HR 975 · 106th Congress · Foreign Trade and International Finance

To provide for a reduction in the volume of steel imports, and to establish a steel import notification and monitoring program.

Introduced 1999-03-04· Sponsored by Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]· House

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Latest: Cloture on the motion to proceed not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 42-57. Record Vote No: 178. (consideration: CR S7405)(1999-06-22)

Recorded Votes

PassedHouse · 1999-03-17
Roll #56
Yea 289Nay 141
Democrats
197 Yea·13 Nay
Republicans
91 Yea·128 Nay
PassedHouse · 1999-03-17
Roll #56
Yea 289Nay 141
Democrats
197 Yea·13 Nay
Republicans
91 Yea·128 Nay

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Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Directs the President to impose quotas, tariff surcharges, or negotiate enforceable voluntary export restraint agreements in order to ensure that the volume of imported steel products (semifinished, plates, sheets and strips, wire rods, wire and wire products, rail type products, bars, structural shapes and units, pipes and tubes, iron ore, and coke products) during any month does not exceed the average volume of imported steel for the 36-month period preceding July 1997. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Commerce to implement a program for administering and enforcing the restraints on such imports. Authorizes the Customs Service to refuse entry into the U.S. customs territory for a three year period of any steel products that exceed the allowable levels of such products. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish and implement a steel import notification and monitoring program. Requires any person who intends to import steel products into the United States to first obtain an import notification certificate. Sets forth specified import notification certificate requirements. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to publish on a weekly basis through the Internet certain …

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CBO Cost Estimate

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H.R. 975, A bill to provide for a reduction in the volume of steel imports, and to establish a steel import notification and monitoring program

Mar 15, 1999

Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on March 10, 1999

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Cosponsors (20)

11 Democrats9 Republicans