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ucts of Georgia will enable the United States to avail
itself of all rights under the World Trade Organiza-
tion with respect to Georgia.
SEC. 3002. TERMINATION OF APPLICATION OF TITLE IV OF
THE TRADE ACT OF 1974 TO GEORGIA.
(a) PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATIONS AND EXTEN-
SIONS OF NONDISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT.—Notwith-
standing any provision of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974
(19 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.), the President may—
(1) determine that such title should no longer
apply to Georgia; and
(2) after making a determination under para-
graph (1) with respect to Georgia, proclaim the ex-
tension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal
trade relations treatment) to the products of that
country.
(b) TERMINATION OF APPLICATION OF TITLE IV.—
On and after the effective date of the extension under sub-
section (a)(2) of nondiscriminatory treatment to the prod-
ucts of Georgia, title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 shall
cease to apply to that country.
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TITLE IV—IMPORTED
CIGARETTE COMPLIANCE
SEC. 4001. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Imported Cigarette
Compliance Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 4002. MODIFICATIONS TO RULES GOVERNING RE-
IMPORTATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
(a) RESTRICTIONS
ON TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN-
TENDED FOR EXPORT.—Section 5754 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 5754. RESTRICTION ON IMPORTATION OF PRE-
VIOUSLY EXPORTED TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
‘‘(a) EXPORT-LABELED TOBACCO PRODUCTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Tobacco products and ciga-
rette papers and tubes manufactured in the United
States and labeled for exportation under this
chapter—
‘‘(A) may be transferred to or removed
from the premises of a manufacturer or an ex-
port warehouse proprietor only if such articles
are being transferred or removed without tax in
accordance with section 5704;
‘‘(B) may be imported or brought into the
United States, after their exportation, only if
such articles either are eligible to be released
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from customs custody with the partial duty ex-
emption provided in section 5704(d) or are re-
turned to the original manufacturer of such ar-
ticle as provided in section 5704(c); and
‘‘(C) may not be sold or held for sale for
domestic consumption in the United States un-
less such articles are removed from their export
packaging and repackaged by the original man-
ufacturer into new packaging that does not con-
tain an export label.
‘‘(2) ALTERATIONS BY PERSONS OTHER THAN
ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER.—This section shall apply
to articles labeled for export even if the packaging
or the appearance of such packaging to the con-
sumer of such articles has been modified or altered
by a person other than the original manufacturer so
as to remove or conceal or attempt to remove or con-
ceal (including by the placement of a sticker over)
any export label.
‘‘(3) EXPORTS INCLUDE SHIPMENTS TO PUER-
TO
RICO.—For purposes of this section, section
5704(d), section 5761, and such other provisions as
the Secretary may specify by regulations, references
to exportation shall be treated as including a ref-
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erence to shipment to the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico.
‘‘(b) EXPORT LABEL.—For purposes of this section,
an article is labeled for export or contains an export label
if it bears the mark, label, or notice required under section
5704(b).
‘‘(c) CROSS REFERENCES.—
‘‘(1) For exception to this section for personal
use, see section 5761(c).
‘‘(2) For civil penalties related to violations of
this section, see section 5761(c).
‘‘(3) For a criminal penalty applicable to any
violation of this section, see section 5762(b).
‘‘(4) For forfeiture provisions related to viola-
tions of this section, see section 5761(c).’’.
(b) CLARIFICATION OF REIMPORTATION RULES.—
Section 5704(d) of such Code (relating to tobacco prod-
ucts and cigarette papers and tubes exported and re-
turned) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘a manufacturer of’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘the original manufacturer of such’’, and
(2) by inserting ‘‘authorized by such manufac-
turer to receive such articles’’ after ‘‘proprietor of an
export warehouse’’.
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(c) REQUIREMENT TO DESTROY FORFEITED TO-
BACCO PRODUCTS.—The last sentence of subsection (c)
of section 5761 of such Code is amended by striking ‘‘the
jurisdiction of the United States’’ and all that follows
through the end period and inserting ‘‘the jurisdiction of
the United States shall be forfeited to the United States
and destroyed. All vessels, vehicles, and aircraft used in
such relanding or in removing such products, papers, and
tubes from the place where relanded, shall be forfeited to
the United States.’’.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act.
(e) STUDY.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall re-
port to Congress on the impact of requiring export ware-
houses to be authorized by the original manufacturer to
receive relanded export-labeled cigarettes.
SEC. 4003. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO THE BALANCED
BUDGET ACT OF 1997.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (c) of section 5761 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding
at the end the following: ‘‘This subsection and section
5754 shall not apply to any person who relands or receives
tobacco products in the quantity allowed entry free of tax
and duty under subchapter IV of chapter 98 of the Har-
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monized Tariff Schedule of the United States. No quantity
of tobacco products other than the quantity referred to
in the preceding sentence may be relanded or received as
a personal use quantity.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
this section shall take effect as if included in section 9302
of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
SEC. 4004. REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO IMPORTS OF
CERTAIN CIGARETTES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1202 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘TITLE 
VIII—REQUIREMENTS
APPLICABLE TO IMPORTS OF
CERTAIN CIGARETTES
‘‘SEC. 801. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘In this title:
‘‘(1) SECRETARY.—Except as otherwise indi-
cated, the term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of
the Treasury.
‘‘(2) PRIMARY PACKAGING.—The term ‘primary
packaging’ refers to the permanent packaging inside
of the innermost cellophane or other transparent
wrapping and labels, if any. Warnings or other
statements shall be deemed ‘permanently imprinted’