jiayi-li23/proxann_data huggingface dataset:
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2007-01-23 00:00:00

Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to revise the prohibition on importing convict-made goods into the United States to make it unlawful to: (1) import into, or export from, the United States any sweatshop good; or (2) introduce into commerce, sell, trade, or advertise in commerce, offer to sell, or transport or distribute in U.S. commerce, any sweatshop good. Grants the President, for reasons of national interest, authority to recommend waiver of the applications set forth in this Act in connection with the goods of any country with respect to one or more of the principles and rights defined in this Act as a core labor standard. Sets forth procedures for consideration of such a waiver. Makes it unlawful for persons to introduce into commerce, sell, trade, or advertise in commerce, offer to sell or transport or distribute in commerce any sweatshop good. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce this prohibition as if it were an unfair or deceptive act or practice proscribed under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Allows specified persons with standing to bring a civil action in U.S. district courts against sellers of goods, wares, articles, or merchandise on grounds of a violation of such prohibition. Prohibits executive agencies and the Armed Forces from entering into procurement contracts for sweatshop goods. Prohibits anything in this Act from being construed to preempt a state from regulating labor standards required in the mining, production, or manufacture of merchandise purchased by the state.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-01-14 00:00:00

Nonmarket Economy Trade Remedy Act of 2009 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to apply countervailing duties to nonmarket economies. Excludes specified factors, including a subsidy's effect, from the administering authority's consideration when determining whether a countervailable subsidy exists with respect to merchandise imported from nonmarket economy countries. Authorizes the use of alternative methodologies in determining whether a subsidy is countervailable with respect to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Deems subsidies provided predominantly or disportionately by the PRC to a state-owned enterprise as specific to that enterprise. Prohibits the administering authority from considering requests for market economy treatment at the individual business enterprise level in an antidumping duty proceeding involving a nonmarket economy country. Requires congressional approval for revocation of nonmarket economy country determinations made by the administering authority.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-02-10 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on phosphoric acid, lanthanum salt, cerium terbium-doped.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-03-04 00:00:00

Amends the U.S. Notes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to codify the terms "in airtight containers" and "in bulk or in immediate containers weighing with their contents over 6.8 kg each" as they relate to imported ready tuna products to reflect existing practice and promote public health and safety.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-03-12 00:00:00

Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require that certain laminated woven bags be marked with the country of origin.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-04-01 00:00:00

U.S.-Paraguay Partnership Act of 2009 - Amends the Andean Trade Preference Act, as amended and expanded by Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), to include Paraguay on the list of countries eligible for duty-free treatment and other preferential treatment for its products as a designated beneficiary country and ATPDEA beneficiary country. Terminates the extension of such treatment to Paraguayan products after December 31, 2009.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-04-02 00:00:00

Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to designate certain comforter shells as eligible articles for duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-05-12 00:00:00

Imported Ethanol Parity Act - Requires the President to: (1) reduce semiannually the temporary duty imposed on ethanol by an amount equal to the reduction in any federal income or excise tax credit for alcohol and ethanol blends used as fuel; and (2) take other necessary actions to ensure that the combined temporary duty and any other duty imposed on ethanol is equal to, or lower than, any federal income or excise tax credit applicable to ethanol.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-05-13 00:00:00

Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to include as a "countervailable subsidy" requiring action under a countervailing duty or antidumping duty proceeding the benefit conferred on merchandise imported into the United States from foreign countries with fundamentally undervalued currency. Defines "benefit conferred," in cases where the currency of a foreign country is exchanged for foreign currency (i.e., U.S. dollars) obtained from export transactions, as the difference between: (1) the amount of currency provided by a foreign country in which the subject merchandise is produced; and (2) the amount of currency such country would have provided if the real effective exchange rate of its currency were not fundamentally undervalued. Declares that the fact that such a subsidy is also provided in circumstances not involving export shall not, for that reason alone, mean it cannot be considered export contingent and actionable under a countervailing duty and antidumping duty proceeding. Requires the administering authority to determine that the currency of a foreign country is fundamentally undervalued if for an 18-month period: (1) the government of the country engages in protracted, large-scale intervention in one or more foreign exchange markets; (2) the country's real effective exchange rate is undervalued by at least 5%; (3) the country has experienced significant and persistent global current account surpluses; and (4) the country's government has foreign asset reserves exceeding the amount necessary to repay all its debt obligations falling due within the coming 12 months, 20% percent of the country's money supply, and the value of the country's imports during the previous 4 months. Requires the use, for calculating a country's "real effective exchange rate undervaluation," of certain guidelines of the Consultative Group on Exchange Rate Issues of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or, if those guidelines are not available, generally accepted economic and econometric techniques and methodologies. Requires the use, also, of inflation-adjusted, trade-weighted exchange rates. (Sec. 3) Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the implementation of this Act.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-06-04 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain ceiling fans.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-06-17 00:00:00

Border Tax Equity Act of 2009 - Requires the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to certify to Congress whether or not U.S. objectives for revision of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on border tax treatment of goods and services from countries with indirect tax systems have been met in WTO negotiations. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on imports of goods and services from any foreign country that employs an indirect tax system and grants rebates of indirect taxes paid on goods or services exported from that country. Requires deposit of such taxes into a special account. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), acting through the Commissioner responsible for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, upon request of a U.S. exporter, to grant a rebate from this special account to an exporter of goods or services from the United States to such a foreign country of the equivalent of any indirect taxes the foreign country imposes or applies to such goods and services at its border, with certain adjustments.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-06-25 00:00:00

Save Our Industries Act of 2009 or the SAVE Act - Grants duty-free treatment, subject to specified conditions, to certain apparel wholly assembled in the United States or the Philippines, or both, and components of such apparel consisting entirely of: (1) fabric components cut in the United States or the Philippines, or both, from fabric wholly formed in the United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States; (2) components knit-to-shape in the United States from yarns wholly formed in the United States; or (3) any combination of such components. Grants: (1) a reduction of duty for such apparel, provided the same criteria are met; and (2) duty-free treatment to apparel that meet both the requirements for duty-free treatment and reduction of duty. Requires the Comptroller General to evaluate the effectiveness of the preferential duty treatment afforded under this Act to apparel imported from the Philippines. Prohibits preferential duty treatment of apparel imported from the Philippines unless the President certifies to Congress that it is meeting certain trade enforcement conditions with respect to such apparel. Terminates preferential duty treatment under this Act: (1) 10 years after the effective date of this Act; and (2) when the Philippines becomes ineligible for designation as a beneficiary country under the Generalized System of Preferences.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-07-10 00:00:00

United States Optimal Use of Trade to Develop Outerwear and Outdoor Recreation Act or U.S. OUTDOOR Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain recreational performance outerwear. Establishes the Sustainable Textile and Apparel Research Fund (STAR Fund). Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to charge and collect, with specified exceptions, a fee of 1.5% of the appraised value of imported recreational performance outerwear and to deposit amounts collected into the STAR Fund. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to make quarterly distributions from the STAR Fund to one or more appropriate organizations to conduct applied research, development, and education activities to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. businesses in clean, eco-friendly apparel, other textile and apparel products, and sewn-product design and manufacturing.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2009-07-10 00:00:00

Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act - Amends the Lacey Act to add the bighead carp of the species Hypophthalmichthys nobilis to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being shipped or imported into the United States.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-07-27 00:00:00

Freedom Trade Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to deny nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) from the products of a foreign country that: (1) engages in violations of religious freedom; (2) restricts the freedom of workers to associate and to organize and bargain collectively; or (3) prohibits or limits the functioning of free and independent labor unions.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Animals
Date: 2009-07-31 00:00:00

Bear Protection Act of 2009 - Prohibits any person from: (1) importing bear viscera into, or exporting it from, the United States; or (2) selling bear viscera, bartering, offering it for sale or barter, or purchasing, possessing, transporting, delivering, or receiving it in interstate or foreign commerce. Subjects persons who violate such prohibitions to specified penalties. Waives such prohibition for wildlife law enforcement purposes where a valid permit has been issued. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to continue discussions concerning trade in bear viscera with the appropriate representatives of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and with other representatives of countries that are not party to the Convention which are determined to be the leading importers, exporters, or consumers of such products, in order to establish coordinated efforts with such countries to protect bears. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect state regulation of bear population or to affect the lawful hunting of bears under state law.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-09-29 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on liquid-filled glass bulbs designed for sprinkler systems and other release devices.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-09-29 00:00:00

Milk Import Tariff Equity Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to impose tariff-rate quotas (quantitative import limits) and provide various duty rates on certain casein, caseinates, milk protein concentrate, and other casein derivatives and glues imported into the United States (except imports from a country which has entered into a free trade agreement with the United States). Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into a trade agreement with a foreign country to grant new concessions as compensation in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions; and (2) proclaim any necessary modification or continuance of any existing duty, or continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or any quantitative limitation. Sets forth certain limits on the reduction of duties on such products.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-08 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain untwisted filament yarns.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-08 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain synthetic filament yarns.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-15 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on man-made shells used in the manufacture of sleeping bags.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on (Alkylamino-hydroxyphenyl)azo-hydroxysubstituted benzene, substituted Y(hydroxy-naphthalenyl) hydroxybenzene?, chromium complex, sodium salt.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 1H-Pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid, 4-YY4-YY(2,3-dichloro- 6-quinoxalinyl)carbonyl?amino?-2-sulfophenyl?azo?-4,5-dihydr -5-oxo-1-(4- sulfophenyl)-, trisodium salt.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Ethanol, 2,2'-Y Y6,13-dichloro-3,10-bisYY2- (sulfooxy)ethyl?amino?triphenodioxazinediyl?bis(sulfonyl)? bis-, bis(hydrogen sulfate) (ester), potassium sodium salt.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 2-Naphthalenesulfonic acid, 5-YY4-(acetylamino)-2- (trifluoromethyl)phenyl?azo?-6-amino-4-hydroxy-, monosodium salt.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Substituted cyan acetic acid pentyl ester.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 2-Anthracenesulfonic acid, 1-amino-9, 10-dihydro-4-Y Y4-YYmethylY(4-methylphenyl) sulfony?amino?methyl?pheny? amino?-9, 10-dioxo-, sodium salt (1:1).
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 100 percent cotton woven color wall fabric, dyed.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 100 percent cotton narrow woven fabric.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 100 percent cotton dyed knit fabric.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 100 percent dyed cotton single knit fabric.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-20 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 9, 10-Anthracenedione, 1-amino-4-hydroxy-2-phenoxy-.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-22 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on phenyl (4,6-dimethoxy-pyrimidin-2-yl) carbamate.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-10-27 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain nonwoven polypropylene zippered sleeping bag carry cases, not under 77.5 cm in circumference and not exceeding 106.7 cm in circumference.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-02 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain high-performance loudspeakers.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-02 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty certain electrical transformers rated at 40VA.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-03 00:00:00

Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make eligible for the drawback (refund) of duties, paid on certain imported merchandise, certain other merchandise classified as commercially interchangeable with such imported merchandise, if within the three-year period since its own importation, without having been used within the United States, the commercially interchangeable merchandise is exported or destroyed.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-06 00:00:00

Amends the Wool Suit and Textile Trade Extension Act of 2004 to require the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to make certain additional payments from the Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund (consisting of duties paid on imported wool) to each wool manufacturer that provides to the Bureau in a year in which a payment may otherwise be payable an affidavit stating that it remains a wool manufacturer in the United States.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-16 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on mixtures of Chlorsulfuron (2-Chloro-N-[(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1, 3, 5-triazin-2-yl)aminocarbonyl]benzenesulfonamide) and metsulfuron methyl (Methyl 2[[[[(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1, 3,5-triazin-2-yl)arnino]carbonyl]amino]sulfonyl] benzoate) and inert ingredients.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-17 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on alkylated amino resin solution, formaldehyde.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-17 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on nylon woolpacks used to package wool.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-19 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary duty suspensions on certain cotton shirting fabrics. Amends the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the Treasury to the Pima Cotton Trust Fund amounts equal to the duties received in the Treasury from certain imported woven fabrics of cotton since January 1, 2004. Extends the authority of the Secretary to make transfers to the Trust Fund for certain annual distributions (duty refunds) to U.S. manufacturers who certify by affidavit to have used such imported cotton in the manufacture of cotton shirts. Requires annual affidavits from shirting manufacturers and from yarn spinners.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-19 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on silver sodium hydrogen zirconium phosphate.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-11-19 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain hydrogenated polymers of norbornene derivatives.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2009-12-08 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary duty suspension on certain rayon staple fibers.