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Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on mixtures of 9,10-anthracenedione, 1,8-dihydroxy-4-nitro-5- (phenylamino)- and 3- Pyridinecarbonitrile, 5-[2-(2- cyano-4-nitrophenyl) diazenyl]-2-[[2-(2- hydroxyethoxy)ethyl]amino]- 4-methyl-6-(phenylamino)- and 3-Pyridinecarbonitrile, 5-[(2-cyano-4-nitrophenyl) diazenyl]-6-[[2-(2- hydroxyethoxy)ethyl]amino]- 4-methyl-2-(phenylamino)- and Acetic acid, cyano-[3-[(6- methoxy-2-benzothiazoyl)amino]-1H-isoindol-1- ylidene]-, pentyl ester.

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 mixtures of 2,7-naphthalenedisulfonic acid, 4-amino-5-hydroxy-6-[2-[2-methoxy-5-[[2-(sulfooxy)ethyl]sulfonyl]]phenyl]diazenyl]-, sodium salt (1:4) and 2,7-Naphtalenedisulfonic acid, 4-amino-5-hydroxy-3,6-bix[2-[4-[[2-(sulfooxy)ethyl] sulfonyl]]phenyl]diazenyl]-, sodium salt (1:4).

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acid blue 324.

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 mixturesof cobaltate(3-), bis[2-[[[4-(hydroxy-kO)-3-[2-[2-(oxo-kO)-1-[(pheylamino) carbonyl] propyl] diazenyl-kN1] phenyl] sulfonyl] amino] benzoato(3-)]-, ammonium sodium and coaltate(2-), [2-[[[4-(hydroxy-kO)-3- [2-[2-(oxo-kO)-1-[(phenylamino) carbonyl] propyl] diazenyl-kN1] phenyl] sulfonyl] amino] benzoato (3-)][2-[2-[2-(hydroxy-kO)-5-[(phenylamino) sulfony] phenyl] diazenyl-kN1]-3- (oxokO)-N-phenylbutanamidato (2-)]-, ammonium sodium.

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 2,7-naphthalenedisulfonic acid, 3,3'-[carbonylbis(imino-4,1-phenylene-2,1-diazenydiyl)]bis[4-amino-5-hydroxy-6-(2-phenyldiazenyl)-, sodium salt (1:4).

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on disperse blue 77

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 extend temporarily the suspension of duty on cuprate (4-), [2-[[3-[[substituted]-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]- 2-hydroxy-5-sulfophenyl] (substituted)azo], sodium salt.

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 acetic acid, cyano-(3-[(6-methyoxy-2-benzothiazoyl)amino]-1H-isoindol-1-ylidene}-, pentyl ester.

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 2-naphthalenesulfonic acid, 5,5'[carobnylbis(imino-4,1-phenylene-2,1-diazenediyl)]bis[8-[2-(4-sulfophenyl)diazenyl]-, sodium salt (1:4).

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 extend temporarily the suspension of duty on vat blue 66.

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on disperse yellow 64.

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on disperse red 60.

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 staple fibers of viscose rayon, not carded, combed, or otherwise processed for spinning, measuring over 1.3 decitex but not over 1.66 decitex and having a fiber length each measuring 20 mm or more but not over 150 mm.

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on modacrylic staple fibers containing 35 percent or more but not over 85 percent by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not over 3 percent of water, not pigmented (ecru), crimped, with an average decitex of 2.2 (plus or minus 10 percent) and fiber length of 51 mm (plus or minus 10 percent).

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on modacrylic staple fibers containing 35 percent or more but not over 85 percent by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not over 3 percent of water, not pigmented (ecru), crimped, with an average decitex of 1.9 (plus or minus 10 percent) and fiber length of 51 mm (plus or minus 10 percent).

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acrylic staple fibers containing at least 85 percent by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not more than 3 percent of water, not dyed or pigmented (ecru), crimped, with an average decitex of 1.9 (plus or minus 10 percent) and fiber length of 51 mm (plus or minus 10 percent).

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acrylic staple fibers containing at least 85 percent by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not more than 3 percent of water, raw white (undyed), crimped, with an average decitex of 2.2 (plus or minus 10 percent) and fiber length of 38 mm (plus or minus 10 percent).

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acrylic staple fibers containing at least 85 percent by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not over 3 percent of water, raw white (undyed), crimped, with an average decitex of 1.3 (plus or minus 10 percent) and fiber length of 38 mm (plus or minus 10 percent).

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acrylic staple fibers (polyacrylonitrile staple) containing 85 percent or more by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not over 3 percent of water, not pigmented (ecru), crimped, with an average decitex of 1.3 (plus or minus 10 percent) and fiber length of 40 mm (plus or minus 10 percent).

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acrylic filament tow containing 85 percent or more by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not over 3 percent of water, raw white (undyed), crimped, with an average decitex of 4.1 (plus or minus 10 percent) and an aggregate filament measure in the tow bundle from 660,000 to 1,200,000 decitex, with a length greater than 2 meters.

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acrylic filament tow containing 85 percent or more by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not over 3 percent of water, raw white (undyed), crimped, with an average decitex of 2.2 (plus or minus 10 percent) and an aggregate filament measure in the tow bundle from 660,000 to 1,200,000 decitex, with a length greater than two meters.

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acrylic fiber tow containing 85 percent or more by weight of acrylonitrile units and 2 percent or more but not over 3 percent of water, raw white (undyed), crimped, with an average decitex of 3.3 (plus or minus 10 percent) and an aggregate filament measure in the tow bundle from 660,000 to 1,200,000 decitex, with a length greater than 2 meters.

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 staple fibers of viscose rayon, not carded, combed, or otherwise processed for spinning, measuring over 1 decitex but not over 1.3 decitex and having a fiber length each measuring 20 mm or more but not over 150 mm.

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 confectionery (including gum) containing synthetic sweetening agents (e.g., saccharin) instead of sugar.

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 preparations intended to assist smokers to stop smoking.

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 certain plaiting material products suitable for use in window shades.

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 provide temporarily for the duty-free treatment of acrylic filament tow imported in the form of 8 sub-bundles crimped together, each containing 24,000 filaments (plus or minus 10 percent).

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 acrylic filament tow imported in the form of bundles of crimped product, each containing 198,000 filaments (plus or minus 10 percent) with an average decitex of 4.0 to 5.6 (plus or minus 10 percent) and length greater than 2 meters.

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 extend the temporary suspension of duty on acrylic filament tow imported in the form of bundles of crimped product each containing 214,000 filaments (plus or minus 10 percent).

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 acrylic filament tow imported in the form of bundles of crimped product of 250,000 to 350,000 filaments (plus or minus 10 percent) with an average decitex of 2.4 to 3.7 (plus or minus 10 percent) and length greater than 2 meters.

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 acrylic staple fibers, not carded, combed, or otherwise processed for spinning, with a decitex of 2.4 to 3.7 (plus or minus 10 percent), a fiber shrinkage of from 0 to 22 percent (plus or minus 10 percent), and a cut fiber length of 89 to 140 mm, with a target length of 115 mm.

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 acrylic filament tow imported in the form of bundles of crimped product, each containing 250,000 filaments (plus or minus 10 percent) with an average decitex of 3.3 to 5.6 (plus or minus 10 percent) and length greater than 2 meters.

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 extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Pigment Yellow 154.

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 extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Pigment Yellow 175.

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 extend temporarily the suspension of duty on preparations based on ethanediamide, N-(2-ethoxyphenyl)- N'-(4-isodecylphenyl)-.

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 certain fitness equipment.

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 ceiling fans for permanent installation.

Date: 2012-08-02
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Enforcing Orders and Reducing Customs Evasion Act of 2012 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the Commissioner responsible for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), upon the filing of an allegation or a referral from another federal agency, to investigate claims of evasion of antidumping or countervailing duties with respect to covered merchandise entered into the United States. Defines "evasion" to mean entering covered merchandise into U.S. customs territory by means (except in the case of clerical error) of any document or electronically transmitted data or information, written or oral statement, or act that is material and false, or any material omission, which results in reduction or non-application of any cash deposit or other security or any amount of applicable antidumping or countervailing duties. Requires the Commissioner, if after the initiation of an investigation and a finding of reasonable suspicion, as an interim measure to: (1) suspend liquidation of each unliquidated entry of covered merchandise, (2) extend the period for liquidating each unliquidated entry entered before the date of such investigation, and (3) take such additional measures to protect U.S. revenue. Requires the Commissioner, in the case of an affirmative determination based on substantial evidence, to: (1) suspend or continue to suspend liquidation of unliquidated entries of covered merchandise, (2) extend or continue to extend the period for liquidating such entries, (3) request the administering authority (Secretary of Commerce or other responsible U.S. officer) to identify the applicable antidumping or countervailing duties or cash deposit rate for such entries, (4) require the posting of cash deposits and assess duties, and (5) take appropriate additional enforcement measures. Applies the amendments made by this Act to goods from Canada and Mexico. (Sec. 3) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on efforts being taken to prevent and investigate the entry of covered merchandise into the U.S. customs territory through evasion.

Date: 2012-09-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Low Value Shipment Regulatory Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to increase from $200 to $800 for FY2013, and to $800 adjusted annually for inflation after FY2013, 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.

Date: 2012-09-20
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Investment Tax Credit Integrity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the energy tax credit, to exclude from the basis of energy property for purposes of determining the amount of such credit, the amount of any antidumping or countervailing duty imposed on such property under the Tariff Act of 1930.

Date: 2012-09-21
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Taxation
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: 2013-01-04
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Services to Allow New Destinations for Tourism Act or STAND for Tourism Act - Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to authorize the Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), upon request, to enter into agreements with persons for the CBP to provide additional customs and immigration services at Customs ports of entry.

Requires such persons to pay a fee to reimburse CBP for such services.

Date: 2013-01-29
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Access to Birth Control Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require pharmacies to comply with certain rules related to contraceptives, including: (1) providing a customer a contraceptive without delay if it is in stock; (2) immediately informing a customer if the contraceptive is not in stock and either transferring the prescription to a pharmacy that has the contraceptive in stock or expediting the ordering of the contraceptive and notifying the customer when it arrives, based on customer preference, except for pharmacies that do not ordinarily stock contraceptives in the normal course of business; and (3) ensuring that pharmacy employees do not take certain actions relating to a request for contraception, including intimidating, threatening, or harassing customers, interfering with or obstructing the delivery of services, intentionally misrepresenting or deceiving customers about the availability of contraception or its mechanism of action, breaching or threatening to breach medical confidentiality, or refusing to return a valid, lawful prescription.

Provides that a pharmacy is not prohibited from refusing to provide a contraceptive to a customer if: (1) it is unlawful to dispense the contraceptive to the customer without a valid, lawful prescription and no such prescription is presented; (2) the customer is unable to pay for the contraceptive; or (3) the employee of the pharmacy refuses to provide the contraceptive on the basis of a professional clinical judgment.

Provides that this Act does not preempt state law or any professional obligation of a state board that provides greater protections for customers.

Sets forth civil penalties and establishes a a private cause of action for violations of this Act.

Date: 2013-02-14
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Health
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: 2013-02-14
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2013-03-06
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 Disperse Orange 30.

Date: 2013-03-11
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend through 2025 the production certificate program requiring the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior to jointly issue to producers of watches and watch movements in the U.S. insular possessions production certificates entitling the certificate holders to a refund of duties paid on such articles imported into the United States.

Date: 2013-03-12
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: 2013-03-21
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Enforcing Orders and Reducing Customs Evasion Act of 2013 - 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 and extend the liquidation of covered merchandise entered before such determination, (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 and extend the liquidation of covered merchandise entered before such determination, (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 FY2011-FY2012 because the Commissioner did not have the authority to reliquidate the entries of such merchandise.

Date: 2013-04-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Buy America Accountability Act of 2013 - Amends the Buy American Act to require the head of each federal department or independent establishment to submit to Congress a report that contains an evaluation of contractor compliance with the provisions of that Act for at least 10% of the contracts awarded during the fiscal year for the procurement of articles, materials, or supplies.

Requires the report to be publicly available.

Prohibits the report from covering acquisitions made by an agency, or a component thereof, that is an element of the intelligence community.

Date: 2013-04-10
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Fostering Rights through Economic Engagement in Vietnam Act or FREE Vietnam Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to add Vietnam to the list of countries ineligible for designation as a beneficiary developing country for purposes of duty-free treatment of its products under the generalized system of preferences unless the President certifies to Congress that Vietnam: (1) is not on the special watch list of countries not in compliance with minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking; (2) does not engage in pervasive violations of internationally-recognized human rights, including freedom of speech and freedom of religion; and (3) otherwise meets the requirements of this Act.

Authorizes the President to waive such requirements if it is in the U.S. national interest.

Date: 2013-04-23
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 footwear, and for other purposes.

Date: 2013-04-24
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Collectible Coin Protection Act - Amends the Hobby Protection Act to make it a violation of such Act for a person to provide substantial assistance or support to any manufacturer, importer, or seller if that person knows or consciously avoids knowing that such manufacturer, importer, or seller has engaged in any act or practice that violates requirements for plainly identifying imitation political items or imitation coins and other numismatic items. Provides that if such a violation also involves the unauthorized use of registered trademarks belonging to a collectibles certification service, the owner of such trademarks shall also have all rights provided under appropriate provisions of the Trademark Act of 1946.

Date: 2013-05-07
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Commerce
Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2013 - 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: 2013-05-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Law
Transparent Rules Allow Direct Exporting for Small Businesses and Jobs Act or TRADE for Small Businesses and Jobs Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to collect information on changes in foreign tariff and non-tariff laws, regulations, and practices affecting exports of U.S. goods and services other than U.S. agricultural commodities. Requires the Secretary to make such information available to U.S. exporters on the Export.gov website.

Date: 2013-05-09
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: 2013-05-23
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2013-06-06
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
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.

Date: 2013-07-17
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through September 30, 2015.

Date: 2013-07-17
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2013-07-24
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2013-08-02
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2013-10-28
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Government operations and politics
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.

Date: 2014-03-27
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2014-04-09
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Transportation and public works
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.

Date: 2014-05-28
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Immigration
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.

Date: 2014-05-29
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2014-06-24
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2014-07-30
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2014-09-09
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 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.

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
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.

Date: 2013-02-14
Topic: Foreign Trade (Tariff & Imports)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance