US Congress Senate Bill 2153 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 5 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-03-07 - See also H.R. 4105.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

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).

A bill to apply the countervailing duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 to nonmarket economy countries, and for other purposes.

Sen. Max Baucus [D-MT]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Tom Coburn [R-OK]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R-SC]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Carl Levin [D-MI]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-KY]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]
Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]	Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV]	Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-AL]
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. John Thune [R-SD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-07	Senate	See also H.R. 4105.
2012-03-05	Senate	Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1375-1376; text as passed Senate: CR S1375-1376)

HB4105 (Same As) 2012-03-13 - Became Public Law No: 112-99.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/2153/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s2153/BILLS-112s2153es.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s2153/BILLS-112s2153cps.pdf