jiayi-li23/proxann_data huggingface dataset:
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Date: 2013-06-06 00:00:00

Protection from Rogue Oil Traders Engaging in Computerized Trading Act or PROTECT Act - Amends the Commodities Exchange Act to make it unlawful to engage in an activity that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has defined as high frequency trading, unless the person has registered with the CFTC as a high frequency trader, and the registration has neither expired nor been suspended or revoked.

Prescribes requirements governing high frequency trading.

Requires the fine for a high frequency trading violation to be based on the number of seconds, including fractions of seconds, during which the violation continued.

Authorizes the CFTC to define the scope of any violation for purposes of determining the number involved in any civil case arising under this Act.

Increases the civil penalties for violations of the prohibition against manipulation and false information with respect to swaps and commodities.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-07-17 00:00:00

United States Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013 - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend or reduce temporarily certain rates of duty on specified chemicals and other items.

Extends through December 31, 2015, certain existing duty suspensions, reductions, and other modification for specified chemicals, food, and other items.

Directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of: (1) orange juice, (2) industrial nitrocellulose from the United Kingdom, (3) polyester fleece sheet sets, (4) top-of-the-stove stainless steel cooking ware from the Republic of Korea, and (5) digital still image video cameras.

Makes a technical correction to the article description for stainless steel single-piece exhaust gas manifolds.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-07-17 00:00:00

Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through September 30, 2015.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-07-24 00:00:00

Residue Entries and Streamlining Trade Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to exempt from the U.S. customs laws the importation of instruments of international traffic (certain reusable containers, but excluding communications satellites) containing de minimis residual matter.

Defines the term "de minimis residual matter" to mean material remaining in the container after its contents have been unloaded before it is either refilled or cleaned.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-08-02 00:00:00

Reducing Waste and Increasing Efficiency in Trade Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to work with the head of each agency participating in the International Trade Data System (ITDS) and the Interagency Steering Committee to ensure that each such agency, among other duties, develops and maintains the necessary information technology infrastructure to support the operation of the ITDS, submit all data to the ITDS electronically, and arrange to share information between each agency and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2013-10-28 00:00:00

Buy American Improvement Act of 2013 - Requires the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy: (1) to promulgate regulations to standardize and simplify federal agency compliance with, and reporting on, Buy American requirements; (2) in developing Buy American  guidelines, to consider any significant decrease in U.S. employment resulting from the granting of waivers of Buy American requirements to be inconsistent with the public interest; and (3) to impose certain notice requirements on federal agency heads after receiving a request for a waiver and to require publication of the determination for why a waiver was granted.

Revises Buy American reporting requirements to require: (1) federal agencies to report to the Administrator, for the period FY2013-FY2018, on the amount of their acquisitions of articles, materials, or supplies purchased from entities outside the United States; and (2) the Administrator to submit to Congress a consolidated report on all agency reports received and make such report publicly available on a website.

Imposes limits on waiver determinations, including that a project cost determination will not be deemed unreasonable unless compliance with Buy American requirements causes an increase of overall project costs by more than 25%. Defines "substantially all" for purposes of Buy American requirements to mean that articles, materials, or supplies shall be treated as made substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States if the cost of the domestic components of such items exceeds 75% of the total cost of all such items.

Requires the Comptroller General to report on the extent to which, in FY2009-FY2013, articles, materials, or supplies acquired by the federal government were manufactured, mined, or produced outside of the United States.

Requires this Act to be applied consistently with U.S. obligations under international agreements.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-03-27 00:00:00

American Manufacturing and Worker Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to direct the Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to distribute semiannually all funds (including any interest earned) from duties assessed pursuant to a countervailing duty order or antidumping duty order or finding (antidumping and subsidy protection amount) to affected domestic producers for qualifying expenditures and cash to eligible employees.

Defines "affected domestic producer" to mean a currently operating manufacturer or producer that was a petitioner or interested party in support of a petition for which an antidumping duty order, finding, or countervailing duty order has been entered.

Defines "eligible employee" of an affected domestic producer as an individual who: (1) has been totally or partially separated from employment with that producer because of dumping or a subsidy for which an antidumping duty order, finding, or countervailing duty order has been entered; or (2) is an employee of the affected domestic producer at the time a distribution is made.

Defines "qualifying expenditures" to mean certain expenditures incurred by an affected domestic producer after the issuance of an antidumping duty order, finding, or countervailing duty order.

Requires the CBP Commissioner to establish in the Treasury a special account for each such order or finding and to deposit in those accounts all funds (including any interest earned) from antidumping or countervailing duties assessed on or after October 1, 2014.

Declares that the requirements of this Act shall apply with respect to goods from Canada and Mexico.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2014-04-09 00:00:00

American Pipeline Jobs and Safety Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to prescribe minimum safety standards to require gas or hazardous liquid pipelines constructed or replaced after enactment of this Act to be made of steel that: (1) is produced in the United States, and (2) originates from (or in the case of recycled steel is combined with) iron ore and taconite mined and processed in the United States (Buy America requirements).

Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirements if certain conditions are met.

Requires DOT inspection and testing of intrastate gas pipelines not covered by a state pipeline safety program certification or a state pipeline safety agreement to include direct, pre-installation testing of such pipelines for quality verification.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Immigration
Date: 2014-05-28 00:00:00

Elimination of Tariffs on Education for Children's Act or the ETEACH Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to grant duty-free treatment to electronic educational devices designed or intended primarily for children.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-05-29 00:00:00

Trade Protection Not Troll Protection Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to revise certain legal standards used to consider whether a domestic industry exists or is in the process of being established with respect to foreign countries that unlawfully import articles into the United States in violation of U.S. infringement laws.

Considers an industry to exist if there is in the United States substantial investment in licensing activities that leads to the adoption and development of articles that incorporate the patent, copyright, trademark, mask work, or design of protected articles.

Prohibits a complainant alleging a violation from relying upon activities by its licensees unless the license leads to such adoption and development.

Prescribes requirements with respect to U.S. International Trade Commission investigations of alleged violations.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-06-24 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 2025, the duty-free treatment on a specified quantity of certain cotton and man-made fiber, fabric, apparel, and made-up goods imported into the United States from Bahrain under the United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-07-30 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to prescribe requirements for the duty treatment of certain textile and apparel goods exported for processing abroad and subsequently reimported into the United States.

Revises requirements granting duty-free treatment of previously imported articles, for which a duty was paid or where no duty was paid, if:

 reimported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition while abroad, after having been exported under bailment agreements or for warehousing, repackaging, or both; and (as under current law) reimported by or for the account of the person who imported it into, and exported it from, the United States. Declares that, with respect to the duty imposed on the value of repairs or alterations made abroad to articles and subsequently imported into the United States:

 the article shall be considered to be the same article that was exported without regard to whether it contains one or more components recovered from an identical or similar article that was also exported from the United States, and the cost or value of any such components shall not be included in the value of the article when it enters the United States. Permits, with respect to such articles, the commingling of fungible goods exported from the United States, as well as use of an inventory management method to account for the origin, value, and classification of such goods.

Permits use of the manufacturer's identification (MID) code of the facility that repairs, alters, assembles, processes, stores, or otherwise handles the textile and apparel goods on any customs entry documentations or electronic data transmissions.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-09-09 00:00:00

Made-in-America Bank Act - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to redesignate the Export-Import Bank as the Made-in-America Bank.

Declares that all guarantees, loans, insurance, and any other benefits historically provided by the Export-Import Bank may only be made to a domestic entity that is not majority-owned by any foreign person or entity, and only for the purpose of acquiring goods or services made in America.

Extends the termination date of the Export-Import Bank from 2014 to 2016.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00

United States Optimal Use of Trade to Develop Outerwear and Outdoor Recreation Act or the 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.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-02-14 00:00:00

Directs the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify and report to the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures of the World Trade Organization (WTO) any WTO member with which this country maintains a material and persistent trade deficit that, for two consecutive years, fails to submit a notification of subsidies under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, or omits information or includes inaccurate information in a notification material to the totality of the member's subsidies.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-02-28 00:00:00

Nepal Trade Preferences Act - Authorizes the President to give preferential treatment to certain articles imported directly from Nepal into the U.S. customs territory if that country meets certain requirements under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, including a market-based economy and the rule of law, the protection of human rights and internationally-recognized worker rights, elimination of trade barriers to the United States, and non-engagement in activities that undermine U.S. national security or foreign policy interests or support acts of international terrorism. Requires Nepal also to meet certain eligibility criteria for designation as a beneficiary developing country under the Trade Act of 1974.

Authorizes certain import-sensitive articles (watches, electronic articles, steel articles, footwear and certain other apparel, and glass products) imported directly from Nepal to enter the U.S. customs territory duty-free if: (1) the article is the growth, product, or manufacture of Nepal; (2) the President determines, after receiving advice from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), that the article is not import-sensitive; and (3) the sum of the cost or value of the materials produced in, and the manufacturing costs performed in, Nepal or the U.S. customs territory is at least 35% of the appraised value of the article at the time it is entered. Limits to 15% of the appraised value of the article at the time it is entered the cost or value of the materials produced in, and the manufacturing costs performed in, the U.S. customs territory, and attributed to the 35% requirement.

Grants duty-free treatment to certain textile or apparel articles: (1) wholly assembled in Nepal, without regard to the country of origin of the yarn or fabric used to make them; and (2) imported directly from Nepal into the U.S. customs territory.

Prescribes requirements for handloomed, handmade, folklore articles or ethnic printed fabrics.

Terminates the extension of preferential treatment to Nepal after December 31, 2023.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-03-07 00:00:00

Low Value Shipment Regulatory Modernization Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Trade Representative (USTR) should encourage other countries, through bilateral, regional, and multilateral fora, to establish commercially meaningful de minimis values for express and postal shipments of articles that are exempt from customs duties and certain entry documentation requirements, as appropriate.

Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to increase from $200 to $800 for 2014, and to $800 adjusted annually for inflation after 2014, the aggregate retail value in the country of shipment of articles that may be imported duty-free into the United States by one person on one day.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-06-11 00:00:00

Nicaraguan Tariff Preference Level Extension Act of 2013 - Directs the President to proclaim an extension through December 31, 2024, of the preferential tariff treatment provided certain apparel goods imported into the United States from Nicaragua.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2013-06-24 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

All-American Flag Act - Requires any flags of the United States acquired for use by the federal government to be entirely manufactured in the United States from articles, materials, or supplies entirely grown, produced, or manufactured in the United States. Allows the head of an executive agency to waive such requirement upon determining that it would cause unreasonable costs or delays or would adversely affect a U.S. company.

Requires this Act to be applied in a manner consistent with U.S. obligations under international agreements.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-10-31 00:00:00

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear, and for other purposes.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-12-11 00:00:00

Level the Playing Field in Global Trade Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws provide targeted, effective relief against unfair trade practices and must be protected and enhanced; and (2) the failure to include within antidumping duty calculations the real costs of inadequate wages and insufficient workplace safety conditions and environmental controls has a substantial negative effect on U.S. manufacturing and the U.S. economy and fails to support efforts to improve conditions for working families and the environment in the United States and around the world.

Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to a fair comparison, for purposes of an antidumping investigation or review, between the actual or constructed export price of subject merchandise and its normal value. Requires an increase in the normal value price determination by the difference, if any, between the actual cost of producing the merchandise and the estimated cost of producing that merchandise if the producer paid its employees adequate wages and maintained sustainable production methods.

Requires the administering authority, at the request of an exporter or producer of subject merchandise, to reduce the amount of that increase (credit) by an amount that reflects the extent to which the merchandise was produced under conditions under which all employees receive adequate wages and sustainable production methods are maintained.

Authorizes an exporter or producer seeking to import merchandise into the United States to request the administering authority to issue a precertification that the merchandise is eligible for credits before an investigation is initiated.

Allows the administering authority to issue a precertification for all merchandise imported from a country if that country's government maintains and enforces laws requiring all producers of such merchandise in that country to pay its employees adequate wages and to maintain sustainable production methods.

Authorizes the administering authority, the Secretary of Labor, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish jointly procedures pursuant to which obtaining certification from an independent, third-party, standards-setting organization may demonstrate the eligibility for a precertification of an exporter or producer or of a country.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-12-17 00:00:00

GSP Update for Production Diversification and Trade Enhancement Act or GSP UPDATE Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to designate certain luggage and travel articles as eligible for duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2013-12-20 00:00:00

Extending Incentives for Exporting American Textiles Act of 2013 - Extends duty-free treatment, subject to specified quantitative limitations, for certain imported Nicaraguan woven trousers, breeches, or shorts.

Requires those articles to be accompanied by an earned import allowance certificate indicating the use of fabric and yarns wholly formed in the United States.

Extends such duty-free treatment for 10 years beginning on January 1, 2015.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2014-02-06 00:00:00

Wear American Act of 2014 - Directs the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to require federal agencies to procure textiles and apparel articles, including components for such articles, that are manufactured in the United States wholly from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced or manufactured in the United States.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2014-07-29 00:00:00

Buy it in America Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish the America Star Program as a voluntary program under which manufacturers may have products certified as meeting the standards of a label (i.e., America Star label) that indicates to consumers the extent to which such products are manufactured in the United States.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a new tax credit (angel investment tax credit) for up to 25% of equity investment in a small business entity that is located in the United States and engages in a qualified high technology trade or business; (2) make permanent the 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock; and (3) establish tax-exempt small business startup savings accounts to make distributions for small business operating capital, the purchase of equipment or facilities, marketing, training, incorporation, and accounting fees.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Tariff & Imports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-09-17 00:00:00

United States Optimal Use of Trade to Develop Outerwear and Outdoor Recreation Act or the 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 impose 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: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-02-03 00:00:00

GSP Update for Production Diversification and Trade Enhancement Act or the GSP UPDATE Act 

 Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to designate certain luggage and travel articles as eligible for duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).