry, Gold, Government operations and politics, Government paperwork, Government statistics, Hazardous waste site remediation, Health, Health warnings, Herbicides, Import restrictions, Imports, Insect control, Interest, International affairs, Labeling, Labor and employment, Law, Machine tools, Machinery in industry, Merchant ships, Metal trade, Metals, Michigan, Mine wastes, Mines and mineral resources, New products, Olympic games, Oxygenates, Packaging, Pesticides, Photographic film, Police training, Polymers, Private aviation, Product development, Public lands and natural resources, Quality control, Raw materials, Reformulated gasoline, Rubber industry, Sanctions (International law), Science, technology, communications, Scientific instruments and apparatus, Soccer, Sports and recreation, Storage, Sudan, Surety and fidelity, Tariff, Telephone, Television, Texas, Tobacco, Tobacco exports, Trade adjustment assistance, Transportation and public works, Tungsten, Video display terminals, Warning labels.

Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000 became law (1) in the United States on 2000-11-09. It was referred to the following Committee(s): (2)

House Ways and Means (HSWM)
sub Subcommittee on Trade (sub 04)

Sponsor

Philip Miller Crane, member of the US congress
Philip Miller Crane, Republican, Representative from Illinois, district 8

The proposal had the following cosponsors:

Neil Abercrombie, Democrat, Representative, from Hawaii, district 1
Richard Hugh Baker, Republican, Representative, from Louisiana, district 6
John Elias Baldacci, Democrat, Representative, from Maine, district 2
Tammy Baldwin, Senator, from Wisconsin, district 2
James A. Barcia, Democrat, Representative, from Michigan, district 5
Herbert Harvell Bateman, Republican, Representative, from Virginia, district 1
Shelley Berkley, Representative, from Nevada, district 1
Michael Bilirakis, Republican, Representative, from Florida, district 9
Rod R. Blagojevich, Democrat, Representative, from Illinois, district 5
Sherwood Louis Boehlert, Republican, Representative, from New York, district 23
Corrine Brown, Democrat, Representative, from Florida, district 3
Steve Buyer, Representative, from Indiana, district 5
Julia May Carson, Democrat, Representative, from Indiana, district 10
Eva M. Clayton, Democrat, Representative, from North Carolina, district 1
Bob Clement, Representative, from Tennessee, district 5
Larry Ed Combest, Republican, Representative, from Texas, district 19
Jerry Francis Costello, Democrat, Representative, from Illinois, district 12
Robert E. (bud) Cramer, Democrat, Representative, from Alabama, district 5
Jim Davis, Democrat, Representative, from Florida, district 11
Peter Anthony Defazio, Democrat, Representative, from Oregon, district 4
Rosa L. Delauro, Democrat, Representative, from Connecticut, district 3
Jim DeMint, Senator, from South Carolina, district 4
Lincoln Diaz-balart, Republican, Representative, from Florida, district 21
Michael F. Doyle, Democrat, Representative, from Pennsylvania, district 18
Jennifer Blackburn Dunn, Republican, Representative, from Washington, district 8
Jo Ann Emerson, Republican, Representative, from Missouri, district 8
Lane Allen Evans, Democrat, Representative, from Illinois, district 17
Robert Terry Everett, Republican, Representative, from Alabama, district 2
Bob Filner, Democrat, Representative, from California, district 50
Tillie Kidd Fowler, Republican, Representative, from Florida, district 4
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, Republican, Representative, from New Jersey, district 11
Jim Gibbons, Representative, from Nevada, district 2
Charles A. Gonzalez, Democrat, Representative, from Texas, district 20
Raymond Eugene (gene) Green, Democrat, Representative, from Texas, district 29
Luis Gutierrez, Representative, from Illinois, district 4
Ralph Moody Hall, Republican, Representative, from Texas, district 4
James Vear Hansen, Republican, Representative, from Utah, district 1
Doc Hastings, Republican, Representative, from Washington, district 4
John D. Hayworth, Republican, Representative, from Arizona, district 6
Baron P. Hill, Democrat, Representative, from Indiana, district 9
Maurice Dunlea Hinchey, Democrat, Representative, from New York, district 26
Ruben Hinojosa, Representative, from Texas, district 15
David Lee Hobson, Republican, Representative, from Ohio, district 7
Thomas Timothy (tim) Holden, Democrat, Representative, from Pennsylvania, district 6
Darlene Hooley, Democrat, Representative, from Oregon, district 5
Amory Houghton, Republican, Representative, from New York, district 31
Johnny Isakson, Republican, Senator, from Georgia, district 6
Nancy Lee Johnson, Republican, Representative, from Connecticut, district 6
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Democrat, Representative, from Ohio, district 11
Marcia Carolyn (marcy) Kaptur, Democrat, Representative, from Ohio, district 9
Dale Kildee, Representative, from Michigan, district 9
Gerald Daniel Kleczka, Democrat, Representative, from Wisconsin, district 4
Jim Kolbe, Representative, from Arizona, district 5
Ray H. Lahood, Republican, Representative, from Illinois, district 18
John B. Larson, Democrat, Representative, from Connecticut, district 1
Steven LaTourette, Representative, from Ohio, district 19
Enrico A. (rick) Lazio, Republican, Representative, from New York, district 2
Frank A. Lobiondo, Republican, Representative, from New Jersey, district 2
Zoe Lofgren, Democrat, Representative, from California, district 16
Frank D. Lucas, Republican, Representative, from Oklahoma, district 6
Donald Manzullo, Representative, from Illinois, district 16
Frank R. Mascara, Democrat, Representative, from Pennsylvania, district 20
Bill McCollum, Representative, from Florida, district 8
John McHugh, Representative, from New York, district 24
Howard P. (buck) Mckeon, Republican, Representative, from California, district 25
Jack Metcalf, Republican, Representative, from Washington, district 2
David R. Minge, Democrat, Representative, from Minnesota, district 2
John Joseph Moakley, Democrat, Representative, from Massachusetts, district 9
Alan Mollohan, Representative, from West Virginia, district 1
Constance A. Morella, Republican, Representative, from Maryland, district 8
John Murtha, Representative, from Pennsylvania, district 12
George R. Nethercutt, Republican, Representative, from Washington, district 5
Robert William Ney, Republican, Representative, from Ohio, district 18
David Obey, Representative, from Wisconsin, district 7
Doug Ose, Republican, Representative, from California, district 3
Collin Clark Peterson, Democrat, Representative, from Minnesota, district 7
Thomas Evert Petri, Republican, Representative, from Wisconsin, district 6
Earl Pomeroy, Representative, from North Dakota
Deborah D. Pryce, Republican, Representative, from Ohio, district 15
John Francis (jack) Quinn, Republican, Representative, from New York, district 30
Nick Joe Rahall, Democrat, Representative, from West Virginia, district 3
Silvestre Reyes, Representative, from Texas, district 16
Thomas M. Reynolds, Republican, Representative, from New York, district 27
Ciro Rodriguez, Representative, from Texas, district 28
Dana Rohrabacher, Republican, Representative, from California, district 45
Carlos Romero-Barcelo, Representative
Steven Rothman, Representative, from New Jersey, district 9
Lucille Roybal-allard, Democrat, Representative, from California, district 33
Bernard Sanders, Independent, Senator, from Vermont
Tom Sawyer, Representative, from Ohio, district 14
John M. Shimkus, Republican, Representative, from Illinois, district 20
Ronnie Shows, Representative, from Mississippi, district 4
Christopher Henry Smith, Republican, Representative, from New Jersey, district 4
Lamar Seeligson Smith, Republican, Representative, from Texas, district 21
Vic Snyder, Representative, from Arkansas, district 2
John Spratt, Representative, from South Carolina, district 5
Cliff Stearns, Representative, from Florida, district 6
Ted Strickland, Democrat, Representative, from Ohio, district 6
Bart Stupak, Representative, from Michigan, district 1
John E. Sununu, Republican, Senator, from New Hampshire, district 1
John E. Sweeney, Republican, Representative, from New York, district 22
Gene Taylor, Representative, from Mississippi, district 5
Todd Tiahrt, Representative, from Kansas, district 4
John F. Tierney, Democrat, Representative, from Massachusetts, district 6
Tom Udall, Senator, from New Mexico, district 3
Robert Underwood, Representative
Fred Upton, Representative, from Michigan, district 6
Zach Wamp, Representative, from Tennessee, district 3
Henry Arnold Waxman, Democrat, Representative, from California, district 29
Wayne Edward (ed) Whitfield, Republican, Representative, from Kentucky, district 1
Frank Rudolph Wolf, Republican, Representative, from Virginia, district 10

Act Overview

Number: 4868 (3)
Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify temporarily certain rates of duty, to make other technical amendments to the trade laws, and for other purposes (4)
Short Title: Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000
Date First Introduced: 2000-07-18
Sponsor Name: Philip Miller Crane
Assignment Process: See Committe Assignments (5)
Latest Major Activity/Action: Enacted
Date Enacted (signed, in general (6), by President): 2000-11-09
Type: hr (7)
Main Topic: Foreign trade and international finance
Related Bills: (8)
hres644-106, Reason: related, Type: bill
hres644-106, Reason: unknown, Type: bill
sconres152-106, Reason: related, Type: bill
Summary of Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000: Govtrack. Authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress.
Primary Source: Congress Website

Text of the Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000

Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000 – Title I: Tariff Provisions – Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to repeal certain expired provisions providing for temporary reductions in rates of duty with respect to specified articles.Subtitle A: Temporary Duty Suspensions and Reductions – Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for temporary duty suspensions through December 31 2003 for: (1) certain HIV-AIDS drugs; (2) specified chemicals and dyes; (3) instant print film in rolls; (4) certain cathode-ray tubes; (5) certain raw cotton; (6) rhinovirus drugs; (7) tungsten concentrates; (8) certain ion-exchange resin; (9) vision inspection systems; (10) anode presses; (11) trim and form machines; (12) certain assembly machines; (13) certain herbicides fungicides and pesticides; (14) certain self-adhesive sheets; (15) certain polyamides; (16) certain plastic additives; (17) molds for use in certain DVDs; (18) certain compound optical microscopes; (19) a certain organic surface-active agent; (20) monochrome glass envelopes; (21) ceramic coater for laying down and drying ceramic; (22) ceramic knives; and (23) certain stainless steel railcar body shells.Reduces the duty through December 31 2003 on: (1) color instant print film; (2) other cathode-ray tubes; (3) a certain food supplement; (4) a certain herbicide and fungicide; (5) specified chemicals; (6) certain semiconductor mold compounds; (7) bonding machines for use in the manufacture of DVDs; and (8) certain steam or other vapor generating boilers used in nuclear facilities.Provides for temporary duty suspensions through December 31 2001 for: (1) a specified drug; and (2) a certain herbicide. Reduces the duty on such items for the period December 31 2002 through December 31 2003.Reduces the duty on a certain chemical for the period December 31 2000 through December 31 2003.Reduces the duty on specified chemicals for the period December 31 2001 through December 31 2003.Increases the duty on a specified dye through December 31 2000. Reduces the duty on specified dyes for the period December 31 2001 through December 2002.Extends the existing suspension of duty through December 31 2003 for: (1) certain chemicals and dyes; (2) a certain polymer; (3) certain semi-manufactured forms of gold; (4) certain rolled glass; and (5) substrates of synthetic quartz or synthetic fused silica.Extends the existing duty reduction on a specified chemical through December 31 2003.Provides a duty on methyl esters through December 31 2001. Increases the duty on such chemicals through December 31 2003.Amends the Harmonized Tariff of the United States to grant duty-free treatment to certain machines used in the manufacture of radial tires designed for off-the-highway use and with a rim measuring 63.5cm (currently 86cm) or more in diameter through December 31 2001.Grants duty-free treatment to certain chemicals through December 31 2003.Subtitle B: Other Tariff Provisions – Directs the U.S. Customs service to liquidate or reliquidate (refund duty on) specified entries with respect to: (1) certain telephone systems; (2) certain color television receivers; (3) copper and brass sheet and strips; (4) certain antifriction bearings; (5) certain printing cartridges; (6) a certain chemical; (7) tomato sauce preparation (including certain tomato sauce preparation entered in 1990 through 1992; 1989 through 1995; and 1989 through 1990); (8) neoprene synchronous timing belts; (9) certain drawback claims (including drawback claims for certain juices athletic shoes and petroleum derivatives); (10) certain self-tapping screws; (11) certain vacuum cleaners; and (12) certain conveyor chains.Product Development and Testing Act of 2000 – Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to grant duty-free treatment to imports of prototypes used to promote product development testing product evaluation or quality control in the United States. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate regulations regarding the identification and sale of such prototypes.Dog and Cat Protection Act of 2000 – Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make it unlawful for any person to: (1) import into or export from the United States any dog or cat fur product; or (2) introduce into interstate commerce manufacture for introduction into interstate commerce sell or offer to sell trade advertise or transport or distribute in interstate commerce any dog or cat fur product. Sets forth certain exceptions. Subjects a person to certain civil penalties (including publication of the names of violators) for violations of this Act.(Sec. 1451) Changes from discretionary to mandatory the Secretary of the Treasury's authority to prescribe an alternative mid-point interest accounting methodology with respect to the assessment of interest due to an underpayment of duties fees or interest.(Sec. 1452) Exempts from provisions requiring the arrival of certain vessels to be reported the arrival of or make formal entry at a U.S. customhouse of any: (1) vessel carrying bonded merchandise; and (2) vessel required to anchor at the Belle Isle Anchorage Michigan for purposes of awaiting the availability of cargo or berthing space or for taking on a pilot or awaiting pilot services or at the direction of the Coast Guard before proceeding to the Port of Toledo Ohio where the vessel makes entry or obtains clearance to enter a customhouse.(Sec. 1453) Directs the Commissioner of the Customs Service to designate the San Antonio International Airport in San Antonio Texas as an airport at which certain private aircraft arriving in the United States from a foreign area may land for processing by the Customs Service.(Sec. 1454) Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish by regulation a separate class of bonded warehouse for the storage and manipulation of international travel merchandise (duty-free or domestic merchandise which is placed on board aircraft on international flights for sale to passengers but which is not merchandise incidental to the operation of a duty-free sales enterprise) pending its placement on board aircraft departing for foreign destinations. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to the treatment of such merchandise stored at bonded warehouses and staging areas (outside of the warehouse).(Sec. 1455) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to decrease the rate of duty over a specified period of time on goods purchased abroad and brought back into the United States by U.S. travelers.(Sec. 1456) Grants duty-free treatment to the personal effects of and other equipment imported and used by participants their families and associated members and officials involved in an athletic event held in the United States like the Olympics and Paralympics the Goodwill Games the Special Olympics World Games the World Cup Soccer Games or any similar international athletic event. Declares that such articles shall be: (1) free of applicable taxes and fees; but (2) not exempt from routine customs inspections.(Sec. 1457) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to permit collection of customs fees for the arrival of certain ferries.(Sec. 1458) Directs the U.S. Customs Service to treat N-cyclohexyl-2-benzothiazolesulfenamide and N-tert-Butyl-2-benzothiazolesulfenamide as 'commercially interchangeable” for purposes of allowing a drawback (refund of duty) on imports of N-cyclohexyl-2-benzothiazolesulfenamide (certain rubber vulcanized accelerators).(Sec. 1459) Authorizes the Commissioner of Customs to establish a fee-for-service agreement at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (Florida) to provide personnel and infrastructure necessary to conduct cargo clearance inspection or other customs services as needed to accommodate air cargo carriers for a two year period at such airport.(Sec. 1460) Authorizes the U.S. Customs Service upon application of an importer in advance to treat as a single entry for tariff treatment purposes certain merchandise that is purchased and invoiced as a single entity but is shipped in an unassembled condition in separate shipments due to the size or nature of such merchandise or in separate shipments due to the inability of the carrier to include all of the merchandise in a single shipment (at the instruction of the carrier).(Sec. 1461) Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to Congress on U.S. customs procedures.(Sec. 1462) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide a drawback (refund of duty) on materials which compose an imported article and are destroyed (includes a process by which such materials are recovered (recycled) from such article.(Sec. 1463) Exempts certain reporting requirements regarding trade agreements and the National Trade Estimates from sunset provisions under the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995.(Sec. 1464) Sets forth certain requirements with respect to the application for a license for the import of gum arabic from the Republic of Sudan. Directs the President to promote the development of gum arabic in countries other than the Sudan.(Sec. 1465) Directs the Commissioner of the Customs Service to re- implement the policy in effect prior to January 1 1999 at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport to provide services on a reimbursable basis at remote locations of such airport.Subtitle C: Effective Date – Sets forth the effective date of this Act.Title II: Other Trade Provisions – Declares that a worker shall be certified by the Secretary of Labor as eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance under the Trade Act of 1974 if such worker was: (1) employed at the copper mining facility referenced in Trade Adjustment Assistance Certification TA-W-31402; and (2) necessary for the environmental remediation or closure of such mining facility.(Sec. 2002) Makes the basic pay rate for the Chief Agricultural Negotiator at Level III of the Executive Schedule.Title III: Extension of Nondiscriminatory Treatment to Georgia – Authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of the Republic of Georgia.Title IV: Imported Cigarette Compliance – Imported Cigarette Compliance Act of 2000 – Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to cigarettes manufactured for export (or transferred or removed from a manufacturers' premises or exporters' warehouse) but which nevertheless are sold domestically. Sets additional restrictions on tobacco products labeled for export.(Sec. 4004) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to set forth certain restrictions with respect to the importation of certain cigarettes. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of such requirements.

Analysis

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Administrative procedure
Advertising
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Agriculture and food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Air cargo
Aircraft
Airlines
Airports
Alcohol
Animals
Athletes
Business records
Cats
Ceramics
Chemicals
Cigarettes
Clothing industry
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Copper
Cotton
Crime and law enforcement
Customs administration
Department of the Treasury
Destruction of property
Disabled
Dogs
Drugs
Dyes and dyeing
Electronic data interchange
Electronics
Energy
Environmental protection
Equipment and supplies
Executive orders
Export controls
Federal law enforcement officers
Ferries
Finance and financial sector
Fines (Penalties)
Florida
Food additives
Foreign trade and international finance
Forfeiture
Fungicides
Fur trade
Glass and glass industry
Gold
Government operations and politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Hazardous waste site remediation
Health
Health warnings
Herbicides
Import restrictions
Imports
Insect control
Interest
International affairs
Labeling
Labor and employment
Law
Machine tools
Machinery in industry
Merchant ships
Metal trade
Metals
Michigan
Mine wastes
Mines and mineral resources
New products
Olympic games
Oxygenates
Packaging
Pesticides
Photographic film
Police training
Polymers
Private aviation
Product development
Public lands and natural resources
Quality control
Raw materials
Reformulated gasoline
Rubber industry
Sanctions (International law)
Science, technology, communications
Scientific instruments and apparatus
Soccer
Sports and recreation
Storage
Sudan
Surety and fidelity
Tariff
Telephone
Television
Texas
Tobacco
Tobacco exports
Trade adjustment assistance
Transportation and public works
Tungsten
Video display terminals
Warning labels

Bill Notes

[Note 1] An Act (like Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000) or a resolution cannot become a law in the United States until it has been approved (passed) in identical form by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as signed by the President (but see (5)). If the two bodys of the Congress versions of a bill are not identical, one of the bodies might decide to take a further vote to adopt the bill (see more about the Congress process here). An Act may be pass in identical form with or without amendments and with or without conference. (see more about Enrollment).
[Note 2] Proposals are referred to committees for preliminary consideration, then debated, amended, and passed (or rejected) by the full House or Senate. To prevent endless shuttling of bills between the House and Senate, bills like Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000 are referred to joint committees made up of members of both houses.
[Note 3] For more information regarding this legislative proposal, go to THOMAS, select “Bill Number,” search on (Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000)
[Note 4] To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify temporarily certain rates of duty, to make other technical amendments to the trade laws, and for other purposes. The current official title of a bill is always present, assigned at introduction (for example, in this case, on 2000-07-18) and can be revised any time. This type of titles are sentences.
[Note 5] The Act is referred to the appropriate committee by the Speaker of any of the two Houses. Bills are placed on the calendar of the committee to which they have been assigned. See Assignment Process.
[Note 6] Regarding exceptions to President´s approval, a bill that is not signed (returned unsigned) by the President can still become law if at lest two thirds of each of the two bodys of the Congress votes to pass it, which is an infrequent case. See also Presidential Veto.
[Note 7] Legislative Proposal types can be: hr, hres, hjres, hconres, s, sres, sjres, sconres. An Act originating in the Senate is designated by the letter “S”, and a bill originating from the House of Representatives begins with “H.R.”, followed, in both cases, by its individual number which it retains throughout all its parliamentary process.
[Note 8] For information regarding related bill/s to Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000, go to THOMAS.

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