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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1681 

Supporting effective enforcement of United States trade laws, including antidumping and countervailing duty orders and particularly with regard 

to transshipment, in order to protect United States revenue and consumers and remedy harm to impacted United States companies and 

industries and American workers. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 

Mr. BLUNT (for himself, Mr. BACHUS, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Mr. AKIN, and Mr. LUETKEMEYER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 

RESOLUTION 

Supporting effective enforcement of United States trade laws, 

including antidumping and countervailing duty orders 

and particularly with regard to transshipment, in order 

to protect United States revenue and consumers and 

remedy harm to impacted United States companies and 

industries and American workers. 

Whereas United States companies and industries, and American workers, are the most competitive and productive in 

the world; 

Whereas unfairly traded imports can injure United States 

companies and industries by reducing their ability to innovate, compete, and invest in their operations and can 


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injure American workers by suppressing wages and contributing to unemployment and underemployment; 

Whereas unfairly traded imports can cost American manufacturing jobs and may undermine public support for economically beneficial trade policies; 

Whereas the Department of Commerce and the United States 

International Trade Commission can investigate unfairly 

traded imports and impose special duties, called antidumping and countervailing duties, to remedy harm to 

United States companies and industries injured by unfairly traded imports; 

Whereas U.S. Customs and Border Protection collects such 

special duties and enforces our trade laws, including antidumping and countervailing duty orders; 

Whereas in recent years some foreign exporters and United 

States importers have used numerous fraudulent schemes 

to deliberately evade lawfully owed special duties imposed 

on unfairly traded imports; 

Whereas such schemes include the use of falsified shipping 

documents, misidentification of merchandise when it is 

imported into the United States, and shipment of merchandise through third countries that are then wrongly 

identified as the origin of the goods, a process commonly 

known as transshipment; 

Whereas evasion of lawfully owed duties on imported goods 

is illegal; 

Whereas the United States Government Accountability Office 

has found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has 

been unable to collect hundreds of millions of dollars of 

special duties and the noncollection of those duties means 

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edied the unfair trade practices and has lost out on a 

substantial amount of revenue; 

Whereas illegal evasion of lawfully owed duties prevents 

United States companies and industries and American 

workers from fully recovering from injury caused by unfairly traded imports; 

Whereas illegal use of false shipping documents, false claims 

about the country of origin, and false declarations at the 

time of importation can raise important safety issues 

with imported consumer products; 

Whereas pursuant to section 592 of the Tariff Act of 1930 

(19 U.S.C. 1592), U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

has the authority, power, and responsibility to investigate 

and penalize violations of United States customs and 

trade laws, including the requirement that importers accurately identify goods that are subject to special duties 

imposed by the Department of Commerce; 

Whereas pursuant to section 781 of the Tariff Act of 1930 

(19 U.S.C. 1677j), the Department of Commerce has the 

authority, power, and responsibility to investigate circumvention of its antidumping or countervailing duty orders, and to order the imposition of special duties on 

products from any country that circumvents such orders; 

Whereas the Department of Commerce has the inherent authority to act to safeguard the integrity of its administrative processes, including the administration and enforcement of antidumping and countervailing duty orders; and 

Whereas it is only through aggressive and effective enforcement of United States trade laws that such illegal activity can be stopped: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 


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1 (1) recognizes the critical roles played by the 

2 Department of Commerce and U.S. Customs and 

3 Border Protection in administering and enforcing 

4 United States trade laws, including antidumping and 

5 countervailing duty orders; 

6 (2) supports the aggressive and effective en7 forcement of United States trade laws, including 

8 antidumping and countervailing duty orders and 

9 particularly with regard to the process commonly 

10 known as transshipment, in order to protect United 

11 States revenue and consumers and remedy harm to 

12 impacted United States companies and industries 

13 and American workers; and 

14 (3) encourages international trading partners of 

15 the United States to take prompt action to ensure 

16 that foreign companies exporting to the United 

17 States respect and abide by all requirements of 

18 United States trade laws, including antidumping and 

19 countervailing duty orders. 

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