Play by the Rules Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2900
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2019-11-19
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits

Tariffs
Latest action: action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-19
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Play by the Rules Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill subjects certain merchandise from a nonmarket economy country (a foreign country that does not operate on market principles of cost or pricing structures) to existing antidumping or countervailing duty orders.</p> <p>The Department of Commerce shall include any merchandise from a nonmarket economy country that is only slightly altered in form or appearance within the class or kind of merchandise that is already subject to (1) an investigation, (2) an antidumping duty order, (3) a finding under the Antidumping Act of 1921, or (4) a countervailing duty order.</p> <p>Additionally, Commerce may include within the scope of an investigation, order, or finding any merchandise from a nonmarket economy country that is (1) slightly altered in form or appearance but was not previously included within the scope of such investigation, order, or finding; or (2) interchangeable with imports that are already subject to such investigation, order, or finding.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2900 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 19, 2019 Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mrs. Capito , Mr. Cassidy , and Ms. Stabenow ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Play by the Rules Act of 2019 . 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 may 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 may 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. .