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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 3262

To impose an additional duty on imported goods and to provide that amounts

equal to the revenues delivered therefrom be available for the national

health care purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OCTOBER 12, 1993

Mr. TRAFICANT introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the

Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To impose an additional duty on imported goods and to

provide that amounts equal to the revenues delivered

therefrom be available for the national health care

purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL IMPORT DUTY.

4 (a) GENERAL RULE.—Notwithstanding any other

5 provision of law, with respect to any good that is entered,

6 or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, in the cus7 toms territory of the United States on or after January

8 1, 1994, there is imposed—
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1 (1) if the good is, without regard to this Act,

2 dutiable, an additional duty of 4 percent ad valorem;

3 and

4 (2) if the good is, without regard to this Act,

5 duty-free, a duty of 4 percent ad valorem.

6 (b) EXEMPTIONS.—Subsection (a) does not apply to

7 any good that is imported for the use of a Federal agency

8 if the head of that agency certifies to the Commissioner

9 of Customs that the good is—

10 (1) for use by the agency outside the United

11 States;

12 (2) not mined, produced, or manufactured in

13 the United States—

14 (A) in sufficient and reasonably available

15 commercial quantities, or

16 (B) at a level of quality considered satis17 factory by the agency; or

18 (3) required for national security purposes.

19 SEC. 2. NATIONAL HEALTH CARE TRUST FUND.

20 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established within

21 the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be

22 known as the Trust Fund (hereinafter in this section re23 ferred to as the National Health Care Trust Fund), con24 sisting of such amounts as may be transferred to the

25 Trust Fund as provided in this section.
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1 (b) TRANSFER.—(1) The Secretary of the Treasury

2 shall transfer to the Trust Fund out of the general fund

3 of the Treasury of the United States amounts determined

4 by the Secretary of the Treasury to be equivalent to the

5 amounts received into such general fund that are attrib6 utable to the duty imposed by section 1(a).

7 (2) The amounts which are required to be transferred

8 under paragraph (1) shall be transferred at least quarterly

9 from the general fund of the Treasury of the United

10 States to the Trust Fund on the basis of estimates made

11 by the Secretary of the Treasury of the amounts referred

12 to in paragraph (1) that are received into the Treasury.

13 Proper adjustments shall be made in the amounts subse14 quently to the extent prior estimates were in excess of,

15 or less than, the amounts required to be transferred.

16 (c) USE OF FUND AMOUNTS.—Amounts in the Trust

17 Fund shall only be available as provided in appropriation

18 Acts for expenditures required to carry out national health

19 care insurance programs.

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