IV
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 635
Calling on the President to take all appropriate action within his power
to provide relief from injury caused by steel imports and to immediately
request the United States International Trade Commission to commence
an expedited investigation for positive adjustment under section 201
of the Trade Act of 1974 of those steel imports.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 17, 2000
Mr. MOLLOHAN (for himself, Mr. QUINN, Mr. WISE, Mr. NEY, Mr. KLINK,
Mr. REGULA, Mr. HOLT, Mr. SHERWOOD, Mr. EVANS, Mr. LOBIONDO,
Mr. HOEFFEL, Mr. LAZIO, Mr. MALONEY of Connecticut, Mr. MCHUGH,
Mr. MURTHA, Mr. ENGLISH, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. BUYER, Ms. CARSON,
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr.
ADERHOLT, Mr. BARCIA, Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin, Mr. BECERRA, Ms.
BERKLEY, Mr. BERRY, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. BLAGOJEVICH,
Mr. BONIOR, Mr. BORSKI, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. BOYD, Mr.
BRADY of Pennsylvania, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr.
CALLAHAN, Mr. CANNON, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. CLAY, Mr.
CLYBURN, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. COYNE, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr.
CUMMINGS, Ms. DANNER, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms.
DELAURO, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. DIXON, Mr. DOYLE, Mr.
EDWARDS, Mr. EHRLICH, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. EVERETT, Mr. FARR of
California, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. FORBES, Mr. FORD, Mr. GEKAS, Mr. GEP-
HARDT, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. GORDON, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mr. GREEN
of Wisconsin, Mr. GREENWOOD, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. HALL of Texas,
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. HILL of Indiana, Mr. HILLIARD, Mr. HIN-
CHEY, Mr. HOBSON, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. HORN, Mr. HOSTETTLER, Mr.
HOYER, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mrs. JONES
of Ohio, Mr. KANJORSKI, Ms. KAPTUR, Mrs. KELLY, Mr. KILDEE, Ms.
KILPATRICK, Mr. KLECZKA, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. LARSON,
Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. LEACH, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. LUCAS of
Kentucky, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MASCARA, Mr. MATSUI, Mrs. MCCARTHY of
New York, Ms. MCCARTHY of Missouri, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MCINTOSH,
Mr. MCINTYRE, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. MCNULTY, Mrs. MEEK of Florida,
Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD,
Mr. GARY MILLER of California, Mrs. MINK of Hawaii, Mr. MOAKLEY,
Mr. MOORE, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. NADLER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. NORWOOD,
Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. PETER-
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SON of Pennsylvania, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. PITTS, Mr. POMEROY, Mr. RA-
HALL, Mr. REYES, Mr. RILEY, Ms. RIVERS, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. ROE-
MER, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SABO, Mr. SANDERS, Mr.
SANDLIN, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. SAWYER, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SHOWS,
Mr. SKEEN, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. SOUDER, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. STEN-
HOLM, Mr. STRICKLAND, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. SWEENEY, Mrs. THURMAN,
Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. TRAFICANT, Mr. TURN-
ER, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, Mr. WALSH, Mr. WELDON of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. WEYGAND, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. WU, and Mr.
WYNN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
RESOLUTION
Calling on the President to take all appropriate action within
his power to provide relief from injury caused by steel
imports and to immediately request the United States
International Trade Commission to commence an expe-
dited investigation for positive adjustment under section
201 of the Trade Act of 1974 of those steel imports.
Whereas total steel imports in 2000 will be over 21⁄2 times
higher than in 1991, continuing the alarming trend of
sharply increasing steel imports over the past decade;
Whereas unprecedented levels of steel imports flooded the
United States market in 1998 and 1999, causing a crisis
in which thousands of steelworkers were laid off and 6
steel companies went bankrupt;
Whereas the domestic steel industry still has not had an op-
portunity to recover from the 1998–1999 steel import cri-
sis, and steel imports are again causing serious injury to
United States steel producers and workers;
Whereas total steel imports through August 2000 are 17 per-
cent higher than over the same period in 1999 and great-
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er even than imports over the same period in 1998, a
record year;
Whereas steel prices continue to be depressed, with hot-rolled
steel prices 12 percent lower in August 2000 than in the
first quarter of 1998, and average import customs values
for all steel products more than 15 percent lower over the
same period;
Whereas the United States Government must maintain and
fully enforce all existing relief against foreign unfair
trade;
Whereas the United States steel industry is a clean, highly
efficient industry having modernized itself at great
human and financial cost, shedding over 330,000 jobs
and investing more than $50,000,000,000 over the last
20 years;
Whereas capacity utilization in the United States steel indus-
try has fallen sharply since the beginning of the year and
the market capitalization and debt ratings of the major
United States steel firms are at precarious levels;
Whereas the Department of Commerce recently documented
the underlying market-distorting practices and long-
standing structural problems that plague the global steel
trade with excess capacity and cause diversion of unfairly
traded foreign steel to the United States; and
Whereas the President recognized that unfair trade played a
significant role in the devastating import surge of steel
and recognized the need to vigorously enforce the trade
laws: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls
upon the President—
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(1) to take all appropriate action within his
power to provide relief from injury caused by steel
imports; and
(2) to immediately request the United States
International Trade Commission to commence an ex-
pedited investigation for positive adjustment under
section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 of such steel
imports.
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