Title: Play by the Rules Act of 2018
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
Play by the Rules Act of 2018
This bill amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to subject to antidumping and countervailing duties certain merchandise from nonmarket economies that would otherwise be exempt.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3379 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3379

    To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to prevent the circumvention of 
 antidumping and countervailing duties by nonmarket economy countries, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            August 23, 2018

  Ms. Baldwin (for herself and Mrs. Capito) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to prevent the circumvention of 
 antidumping and countervailing duties by nonmarket economy countries, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Play by the Rules Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. PREVENTION OF CIRCUMVENTION OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING 
              DUTIES BY NONMARKET ECONOMY COUNTRIES.

    Section 781 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677j) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Treatment of merchandise from nonmarket economy 
        countries.--
                    ``(A) Exclusion of application of exception.--With 
                respect to merchandise from nonmarket economy 
                countries, the exception in paragraph (2) shall not 
                apply.
                    ``(B) Inclusion of merchandise outside of scope.--
                With respect to merchandise from nonmarket economy 
                countries, the administering authority shall consider 
                any such merchandise that is altered in form or 
                appearance in minor respects (including raw 
                agricultural products that have undergone minor 
                processing) as being subject to paragraph (1) 
                notwithstanding that such merchandise was not included 
                in the scope of the investigation, order, or finding 
                described in such paragraph.'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections 
        (f) and (g), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (d) the following:
    ``(e) Treatment of Certain Merchandise From Nonmarket Economy 
Countries.--If the administering authority finds that imports into the 
United States of merchandise from a nonmarket economy country have 
increased and imports of the merchandise are interchangeable in the 
market with imports of merchandise subject to an antidumping duty order 
issued under section 736, a finding issued under the Antidumping Act, 
1921, or a countervailing duty order issued under section 706 or 
section 303, the administering authority shall include within the scope 
of such order or finding the merchandise imported from the nonmarket 
economy country at any time such order or finding is in effect.''.
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