I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4217 
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to allow United States manufacturers 
that use products subject to countervailing or antidumping duty pro-
ceedings or use domestic like products to participate in those proceedings 
as interested parties, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 3, 2005 
Mr. KNOLLENBERG (for himself, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. 
CAMP, Mr. KIND, Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. 
RAMSTAD, Mr. DREIER, Mr. BOEHNER, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. 
MCCOTTER, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. KIRK, Mr. UPTON, Mr. RYAN of Wis-
consin, Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota, and Mr. EHLERS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to allow United States 
manufacturers that use products subject to counter-
vailing or antidumping duty proceedings or use domestic 
like products to participate in those proceedings as inter-
ested parties, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Manufac-
turing Competitiveness Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The competitiveness of manufacturing in-
dustries in the United States must be a priority for 
the United States Government. 
(2) Antidumping and countervailing duty laws 
of the United States are in the interest of the 
United States, when applied in an objective and fair 
manner, to prevent unfair pricing and subsidized 
competition. 
(3) Imposing antidumping and countervailing 
duties may harm United States industrial users of 
imported goods or domestic like products, because 
those users rely on such goods to manufacture prod-
ucts in the United States. 
(4) Current law does not permit United States 
industrial users to participate fully in antidumping 
or countervailing duty cases that might affect their 
businesses substantially; nor can decisionmakers in 
these cases consider, under United States law, the 
effects on United States industrial users in deter-
mining whether to impose antidumping or counter-
vailing duties. 
(5) It is a matter of fundamental fairness that 
businesses in the United States that may be affected 
by antidumping and countervailing duties should be
able to participate meaningfully in the process by 
which decisions regarding those duties are made. 
(6) In order to ensure economically sound deci-
sions and the health of United States manufactur-
ers, the benefits of imposing antidumping and coun-
tervailing duties should be balanced against the eco-
nomic harm caused by imposing those duties, and 
antidumping and countervailing duties should not be 
imposed if the harm is greater than the benefits of 
imposing such duties. 
SEC. 3. PARTICIPATION OF INDUSTRIAL USERS IN COUN-
TERVAILING AND ANTIDUMPING DUTY PRO-
CEEDINGS. 
Title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 
et seq.) is amended as follows: 
(1) Section 701(a) (19 U.S.C. 1671(a)) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (1); 
(B) by adding ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘merchandise 
for importation,’’ at the end of paragraph (2); 
and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following:
‘‘(3) the Commission determines that the impo-
sition of a countervailing duty on such merchandise 
equal to the amount of the net countervailable sub-
sidy would result in greater benefits to that United 
States industry than harm to United States indus-
trial users,’’. 
(2) 
Section 
702(b)(4)(B) 
(19 
U.S.C. 
1671a(b)(4)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘or (G)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(G), or (H)’’. 
(3) Section 703 (19 U.S.C. 1671b) is amend-
ed— 
(A) in subsection (a)(1), in the first sen-
tence, by striking ‘‘and that imports of the sub-
ject merchandise are not negligible’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘, that imports of the subject merchandise 
are not negligible, and that the imposition of a 
countervailing duty on the subject merchandise 
equal to the amount of the net countervailable 
subsidy would result in greater benefits to that 
United States industry than harm to United 
States industrial users’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ‘‘or 
(G)’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘(G), 
or (H)’’.
(4) 
Section 
704(a)(2)(B) 
(19 
U.S.C. 
1671c(a)(2)(B)) is amended— 
(A) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘(other than 
United States industrial users)’’ after ‘‘con-
sumers’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of clause 
(ii); 
(C) by striking the period at the end of 
clause (iii) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding after clause (iii) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iv) the relative impact on the com-
petitiveness of United States industrial 
users, including, but not limited to, any 
such impact on employment by and invest-
ment in United States industrial users.’’. 
(5) Section 704(g)(2) (19 U.S.C. 1671c(g)(2)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘or (G)’’ and inserting ‘‘(G), 
or (H)’’. 
(6) Section 704(h)(1) (19 U.S.C. 1671c(h)(1)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘or (G)’’ and inserting ‘‘(G), 
or (H)’’. 
(7) Section 705(b)(1) (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)) 
is amended in the first sentence, by inserting before 
the period the following: ‘‘, and whether the imposi-