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Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain rolling travel bags with a removable backpack or daypack.

Date: 2012-05-08
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain rolling travel bags without a removable backpack or daypack.

Date: 2012-05-08
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain rolling backpacks with a removable backpack or daypack.

Date: 2012-05-08
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain rolling backpacks without a removable backpack or daypack.

Date: 2012-05-08
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain rolling duffel bags with a removable backpack or daypack.

Date: 2012-05-08
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain rolling duffel bags without a removable backpack or daypack.

Date: 2012-05-08
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain golf bags.

Date: 2012-05-08
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on methyl-4-trifluoro methoxyphenyl-N-(chlorocarbonyl) carbamate.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on mixtures of indoxacarb and inert ingredients.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 1-Hydroxy cyclohexyl phenyl ketone.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on mixtures of certain types of Triazin.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on isomeric mixtures of substituted hydroxy phenyl triazines.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Reactive Red 238.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Reactive Blue 235.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on benzyl carbazate (hydrazinecarboxylic acid, phenylmethyl ester).

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Vat Black 25.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on mixtures of 5-methyl-5-(4-phenoxyphenyl)-3- (phenyl-amino)-2,4-oxazolidinedione](famoxadone), 2-cyano-N-[(ethylamino)- carbonyl]-2-(methoxyimino)acetamide (Cymoxanil) and application adjuvants.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Reactive Yellow 7459.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Pigment Yellow 154.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Pigment Yellow 175.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension of duty on certain cathode-ray tubes.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain yarn of carded wool.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain cotton yarn of combed fibers.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 2-Propenoic acid, polymer with diethenylbenzene.

Date: 2012-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Preventing Recurring Trade Evasion and Circumvention Act or PROTECT Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish within the Office of International Trade of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) a Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Division (including a National Targeting and Analysis Group) to prevent and counter evasion of antidumping or countervailing duty orders with respect to covered merchandise entered into the United States. Directs the Group to establish targeted risk assessment methodologies and standards for: (1) evaluating the risk that cargo destined for the United States may constitute evading covered merchandise, and (2) issuing Trade Alerts to U.S. ports of entry directing further inspection of specific merchandise to ensure compliance with U.S. trade remedy laws. Requires the Group also to use information available from the Automated Targeting System, the Automated Entry System, the International Trade Data System, and the Treasury Enforcement Communications System to administer such methodologies and standards. Amends the Trade Act of 2002 to repeal the prohibition against use by the Secretary of the Treasury of certain trade data for merchandise entry or commercial enforcement determinations. Requires the DHS Secretary, acting through the CBP Commissioner, to exercise all authorities to collect information needed to determine whether merchandise is entered into the United States through evasion. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to permit access to proprietary information submitted to the administering authority or the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to a CBP officer or employee who is conducting an investigation regarding negligence or gross negligence with respect to covered merchandise entered into the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate and enter into bilateral agreements with customs authorities of foreign countries to prevent evasion of U.S. and foreign trade remedy laws. Directs the CBP Commissioner to employ sufficient personnel who have expertise in and responsibility for preventing and investigating the entry of covered merchandise into the United States through evasion. Requires the weighted average dumping margin or individual countervailing duty rate determined for a new exporter (shipper) or producer of merchandise in a review by the administering authority as to whether antidumping or countervailing duties shall be imposed to be based solely on the bona fide U.S. sales made by the exporter or producer during the period of review. Applies the amendments made by this Act to goods from Canada and Mexico.

Date: 2012-05-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on strontium europium halophosphate for use in the production of fluorescent lamps.

Date: 2012-05-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Yttrium europium oxide for use in the production of fluorescent lamps.

Date: 2012-05-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on on Barium magnesium aluminum oxide for use in the production of fluorescent lamps.

Date: 2012-05-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Calcium chloride phosphate activated by manganese and/or antimony for use in the production of fluorescent lamps.

Date: 2012-05-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Lanthanum phosphate for use in the production of fluorescent lamps.

Date: 2012-05-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on instant print film for analog photography.

Date: 2012-05-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify the duty treatment of certain wrist watches. Applies to such watches the same staged rate reductions accorded certain other watches.

Date: 2012-05-15
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Butanedioic acid, dimethylester polymer with 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperdine ethanol.

Date: 2012-05-15
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension of duty on mixtures of N-phenyl-N-((trichloromethyl)thio)- benzenesulfonamide, calcium carbonate, and mineral oil.

Date: 2012-05-15
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on modified phenolic resin in alkaline solution.

Date: 2012-05-15
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 1,2-Bis(3-aminopropyl)ethylenediamine, polymer with N-butyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinamine and 2,4,6-trichloro-1,3,5-triazine.

Date: 2012-05-15
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Decanedioic acid, bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl) ester.

Date: 2012-05-15
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain plastic device book style covers.

Date: 2012-05-16
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain textile device book style covers.

Date: 2012-05-16
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain textile device covers and stands.

Date: 2012-05-16
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain plastic device covers and stands.

Date: 2012-05-16
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain horizontally-oriented lead shot machines.

Date: 2012-05-17
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain tool blocks.

Date: 2012-05-17
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain fitness equipment.

Date: 2012-05-17
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain suspension system stabilizer bars.

Date: 2012-05-17
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify the article description relating to the duty-free treatment of U.S. products returned after being exported to include products previously exported from the United States if returned within three years of being exported.

Date: 2012-05-17
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide duty-free treatment for certain federal property returned to the United States.

Date: 2012-05-17
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Creating Manufacturing Jobs and Promoting Fair Trade Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to increase the duty on polyurethane sponges. Prescribes requirements for the duty treatment of steel wool cleaning pads.

Date: 2012-06-07
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
(Sec. 1) Amends the African Growth and Opportunity Act to extend through FY2015 the third-country fabric rule granting duty-free treatment of apparel articles wholly assembled, or knit-to-shape and wholly assembled, or both, in one or more lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries, regardless of the country of origin of the fabric or the yarn used to make such articles. Revises the term "sub-Saharan African country" to include the Republic of South Sudan (South Sudan) under such Act. (Sec. 2) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify textile and apparel rules of origin for the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). (Sec. 3) Amends the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003 to renew, for three years, the President's authority to ban the import of Burmese products. Approves the renewal of certain import restrictions contained in the Act. Deems this resolution a renewal resolution which shall take effect upon its enactment or July 26, 2012, whichever occurs first. (Sec. 4) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require estimated tax payments which are otherwise due in the third quarter of 2017 for corporations with assets of at least $1 billion to be 100.25% of such amount. Requires the next required installment to be appropriately reduced to reflect the amount of this increase. (Sec. 5) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend certain customs users fees for the processing of merchandise entered into the United States from August 2, 2021, to October 22, 2021, and other specified customs users fees from December 8, 2020, to October 29, 2021.

Date: 2012-06-21
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Customs Training Enhancement Act - Directs the Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to establish educational seminars at U.S. ports of entry to improve the ability of CBP personnel to classify and appraise articles imported into the United States in accordance with U.S. customs laws, including their ability to identify and prevent the mislabeling and transshipment of such articles.

Date: 2012-07-12
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to: (1) modify the article description of certain cotton shirting fabrics, and (2) extend the temporary duty suspensions on such fabrics. Amends the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 to extend through December 31, 2015, the requirement that the Secretary of the Treasury 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 (currently, January 1, 1994). Repeals the limitation that pima cotton be grown in the United States from the formula for determination of annual payments to a nationally recognized association established for the promotion of pima cotton as well as to the yarn spinners of pima cotton. Limits the latter payments to yarn spinners of pima cotton that produce ring spun cotton yarns in the United States. Requires annual affidavits from shirting manufacturers and from yarn spinners.

Date: 2012-08-01
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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).

Date: 2012-08-02
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Generalized System of Preferences Improvement Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise the prohibition against the President's designation of a beneficiary developing country for purposes of duty-free treatment of its products under the generalized system of preferences. Prohibits the President from designating a country a beneficiary developing country if it: (1) enters into an agreement to afford preferential treatment to the products of a developed country other than the United States, unless the President certifies to Congress that it is in the U.S. national interests to make such designation; and (2) improperly uses sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, or other non-tariff trade barriers in a manner to negatively affect trade between the country and the United States. Adds as one of the factors the President must take into account in determining whether to designate a country as a beneficiary developing country the extent, if any, to which such country adopts and follows international sanitary or phytosanitary standards and provides scientific justifications for deviations from such standards. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on the status of market access within each covered beneficiary developing country, including findings with respect to whether or not it has adopted and followed international sanitary and phytosanitary standards and provides scientific justifications for any deviations from such standards.

Date: 2012-09-21
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Save Our Industries Act of 2011 or 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 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 fabric or 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. Prescribes single transformation duty-free rules for specified apparel articles, regardless of the source of the fabric, fabric components, components knit-to-shape, or yarns from which the articles are made, if they: (1) are wholly assembled, or knit-to-shape, in the Philippines from any combination of such components; and (2) are imported directly into the United States from the Philippines. Prescribes requirements for review and enforcement of the program. Prescribes penalties for exporters and importers who engage in the transshipment of apparel that has been afforded preferential treatment under this Act.

Date: 2011-01-25
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Affordable Footwear Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the reduction or elimination of duties on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefits to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain footwear (including children's shoes) made of rubber or plastics that are imported into the United States. Deems the outer sole of shoes made of rubber or plastics to which textile materials are attached or incorporated to be made only of rubber or plastics. Amends the Caribbean Basic Economic Recovery Act to provide footwear imported directly from Haiti into the United States with the same preferential treatment that is provided to certain imported footwear under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement.

Date: 2011-01-25
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Free and Fair Trade Act of 2011 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through June 30, 2012. Requires the liquidation or reliquidation (refund of duties) on such articles that entered into the United States after December 31, 2010, and before the 15th day after enactment of this Act. Makes ineligible for such treatment certain imported sleeping bags. Amends the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) to extend duty-free treatment or other preferential treatment of the products of Colombia and Ecuador through June 30, 2012. Extends through FY2012 preferential treatment for apparel articles assembled in one or more beneficiary countries from regional fabrics or regional components, and specified other type apparel (brassieres). Requires the liquidation or reliquidation (refund of duties) on such articles that entered into the United States after February 12, 2011, and before the 15th day after enactment of this Act. Extends the President's authority to take bilateral emergency action to grant duty-free treatment of certain apparel articles imported from an ATPDEA beneficiary country. Rescinds $2.3 billion in appropriated discretionary unexpired federal funds.

Date: 2011-03-02
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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: (1) the Secretary to make transfers to the Trust Fund for certain annual distributions (duty refunds) to nationally-recognized associations promoting U.S. pima cotton use in textile and apparel goods, yarn spinners of U.S. pima cotton, and U.S. manufacturers who certify by affidavit to have used such imported cotton in the manufacture of cotton shirts, and (2) the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to make such annual distributions. Requires annual affidavits from shirting manufacturers and from yarn spinners.

Date: 2011-03-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to prohibit U.S. courts from recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by an individual (under current law, by a designated Cuban national) of a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated by the Cuban government unless the original owner of such mark or name, or such owner's bona fide successor, has expressly consented. Applies such prohibition only if the individual asserting the rights knew or had reason to know at the time of acquiring the rights asserted that the mark or name was the same or substantially similar to the mark or name used in connection with the business or assets that were confiscated.

Date: 2011-03-16
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Law
Directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of medium density fiberboard.

Date: 2011-03-30
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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 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.

Date: 2011-03-31
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to revise the article description relating to certain imported stainless steel single-piece exhaust gas manifolds. Requires the liquidation or reliquidation (refund of duties) of such articles entered into the United States: (1) on or after January 1, 2010, and before the 15th day after enactment of this Act; and (2) with respect to which there would have been no duty or a reduced duty if the amendment made by this Act applied to such articles. Requires amounts owed by the United States to be paid, without interest, to an importer not later than 90 days after the liquidation or reliquidation of an entry.

Date: 2011-05-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Affordable Footwear Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the reduction or elimination of duties on certain imported footwear will result in reduced retail prices for a wide range of U.S. consumers. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for temporary duty-free or reduced-duty treatment of certain footwear (including children's shoes) made of rubber or plastics that are imported into the United States. Deems the outer sole of shoes made of rubber or plastics to which textile materials are attached or incorporated to be made only of rubber or plastics, with no account taken of the textile materials.

Date: 2011-05-25
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Enforcing Orders and Reducing Customs Evasion Act of 2011 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the Commissioner responsible for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to initiate, upon petition or a referral from another federal agency, an investigation into claims of evasion of antidumping or countervailing duties (including any cash deposits or other security) with respect to covered merchandise entered into the United States. Requires the Commissioner, in the case of an affirmative preliminary determination, to: (1) suspend liquidation of each unliquidated entry of the covered merchandise, (2) review and reassess the amount of bond or other security required to be posted for each entry of covered merchandise, (3) require the posting of a cash deposit for each entry, and (4) take other appropriate measures to ensure the collection of any duties that may be owed on covered merchandise. Requires the Commissioner, in the case of an affirmative final determination, to: (1) suspend or continue to suspend liquidation of each entry of covered merchandise, (2) notify the administering authority (Secretary of Commerce or other responsible U.S. officer) of the determination and request identification of the applicable antidumping or countervailing duties or cash deposit rate for such entries, (3) require the posting of cash deposits and assess duties, (4) review and reassess the amount of bond or other security required to be posted for covered merchandise entered on or after the date of such determination, and (5) take appropriate additional enforcement measures.Requires the administering authority to apply the highest applicable cash deposit or antidumping or countervailing duty in cases where the producer or exporter of covered merchandise is unknown. Applies the amendments made by this Act to goods from Canada and Mexico. Requires the Commissioner, to the maximum extent practicable, to ensure that CBP employs and assigns sufficient personnel to prevent the entry of covered merchandise in a manner that evades antidumping and countervailing duty orders or findings. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), the Commissioner, and the Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to assess and properly allocate the resources of CBP and ICE to improve efforts to investigate and combat evasion. Directs the Comptroller General to report on: (1) efforts to prevent the entry of covered merchandise into the U.S. customs territory through evasion, and (2) the estimated amount of duties that could not be collected on covered merchandise that entered U.S. customs territory through evasion during FY2009-FY2010 because the Commissioner did not have the authority to reliquidate the entries of such merchandise.

Date: 2011-05-26
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Removing Hurdles for American Manufacturers Act of 2011 - Directs the International Trade Commission (ITC) to propose to Congress temporary duty suspensions or duty reductions under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS). Prohibits the ITC from recommending any suspension or reduction in duty if: (1) an interested federal agency determines it is not in the U.S. interest and that determination is included in the agency public hearing record; (2) a domestic producer objects to the suspension or reduction, demonstrating that there is domestic production of the article concerned in commercially available quantities; (3) the loss in revenue to the United States from the duty suspension or reduction exceeds $500,000 annually (adjusted for inflation); or (4) the duty suspension or reduction is for more than three years.

Date: 2011-06-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Save Our Industries Act of 2011 or 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 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 fabric or components. Prescribes single transformation duty-free rules for specified apparel articles, regardless of the source of the fabric, fabric components, components knit-to-shape, or yarns from which the articles are made, if they: (1) are cut and wholly assembled, or knit-to-shape, in the Philippines from any combination of such components; and (2) are imported directly into the United States from the Philippines. Prescribes requirements for review and enforcement of the program. Prescribes penalties for exporters and importers who engage in the transshipment of apparel that has been afforded preferential treatment under this Act.

Date: 2011-06-22
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Fighting for American Industry's Right to Enforcement Against Duty Evasion Act or FAIR Enforcement Against Duty Evasion Act of 2011 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to eliminate the option of an importer to post a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of merchandise exported into the United States by a new exporter (shipper) and producer that is the subject of a review by the administering authority as to whether antidumping or countervailing duties shall be imposed on such merchandise. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe minimum standards to require customs brokers to implement, and customers (importers) to comply with, reasonable procedures for collecting information to identify U.S. and non-U.S. customers seeking to import merchandise into the United States. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress recommendations for: (1) determining the most effective way to require foreign nationals to provide customs brokers and federal agencies with accurate information, comparable to that required of U.S. nationals, on the identity of foreign nationals seeking to import merchandise into the United States; and (2) establishing a system for such brokers and agencies to review information maintained by relevant federal agencies to verify the identity of foreign nationals and U.S. nationals who seek to import merchandise into the United States. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement certain modifications to the importer of record database.

Date: 2011-09-20
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2011 - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to jurisdiction of courts in the United States over foreign manufacturers that import products into the United States. Directs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (with respect to drugs, devices, cosmetics, and biological products), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) (with respect to consumer products), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (with respect to chemical substances, new chemical substances, and pesticides) to require foreign manufacturers and producers of such products (or components used to manufacture them), in excess of a minimum value or quantity, to establish a registered agent in the United States authorized to accept service of process on their behalf for the purpose of any state or federal regulatory proceeding or civil action in state or federal court. Deems a foreign manufacturer or producer of products covered under this Act that registers an agent to consent to the personal jurisdiction of the state or federal courts of the state in which the agent is located for the purpose of any civil or regulatory proceeding. Requires any person who imports into the United States a covered product manufactured or produced outside the United States to provide to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) a declaration that to the best of the person's knowledge, with respect to the importation of each covered product, the foreign manufacturer or producer of the product has registered an agent in the United States. Directs the CBP Commissioner to prescribe related regulations. Subjects an importer who fails to provide or files a false declaration to certain penalties. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs jointly to study the feasibility and advisability of requiring foreign producers of food distributed in commerce to establish a registered agent in the United States who is authorized to accept service of process on behalf of such producers for the purpose of all civil and regulatory actions in state and federal courts. Requires the head of each agency cited in this Act similarly to study feasible and advisable methods of requiring foreign manufacturers or producers of component parts of covered products distributed in U.S. commerce to establish registered agents in the United States for purposes of such service of process.

Date: 2011-12-05
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Law
Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2011 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to aviation smuggling to extend its coverage of aircraft to: (1) any contrivance invented, used, or designed to navigate, or fly in, the air; and (2) ultralight vehicles. Subjects attempts or conspiracies to commit aviation smuggling to specified criminal penalties. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense (DOD) should continue the broad program of cooperation with the Secretary of Homeland Security to identify DOD equipment, technology, and expertise that could be leveraged by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to fulfill its missions. Urges DOD especially to ensure that DHS can identify DOD equipment and technology that could also be used by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to combat illicit trafficking across the international borders between the United States and Mexico and the United States and Canada, including any that could be used to detect and track the illicit use of ultralight aircraft.

Date: 2011-12-08
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
States that the Secretary of Energy (DOE) shall engage in any sale, purchase, or exchange activity involving the Strategic Petroleum Reserve only with a person certifying to the Secretary that the person is not directly or indirectly conducting transactions in or with Iran or an Iranian entity. Exempts from such restriction transactions relating to humanitarian assistance, agricultural products, medicine, or a medical device to Iran or an Iranian entity. Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to Congress every 180 days regarding Iranian imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

Date: 2012-02-01
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Energy
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 regarding the imposition of countervailing duties on imports into the United States from a country subsidizing, directly or indirectly, the manufacture, production, or export of merchandise which materially injures a U.S. industry or threatens to. Declares that merchandise on which countervailing duties must be imposed includes merchandise from a nonmarket country, unless the administering authority cannot identify and measure subsidies provided by the government of the nonmarket economy country (or a public entity within its territory) because the economy of that country is essentially composed of a single entity. Requires the administering authority to reduce the antidumping duty on a class or kind of merchandise from a nonmarket economy country in cases where: (1) such country (or a public entity within its territory) has provided the merchandise with a countervailable subsidy (other than an export subsidy); (2) the subsidy has reduced the average price of imports of that class or kind of merchandise during the relevant period; and (3) the extent to which the subsidy, in combination with the use of normal value, has increased the weighted average dumping margin for such merchandise can be reasonably estimated. Requires the administering authority, in such cases, to reduce the antidumping duty by the amount of the increase in the weighted average dumping margin estimated (but not by more than the portion of the countervailing duty rate attributable to the countervailable subsidy).

Date: 2012-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain ski boots, cross country ski footwear, and snowboard boots.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on yarn of carded hair of Kashmir (cashmere) goats, of yarn count less than 19.35 metric, not put up for retail sale.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on fine animal hair of Kashmir (cashmere) goats, processed beyond the degreased or carbonized condition.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on yarn of carded cashmere of 19.35 metric yarn count or higher.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on yarn of combed cashmere or yarn of camel hair.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on camel hair, carded or combed.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on woven fabrics containing 85 percent or more by weight of vicuna hair.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on waste of camel hair.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on camel hair, not processed in any manner beyond the degreased or carbonized condition.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on camel hair, processed beyond the degreased or carbonized condition.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on noils of camel hair.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on yarn of carded camel hair.

Date: 2012-04-19
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to grant temporarily duty-free treatment of 4-methoxy-2-methyldiphenylamine.

Date: 2012-04-23
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain direct injection fuel injectors.

Date: 2012-04-23
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain hybrid electric vehicle inverters.

Date: 2012-04-23
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain power electronic boxes and static converter composite units.

Date: 2012-04-23
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain motor generator units.

Date: 2012-04-23
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on lithium ion electrical storage batteries.

Date: 2012-04-23
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain high pressure fuel pumps.

Date: 2012-04-23
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain clock movements.

Date: 2012-04-24
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to temporarily increase the duty on (3-acetoxy-3-cyanopropyl) methylphosphinic acid, butyl ester.

Date: 2012-04-25
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain food processors.

Date: 2012-04-25
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain coffee makers.

Date: 2012-04-25
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain handheld food blenders.

Date: 2012-04-25
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on vacuum-grade ferroniobium or ferrocolombium.

Date: 2012-04-26
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on manganese flake containing at least 99.5 percent by weight of manganese.

Date: 2012-04-26
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on mixtures containing imidacloprid and thiodicarb.

Date: 2012-04-26
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance