IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 848 
Calling for the maintenance of effective trade remedies for United States 
manufacturers and producers by ensuring that any foreign country des-
ignated as a nonmarket economy country under the Tariff Act of 1930 
retain this status until it demonstrates that it meets all of the criteria 
for treatment as a market economy set forth in section 771(18)(B) 
of such Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 
Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. DENT, Mr. 
MCKINLEY, Mr. BOST, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. JONES, Mr. 
JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. BROOKS of Ala-
bama, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. TIPTON, Mr. REED, Mr. COSTELLO of Penn-
sylvania, Mr. NOLAN, Mr. HARPER, Mr. PITTENGER, Ms. SEWELL of 
Alabama, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. BYRNE, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. GENE GREEN 
of Texas, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, and Mr. BARLETTA) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
Means 
RESOLUTION 
Calling for the maintenance of effective trade remedies for 
United States manufacturers and producers by ensuring 
that any foreign country designated as a nonmarket 
economy country under the Tariff Act of 1930 retain 
this status until it demonstrates that it meets all of 
the criteria for treatment as a market economy set forth 
in section 771(18)(B) of such Act. 
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Whereas fair international competition and a level playing 
field are essential for the global competitiveness of 
United States manufacturers, farmers, workers, and com-
munities; 
Whereas effective and predictable trade enforcement mecha-
nisms must include the assessment of and effective re-
sponse to distortions in nonmarket economies, which risk 
endangering United States jobs and the Nation’s eco-
nomic security; 
Whereas a nonmarket economy country for purposes of the 
United States antidumping law is defined in section 
771(18)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
1677(18)(A)) as ‘‘any foreign country that the admin-
istering authority determines does not operate on market 
principles of cost or pricing structures, so that sales of 
merchandise in such country do not reflect the fair value 
of the merchandise’’; 
Whereas a foreign country’s pursuit of economic reforms, in-
cluding the removal or withdrawal of some state controls, 
is not a sufficient basis for revocation of nonmarket econ-
omy status if its economy as a whole fails to meet the 
criteria for treatment as a market economy country set 
forth in section 771(18)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
U.S.C. 1677(18)(B)); 
Whereas Congress has provided the above-referenced criteria 
to determine whether market forces in a foreign country 
are sufficiently developed to permit the use of prices and 
costs in that country for purposes of the Department of 
Commerce’s antidumping analysis; 
Whereas the governments of some United States trading 
partners continue to play a substantial and direct role in 
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many critical aspects of their domestic economies, includ-
ing the financial system, upstream resource and energy 
sectors, and through ownership and control of many stra-
tegic industries; 
Whereas the governments of some United States trading 
partners at the central, provincial, and local levels con-
tinue to subsidize production of key commodities such as 
aluminum, cement, cotton, synthetic fiber, PET resin, 
specialty chemicals, iron, and steel; and 
Whereas subsidies and other market-distorting government 
policies hurt United States businesses and workers by en-
couraging and supporting excess production and exports 
onto world markets that result in significant price sup-
pression, price depression, or lost sales: Now, therefore be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls on the President to provide for the full 
and effective application of United States anti-
dumping and countervailing duty laws against non-
market economy countries; 
(2) calls on the President to retain the status 
of any country currently designated as a nonmarket 
economy country until it demonstrates that it meets 
all of the criteria for treatment as a market economy 
set forth in section 771(18)(B) of the Tariff Act of 
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677(18)(B)); 
(3) calls on nonmarket economy countries to 
eliminate all direct and indirect subsidies and other 
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market-distorting government policies benefitting the 
production and export of goods to the United States; 
and 
(4) calls on nonmarket economy countries to 
enter into binding and enforceable agreements for 
removing excess production capacity and with-
drawing state intervention in and control over their 
economies. 
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