IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1681 
Supporting effective enforcement of United States trade laws, including anti-
dumping and countervailing duty orders and particularly with regard 
to transshipment, in order to protect United States revenue and con-
sumers 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 Mis-
souri, Mr. AKIN, and Mr. LUETKEMEYER) submitted the following resolu-
tion; 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 Amer-
ican 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 in-
novate, compete, and invest in their operations and can 
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injure American workers by suppressing wages and con-
tributing to unemployment and underemployment; 
Whereas unfairly traded imports can cost American manufac-
turing jobs and may undermine public support for eco-
nomically 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 anti-
dumping and countervailing duties, to remedy harm to 
United States companies and industries injured by un-
fairly traded imports; 
Whereas U.S. Customs and Border Protection collects such 
special duties and enforces our trade laws, including anti-
dumping 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 mer-
chandise 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 
that the United States Government has not fully rem-
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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 un-
fairly 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 ac-
curately 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 cir-
cumvention of its antidumping or countervailing duty or-
ders, 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 au-
thority to act to safeguard the integrity of its administra-
tive processes, including the administration and enforce-
ment of antidumping and countervailing duty orders; and 
Whereas it is only through aggressive and effective enforce-
ment of United States trade laws that such illegal activ-
ity can be stopped: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) recognizes the critical roles played by the 
Department of Commerce and U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection in administering and enforcing 
United States trade laws, including antidumping and 
countervailing duty orders; 
(2) supports the aggressive and effective en-
forcement of United States trade laws, including 
antidumping and countervailing duty orders and 
particularly with regard to the process commonly 
known as transshipment, in order to protect United 
States revenue and consumers and remedy harm to 
impacted United States companies and industries 
and American workers; and 
(3) encourages international trading partners of 
the United States to take prompt action to ensure 
that foreign companies exporting to the United 
States respect and abide by all requirements of 
United States trade laws, including antidumping and 
countervailing duty orders. 
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