Title: A bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to require online retailers to disclose whether articles sold by such retailers originate in the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
This bill requires an online retailer to disclose whether articles sold through its platform originate in China.
Specifically, any online retailer selling articles of foreign commerce imported into the United States shall legibly state and conspicuously disclose on the webpage for each such article if the article or any major component thereof originates in China or if the article was manufactured or assembled in China.
The bill also authorizes the Department of the Treasury to determine the acceptable method of disclosure and to authorize the exception of certain articles from disclosure requirements. Further, such disclosure is not required to be made for specified types of products (e.g., coffee and tea, spices, and silk products).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4364 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4364

To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to require online retailers to disclose 
   whether articles sold by such retailers originate in the People's 
               Republic of China, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 29, 2020

  Ms. McSally 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 require online retailers to disclose 
   whether articles sold by such retailers originate in the People's 
               Republic of China, 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. DISCLOSURE BY ONLINE RETAILERS OF WHETHER ARTICLES ORIGINATE 
              IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) In General.--Section 304 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
1304) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(m) Marking of Articles From the People's Republic of China Sold 
by Online Retailers.--
            ``(1) In general.--Any person that sells, through an online 
        marketplace or e-commerce platform, articles of foreign origin 
        imported into the United States, shall state as legibly as 
        possible, in a conspicuous place on the webpage for each such 
        article, if any of the following is the People's Republic of 
        China:
                    ``(A) The country of origin of the article.
                    ``(B) The country of origin of any major component 
                of the article.
                    ``(C) The country in which the article was 
                manufactured.
                    ``(D) The country in which the article was 
                assembled.
            ``(2) Application of certain provisions.--The following 
        provisions of this section shall apply with respect to the 
        statement required by paragraph (1) to the same extent that 
        such provisions apply with respect to the marking of articles 
        under subsection (a):
                    ``(A) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a).
                    ``(B) Subparagraphs (E), (H), (I) of subsection 
                (a)(3).
                    ``(C) Subsections (f), (g), (h), (k), and (l).''.
    (b) Regulations.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe 
regulations to carry out subsection (m) of section 304 of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as added by subsection (a), which regulations may include 
exceptions to the requirements of that subsection for small retailers 
or for second point-of-sale retailers.
    (c) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, on or after the date that is 15 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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