(Conference report filed in House H.Rept. 98-1156) Omnibus Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 - Title I: Tariff Schedules Amendments - Subtitle A: Reference to Tariff Schedules - Declares that amendments to the Schedules refer to the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Subtitle B: Permanent Changes in Tariff Treatment - Amends the Schedules to: (1) provide that any fabric that contains nontransparent rubber or plastic shall be regarded not as a textile material but as being wholly rubber or plastic; (2) grant permanent duty-free treatment to warp knitting machines and to provide that knitting machines other than warp knitting machines shall be subject to the same staged rate reductions in column one duty treatment as warp knitting machines were scheduled to receive; (3) define, for duty purposes, the differences between dress and work gloves; (4) provide uniform tariff treatment of pet toys; (5) grant permanent duty-free treatment to imported water chestnuts and bamboo shoots; (6) lower the duty on imported gut used in the manufacture of surgical sutures and to provide for staged rate reductions in such duty; (7) impose a lower duty on orange juice which is not concentrated than the duty on orange juice concentrate and reconstituted orange juice; (8) provide duty-free treatment to previously imported articles upon which a duty was paid if: reimported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition while abroad, after having been exported under lease (currently, having been exported under lease to a foreign manufacturer); and, reimported by or for the account of the person who imported it into, and exported it from, the United States; (9) grant duty-free treatment to the rendering of geophysical or contracting services in connection with the exploration or extraction of natural resources; (10) permit the duty-free entry of scrolls or tablets of wood or paper which are imported for use in public or private religious observances, whether or not imported for the use of a religious institution. Adds as a new item tapered steel pipes and tubes that are used as parts of illuminating articles. Sets forth the duty for such tubes. Applies to such tubes any reduction in the duty rate as authorized under the Trade Act of 1974. Provides that no rate of duty shall be provided for such tubes under column LDDC (Least Developed Developing Countries) whenever the rate of duty in column 1 for such items is less than the rate of duty for such items in column LDDC. Provides that articles of apparel, except suits, pajamas and other nightwear, playsuits, washsuits, judo, karate and other martial arts uniforms, swimwear, and infants' sets up to and including 2 years of age, are to be separately classified even if two or more such articles are imported together and designed to be sold at retail. Provides duties on whey protein concentrate and milk protein concentrate. Grants duty-free treatment of lactalbumin. Defines "milk protein concentrate" as any complete milk protein (casein plus albumin) concentrate that is 40 percent or more protein by weight. Defines the term "entertainment broadcast band receivers" to mean radio receivers designed principally to receive signals in the AM and FM entertainment broadcast bands whether or not capable of receiving signals on other bands. Creates a tariff classification for and imposes a duty on: (1) telephone switching apparatus (including private branch exchange and key system switching apparatus); (2) telephone sets and terminal equipment; (3) other switching apparatus; and (4) other terminal apparatus. Grants duty free treatment to communications satellites. Creates a tariff classification for and imposes a duty on: (1) radio receivers, other than solid-state receivers; (2) solid-state radio receivers designed for motor vehicle installation; (3) other entertainment broadcast band receivers; (4) hand-held citizens band transceivers; (5) low-power radio-telephonic transceivers operating on specified frequencies; (6) cordless handset telephones; (7) transmitters; (8) telephone answering machines; (9) radio-television-phonograph combination articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus, instruments, or networks; (10) insulated electrical conductors with modular telephone connectors; (11) electrical equipment designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus, instruments, or networks; (12) optical fiber bundles; and (13) optical fibers and optical fiber cables. Reduces the duty from 25 percent ad valorem to five percent ad valorem on fresh asparagus entered during the period from September 15 through November 15, in any year. Extends duty-free treatment to imports of chipper knife steel. Makes certain technical changes so that the Schedules conform with the Customs Convention on Containers, 1972. Subtitle C: Temporary Changes in Tariff Treatment - Reduces through December 31, 1987, the duty on certain brussels sprouts that are not reduced in size and certain brussels sprouts that are reduced in size. Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) 4-chloro-3-methylphenol through December 31, 1987; (2) uncompounded allyl resins through December 31, 1987; (3) tartaric acid and tartaric chemicals through December 31, 1988; (4) natural graphite through December 31, 1987; (5) certain forms of zinc through December 31, 1989; and (6) certain clock radios through December 31, 1986. Suspends the duty on: (1) B-naphtol through December 31, 1987; (2) 3,3-diaminobenzidine through December 31, 1988; (3) 6-amino-1-naphthol-3-sulfonic acid through December 31, 1987; (4) diphenyl guanidine and di-ortho-tolyl guanidine through December 31, 1987; (5) 2-(4-aminophenyl)-6-methylbenzothiazole-7-sulfonic acid through December 31, 1987; (6) a certain chemical intermediate, (6R,7R)- 7-(R)-2-amino-2-phenylacetamido-3-methyl-8-oxo-5-thia- 1-azabicyclo 4. 2. 0 oct-2-ene-2-carboxylic acid disolvate through December 31, 1987; (7) acetylsulfaguanidine through December 31, 1987; (8) mixtures of potassium 1-(p-chlorophenyl) -1, 4- diydro -6-methyl-4-oxopyridozine-3-carboxylate (fenridazon-potassium) and formulation adjuvants through December 31, 1987; (9) sulfamthazine through December 31, 1987; (10) sulfaguanidine through December 31, 1987; (11) terfenadine through December 31, 1987; (12) sulfathiazole through December 31, 1987; (13) sulfaquinoxaline and sulfanilamide through December 31, 1987; (14) dicyclomine hydrochloride and mepenzolate bromide through December 31, 1987; (15) amiodarone through December 31, 1987; (16) desipramine hydrochloride through December 31, 1987; (17) clomiphene citrate through December 31, 1987; (18) materials and compounds containing more than 19 percent but less than 85 percent of yttrium oxide equivalent through December 31, 1988; (19) mixtures of 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, magnesium chloride and magnesium nitrate through December 31, 1987; (20) nicotine resin complex through December 31, 1987; (21) rifampin through December 31, 1987; (22) lactulose through December 31, 1987; (23) iron dextran complex through December 31, 1987; (24) industrial diamonds of tool and drill blanks through December 31, 1987; (25) lace-braiding machines and parts through December 31, 1987; (26) fabric weaving machines through December 31, 1987; and (27) metal frames for hand-held umbrellas through December 31, 1986. Provides duty-free treatment on magnetron tubes used in stoves and ranges through December 31, 1986. Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) crude feathers and down through December 31, 1987; (2) certain textile fabrics used in the manufacture of hovercraft skirts through December 31, 1987; and (3) flat knitting machines through December 31, 1988. Reduces the duty on: (1) certain disposable surgical drapes and sterile gowns through December 31, 1988; (2) caffeine through December 31, 1987; and (3) certain water crystals through December 31, 1987 (including an even lower LDDC rate of duty). Suspends, through December 31, 1987, the duty on: (1) 4, 4-Bis (a,a-dimethylbenzyl) diphenylamine; (2) flecainide acetate; and (3) MXDA (meta-Xylena-Diamine) and 1,3-BAC (a,3-Bis(aminomethyl)-cyclohexame). Extends the tariff reduction for certain unwrought lead through December 31, 1988. Extends the duty on canned corned beef through December 31, 1989. Suspends the duty on: (1) certain menthol feedstocks through December 31, 1987; (2) 2 - Methyl -4-chlorophenol through December 31, 1987; (3) circular knitting machines designed for sweater or garmet lenght knitting through December 31, 1989; (4) O-benzyl-p-chlorophenol through December 31, 1987; and (5) certain unwrought alloys of cobalt through December 31, 1987. Grants duty-free treatment, through December 31, 1987, to m-Toluic acid. Subtitle D: Technical Amendments - Makes various technical amendments to the Schedules. Subtitle E: Effective Dates - Provides the effective dates for the amendments made by this title. Title II: Customs and Miscellaneous Amendments - Subtitle A: Amendments to Tariff Act of 1930 - Provides that amendments to this Act refer to amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) to provide for the refund ("drawback") of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported or domestic merchandise that is fungible and is, within three years, exported or destroyed under Customs supervision and is: (1) not used within the United States; (2) in the possession of the party claiming such drawback; and (3) in the same condition at the time of such exportation or destruction as was the imported merchandise at the time of its importation. Makes available certain information contained in the manifests of cargo vessels arriving in the United States. Provides that such information shall not be made available to the public if: (1) such disclosure would cause personal injury or property damage; or (2) such information must be kept secret for reasons of national defense or foreign policy. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish procedures to provide access to such manifests. Exempts from the entry requirements of the Act those passenger vessels on a round trip from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the British Virgin Islands and licensed yachts or undocumented American pleasure vessels not engaged in trade. Allows such exemption only if such vessels do not violate U.S. customs laws and have not visited any hovering vessel. Requires the master of the vessel to report to appropriate customs officials any article required by law to be entered. Provides that the same requirements be applied with respect to vessels returning from the British Virgin Islands. Provides civil penalties for persons who import, export, or attempt to import or export: (1) any stolen self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part; or (2) a self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part knowing that its identification number has been altered. Requires the forfeiture of any such vehicle or vehicle part. Requires that persons who attempt to export a used self-propelled vehicle must present to the appropriate customs officer the vehicle and a document describing such vehicle. States that customs officers may cooperate or exchange information (either before or after exportation or importation) with respect to motor vehicles, off-highway mobile equipment, vessels, or aircraft with any Federal, State, local, and foreign governmental authorities engaged in theft prevention. Increases from $250 to $1,250 the value of imported goods eligible for informal entry. Requires that specified imported iron or steel pipes or pipe fittings, imported compressed gas cylinders, and imported manhole rings or frames shall be marked with the English name of the country where they were manufactured. Exempts vessels designed and used primarily for transporting passengers or property from the duty on equipment and repairs made in a foreign country on a U.S. flag vessel unless the vessel left the United States for the sole purpose of obtaining such equipment or repairs. Provides that the return of articles from space, under specified circumstances, shall not be considered as an importation. Defines "industry" with respect to processed agricultural products. Defines "processed agricultural products". Provides that customs duties will be due on the date of liquidation or reliquidation. Provides that if payment of the duties is not made within 30 days of such date, then such payment will be considered delinquent and bear interest from the date of liquidation or reliquidation. Provides a refund on any overpayment of duty and interest thereon if an entry is reliquidated as a result of: (1) a protest being filed; (2) a clerical error; or (3) a court order. Provides that if a State or local authority (incident to its jurisdiction over an airport, or other exit point facility) requires its approval with respect to the operation of a duty-free sales enterprise under which merchandise is delivered to such facility for exportation, then merchandise incident to such operation may not be withdrawn from a bonded warehouse and transferred to such facility unless the operator of such duty-free sales enterprise demonstrates to the Secretary of the Treasury that the required approval has been obtained. Prohibits an individual (other than solely for that person) or corporation from conducting customs business (activities involving transactions with the Customs Service concerning the entry and payment of duties on imported merchandise) unless a valid customs brokers license and permit has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury to such individual or corporation. Permits the granting of such license to a corporation provided at least one officer of such corporation holds a customs brokers license. (Currently, at least two officers of a corporation must hold a license in order for the corporation to conduct customs business.) Provides for the revocation or suspension of such license and permit, or the imposition of a monetary penalty, for a customs broker who: (1) fails to have such a license and permit while transacting customs business; (2) makes false statements on an application for such license or permit, or on a report filed with the Customs Service; (3) has been convicted of certain felonies or misdemeanors after the filing of an application for such license; (4) is licensed as a corporation and fails to have at least one officer validly licensed for a continuous period of 120 days (currently, it is for a continuous 60 day period); or (5) fails to employ for the same period at least one licensed individual within the district in which a permit was issued. Permits a broker to appeal any decision by the Secretary to deny, revoke, or suspend such broker's license or permit, or to impose a monetary penalty upon him or her, by filing a petition in the Court of International Trade. Permits the Secretary to prescribe regulations relating to the issuance of licenses or permits to customs brokers. Permits the suspension or revocation of a brokers license if a customs broker triennial report is not filed with the Secretary. Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Court of International Trade to review any decision of the Secretary to: (1) deny an individual a license or permit; (2) revoke a license due to operation of law; or (3) impose a monetary penalty due to a violation under the Act. Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Court of International Trade on civil action cases which arise out of an import transaction and which are commenced by the United States to recover a monetary penalty due to a violation under the Act. Permits an individual whose license or permit has been denied or revoked due to operation of law to commence an action for review in the Court of International Trade. Provides for the commencement of such actions in cases where a monetary penalty has been imposed. Prohibits the commencement of an action unless it is commenced within 60 days after the entry of a decision relating to: (1) the denial or revocation of a license or permit; or (2) the imposition of a monetary penalty. Provides that the scope of review for decisions by the Secretary to suspend or revoke a broker's license and permit shall be made on the basis of the record before the court in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle, except for the administrative hearing procedure on the revocation or suspension of a license or permit which shall be made in accordance with 5 USC 706. Provides that with respect to the collection or assessment of a monetary penalty imposed under the Act, the Court of International Trade may not render a judgment in a greater amount than that sought in the initial pleading of the United States. Prohibits a customs officer from permitting the delivery of imported merchandise from a public store or bonded warehouse until proof is produced showing that any customs broker's lien has been satisfied or discharged. Authorizes the Secretary to provide a refund in cases where excess duties have been paid prior to the liquidation of an entry because of clerical error. Provides for the seizure of vessels, aircraft, merchandise, or baggage valued at $100,000 or less except in the case of conveyances used to import, export or transport controlled substances, for which there is no limit to the value of items that may be seized. Requires written notice of such seizure to all interested parties. Increases the surety bond for any person claiming an interest in the seized property of up to $2,500, or ten percent of the value of the claimed property, whichever is less. Establishes in the Treasury the Customs Forfeiture Fund to pay for maintenance of forfeited property, awards to informants, liens, mortgages, and the purchase of evidence of any violation. Requires the deposit in such fund of all proceeds from the sale and disposition of property forfeited under customs law. Allows transfer of the property for forfeiture under State law. Increases from $50,000 to $250,000 the award of compensation given to informers for information leading to forfeiture. Grants customs officers arrest authority and the right to carry firearms. Repeals provisions of the Internal Revnue Code dealing with customs officers' law enforcement authority to conform to this Act. Sets forth effective dates. Subtitle B: Small Business Trade Assistance - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to establish within the International Trade Commission (ITC) a Trade Remedy Assistance Office to provide the public, upon request, information concerning: (1) remedies and benefits available under the trade laws; and (2) the petition and application procedures, and the appropriate filing dates, with respect to such remedies and benefits. Requires agencies administering a trade law to provide technical assistance to small businesses with regard to the filing of trade relief petitions. Includes specified provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, the Tariff Act of 1930, and the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 in the term "trade laws." Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act to provide that bicycle component parts shall not be exempt under the customs exemption provided by such Act unless the parts are re-exported from the United States. Exempts from State and local ad valorem taxation: (1) tangible personal property imported from outside the United States and held in a foreign-trade zone for certain purposes; and (2) tangible personal property produced in the United States and held in a zone for exportaton. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a business expense deduction for advertisements placed with a foreign broadcast station and directed to a market in the United States if a similar deduction is denied in the country in which such station is located for an advertisement placed with a U.S. broadcast station and directed to a market in that country. Amends Federal firearms laws to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize the importation by licensed importers of: (1) rifles and shotguns that are listed as curios or relics; and (2) handguns that are listed as curios or relics if such handguns are generally recognized as suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes. Amends the Schedules to authorize the President to provide both duty-free treatment under column 1 and modifications in the descriptions of specified articles of the Tariff Schedules of the United States that are certified for use in civil aircraft. Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide a bond on products from a beneficiary country that are imported directly from such country into Puerto Rico for processing or use in manufacturing in Puerto Rico. Prohibits the imposition of a duty on the withdrawal from warehouse of such prodcuts if, at the time of such withdrawal, such products meet specified requirements. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to charge a user fee to individuals for the use of customs services at the Lebanon, New Hampshire, airport and other designated airports. Provides a formula for the designation of such airports. Sets forth penalties for the failure to pay such user fee. Requires the Commissioner of Customs to notify specified congressional committees relating to any action which would: (1) result in a significant reduction in force of employees other than by attrition; (2) eliminate or relocate any U.S. Customs Service office or port of entry; or (3) significantly reduce the number of employees assigned to such office or port of entry. Requires the Commission of the U.S. Customs Service to establish the Columbia-Snake Customs District which includes Oregon, and specified counties of the States of Idaho and Washington. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to reliquidate, within six months of the date of enactment of this Subtitle, the entry of two mass spectrometer systems which were imported into the United States for the use of Montana State University and with respect to applications to the International Trade Administration for duty-free entry of scientific equipment if the Secretary of Commerce finds that such systems are eligible for duty-free treatment under specified sections of the Schedules. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to admit duty-free any article provided by the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona and the Max Planck Institute for the construction and operation of a specified telescope if: (1) such article is within the meaning of a specified section of the Schedules; and (2) no such articles of equivalent scientific value for which such article is to be used is being manufactured in the United States. Grants duty-free entry treatment for research equipment imported for the use of North Dakota State University after September 15, 1983. Provides duty-free treatment to a pipe organ for use by a named cathedral. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reliquidate as duty-free specified entries covering scientific equipment for a named cancer hospital. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide a refund of any duty paid on organs imported for the use by Trinity Cathedral of Cleveland, Ohio during 1973 through 1978. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should continue to oppose: (1) the imposition of restrictions on European Community (EC) imports of nongrain feed ingredients and corn gluten and should support the current duty-free binding on such products; and (2) EC proposals which violate the duty-free binding on soybeans and soybean products under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and reaffirm the United States' position that the imposition of a consumption tax by EC on vegetable fats and oils would represent a restraint of trade. States that if EC action is taken to inhibit the importation of such products, then the United States should restrict EC imports by the same proportion of reduced U.S. export products. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should request the President to call for an ITC investigation of honey imports. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should negotiate with the principal foreign copper-producing countries to conclude voluntary restraint agreements to effect a balanced reduction of foreign copper production to: (1) allow the price of copper on international markets to rise to levels that will permit the remaining copper operations located in the United States to attract needed capital; and (2) achieve a secure domestic supply of copper. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should submit a report to Congress explaining the results of such negotiations or why such negotiatons are unnecessary. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require that import relief actions recommended by the ITC shall take effect, even though the President proposes different actions, upon the enactment of a joint resolution of the Congress within the 90-day period beginning on the date on which the President's actions are transmited to the Congress. (Currently, such congressional approval is by concurrent resolution of both Houses and must occur within 90 days of receiving such proposal.) Requires the President to impose the action which was recommended by the ITC within 30 days after the enactment of such joint resolution. Expresses the sense of Congress that copyright protection is essential for computer software and lack of such protection or the use of other legal protections incorporating compulsory licensing would undermine the computer software industry here and abroad. States that any nation's withdrawal of copyright protection or instigation of broad compulsory licensing of software should be opposed under the Universal Copyright Convention or through other avenues. Title III: International Trade and Investment - International Trade and Investment Act - Provides that, for purposes of this title, amendments to the Act refer to amendments to the Trade Act of 1974. Amends the Act to set forth provisions dealing with foreign trade barriers. Directs the United States Trade Representative, (USTR) through the interagency trade organization established pursuant to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, to identify, analyze, and estimate the impact of practices that constitute significant barriers to or distortions of: (1) U.S. exports of goods or services; and (2) foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, especially if it has implications for trade in goods or services. Sets forth factors to be considered by the USTR in such analysis. Directs the USTR to update the analysis annually. Directs the USTR to submit the analysis to the appropriate congressional committees. Requires the report to include any action taken to eliminate such trade barriers. Directs the USTR to consult with Congress on trade policy priorities. Directs Federal agencies to furnish information and other assistance to prepare such analysis. Authorizes the President to respond to a foreign entity's unfair trade practices by taking action with respect to any goods or sector of such entity without regard to whether such goods or sector were involved in the unfair trade practice. (Current law provides that the President may take action against the products or services of the foreign entity.) Authorizes the President to propose legislation to protect U.S. trade rights or to eliminate unfair trade practices. Requires such legislative proposals to be given priority treatment. Requires a summary of a petition for a trade investigation by the USTR to be published in the Federal Register (currently, the entire petition must be published) if the USTR decides to begin an investigation with respect to the issues raised by the petition. Authorizes the USTR to initiate an investigation in order to advise the President concerning the exercise of the President's authority to take action against unfair trade practices. Directs the USTR to consult with the appropriate congressional committees before beginning such an investigation. Authorizes the USTR to delay for up to 90 days any request for consultation by a foreign entity concerning a petition for investigation into unfair trade practices. Directs the USTR to publish notice of the delay in the Federal Register and to report to Congress the reasons for the delay. Changes the definition of "commerce" for purposes of foreign trade investigations to include: (1) services associated with international trade, whether or not related to specific goods (currently products); and (2) foreign direct investment by U.S. persons with implications for trade in goods or services. Defines "unreasonable", "unjustifiable," and "discriminatory" for purposes of such investigations. Prohibits making information which the USTR has received in a trade investigation available to the public, if: (1) the person who provided the information makes a specified certification; (2) the USTR determines that such certification is well-founded; and (3) the person providing the information provides an adequate nonconfidential summary. Authorizes the USTR to use the information in trade investigations or to make it available to the public in a form which cannot identify the person providing the information. Sets forth the principal U.S. negotiating objectives with respect to trade in services, foreign direct investment, and high technology products. Directs the USTR to develop and coordinate the implementation of U.S. policies concerning trade in services. Requires Federal agencies responsible for regulating any service sector industry to advise and work with the USTR concerning: (1) the treatment afforded U.S. services sector's interest in foreign markets; or (2) allegations of unfair practices by foreign governments or companies in a service sector. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish a service industries development program. Sets forth the goals of the program. Expresses the policy of the Congress that the President shall: (1) consult with State governments on trade policy issues affecting the regulatory authority on non-Federal governments or their procurement of goods and services; and (2) establish one or more intergovernmental policy advisory committees on trade. Authorizes the President to establish policy advisory committees representing non-Federal governmental interests to provide policy advice on trade negotiating objectives, bargaining positions, and the implementation of trade agreements. Authorizes the President to negotiate to reduce trade barriers in foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, especially if such investment has implications for trade in goods and services. Directs the USTR to obtain the reduction and elimination of any export performance requirements of a foreign country that adversely affects the economic interests of the United States. Permits the imposition of duties or import restrictions by the USTR on the products or services of such country. Provides compensation to such countries under appropriate circumstances. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements concerning high technology industries. Authorizes the President to proclaim the modification, elimination, or continuance of any existing duty, duty- free, or excise treatment, or any additional duties to carry out agreements concluded under the Act. Requires the President to exercise this authority only with respect to specified items listed in the U.S. Tariff Schedules. Provides for the termination of such authority within five years after the enactment of this Act. Title IV: Trade with Israel - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 (the Act) to permit trade agreements with Israel that eliminate or reduce any duty imposed by the United States. Provides that the negotiation of such eliminations or reductions shall take into account any product that benefits from a discriminatory preferential tariff arrangement between Israel and a third country, if the tariff preference on such product has been the subject of a challenge by the United States under the authority of the Trade Act of 1974 and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Prohibits the extension of any trade benefit to a country by reason of the extension of any such benefit to Israel. Permits trade agreements that eliminate or reduce any duty imposed by the United States with any other country than Israel if specified requirements are met. Revises the term "barrier" to include any duty or other import restriction. Revises the term "implementing bill" to include specified provisions relating to trade agreements with Israel. Sets forth conditions for finding an Israeli article eligible for duty-free treatment under this title. Authorizes the President to suspend duty-free treatment for such Israeli articles and to proclaim a duty rate for such articles if such action is proclaimed under the import relief provision of the Trade Act of 1974 or under the national security provision of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Requires the International Trade Commission (ITC) to state in any report to the President on the need for import relief from a duty-free article under the Trade Act of 1974 whether the report applies to such an article when imported from Israel. Prohibits making a proclamation which provides solely for a suspension of duty-free treatment unless the ITC, in addition to making an affirmative determination under the Trade Act of 1974, determines that the serious injury or threat of serious injury substantially caused by imports results from the duty-free treatment provided to imports from Israel. Provides that import relief proclamations issued under the Trade Act of 1974 which effect articles covered by this title shall remain in effect until modified or terminated. Authorizes the President to modify or terminate such import relief provisions. Authorizes filing a petition for emergency import relief with the Secretary of Agriculture regarding imports of perishable products from Israel which are given duty free treatment under this title if a petition for import relief affecting such products is filed with the ITC. Sets forth a procedure for dealing with such emergency import relief petitions. Prohibits the duty-free treatment granted under this title to Israeli imports from affecting the application of laws providing relief from injury caused by import competition or by unfair import trade practices. Prohibits extending a trade benefit to an other country by reason of the extension of a trade benefit to Israel under this title. Title V: Generalized System of Preferences Renewal - Generalized System of Preferences Renewal Act of 1984 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the President, in determining whether to provide duty-free treatment for an eligible article from a beneficiary developing country, to consider: (1) the effect such action will have on furthering the economic development of such countries through the expansion of their exports; and (2) the extent of the beneficiary developing country's competitiveness with respect to eligible articles. Provides that Hungary may be designated as a beneficiary developing country. Prohibits the President from designating as a beneficiary developing country any country that has not taken or is not taking steps to afford internationally recognized worker rights to workers in that country (including any designated zone in that country). Defines "internationally recognized worker rights." Directs the President, in determining whether to designate a country a beneficiary developing country, to consider: (1) the extent to which such country is providing the means for foreign nationals to exercise exclusive rights in intellectual property, including a patent, trademark, and copyright rights; (2) the extent to which such country has taken action to reduce trade distorting investment practices and policies and to reduce or eliminate barriers to trade in services; and (3) whether such country has taken or is taking steps to give to workers internationally recognized worker rights. Prohibits the President from designating as articles eligible for duty-free treatment footwear, handbags, luggage, flat goods, work gloves, and leather wearing apparel which were not eligible articles on April 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, after consulting with the U.S. Trade Representative, to prescribe regulations governing rule of orgin requirements for the Generalized System of Preferences. Directs the President to report to Congress by January 4, 1988, on the application of the Generalized System of Preferences and on the actions taken by the President to withdraw, suspend, or limit the application of duty-free treatment to a country which has failed to take specified actions. Prohibits treating a country as a beneficiary developing country with respect to any article if the amount of exports of such article by such country to the United States exceeds a certain quantity or value. Declares that such prohibition shall not apply if a like or competitive article is not produced in the United States on January 3, 1985. Authorizes the President to disregard such prohibition if the appraised value of the total U.S. imports of such article does not exceed a specified amount. Directs the President to conduct a general review of eligible articles in the Generalized System of Preferences by January 4, 1987. Permits the President, under specified circumstances, to change the tariff treatment of a beneficiary developing country. Authorizes the President, after January 4, 1987, to waive changing the tariff treatment of a beneficiary developing country if the President: (1) receives the advice of the International Trade Commission on whether a U.S. industry is likely to be adversely affected by such waiver; (2) determines that such waiver is in the U.S. interest; and (3) publishes such determination and the reasons for it in the Federal Register. Limits such waiver authority. Lists factors to be considered in deciding whether to grant such a waiver. Permits redesignating a country as a beneficiary developing country if imports of eligible articles from such country do not exceed specified limits for two years. Extends the Generalized System of Preferences until July 4, 1993. Requires the President to report on the operation of the Generalized System of Preferences to Congress by January 4, 1990. Directs the President to report annually to Congress on the status of internationally recognized worker rights within each beneficiary developing country. Requires the appropriate U.S. agencies to assist beneficiary developing countries to develop and implement measures designed to assure that the agricultural sectors of their economies are not directed to export markets to the detriment of the production of food stuffs for their citizenry. Title VI: Trade Law Reform - Provides that, for purposes of this title, amendments to the Act refer to amendments to the Act of 1930. Amends the Act to state that: (1) the sale (or likelihood of sale) of certain imported merchandise is subject to the imposition of countervailing and antidumping duties; and (2) specified references to the sale of foreign merchandise includes leasing arrangements of such merchandise. Permits the administering authority to make a preliminary determination on the basis of the record then available as to whether a subsidy is being provided with respect to merchandise which is the subject of a countervailing duty investigation, provided a written waiver of verification of information is received by such authority. Provides that a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation may be terminated by the administering authority if such investigation was initiated by such administering authority. Prohibits the administering authority from terminating a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation by accepting, from the country in which the subsidy practice is alleged to occur, an agreement to limit the volume of imports into the United States of the merchandise being investigated unless such administering authority is satisfied that termination on the basis of such agreement is in the public interest. Specifies various factors and prior consultations that the administering authority shall take into account when making such decision regarding the public interest. Prohibits the termination of such investigation before a preliminary determination that the imported merchandise is being sold, or is likely to be sold, at less than fair market value. Eliminates as a basis for the suspension of a countervailing duty investigation by the administering authority, the offsetting of subsidies by exporters who import subsidized merchandise into the United States. Authorizes the administering authority to suspend a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation if the country in which the subsidy practice occurs agrees, or exporters of subsidized merchandise agree, to cease exports of such merchandise to the United States on the date on which the investigation is suspended. (Current law provides that exporters must agree to cease such exports of merchandise to the United States within six months after the date on which the investigation is suspended.) Requires the administering authority with respect to quantitative restriction agreements to eliminate the injurious effects of subsidized exports to the United States, to take into account specified factors as they apply to the proposed suspension of a countervailing duty investigation and such agreement, after consulting with the appropriate consuming industries, producers and workers. Provides that if such administering authority determines that such an agreement accepted under the Act is being, or has been violated or no longer meets the requirements under such Act then on the date of publication of its determination it shall, if it considers the violation to be intentional, notify the Commissioner of Customs. Permits the administering authority to terminate a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation initiated by it. Provides for an affirmative final determination in critical circumstances cases with respect to subsidies having been provided to merchandise that is the subject of a countervailing and antidumping duty investigation even though the administering authority's preliminary determination as to such subsidies was negative. Sets forth specified actions the administering authority must take if it makes an affirmative preliminary determination. Permits the administering authority, under certain conditions, to extend the deadline for a final determination in a countervailing duty investigation to the date of its final determination in an antidumping duty investigation if the antidumping duty investigation was initiated simultaneously with the countervailing duty investigation. Requires that a countervailing duty order shall presumptively apply to all merchandise of the class or kind which have been determined to materially injure U.S. industries and which are exported from the country being investigated, except that differing duties may be imposed if the administering authority determines that there is a significant differential between companies receiving subsidy benefits or if a State-owned enterprise is involved. Prohibits a customs officer, with respect to all entries, or withdrawals from warehouse, for consumption of merchandise subject to a countervailing duty order, from delivering merchandise of a class or kind to the person who imported it unless that importer complies with specified information requirements. Permits the administering authority to establish a monitoring program with respect to imports of a class or kind of merchandise from an additional supplier country (a country in which no antidumping investigation is pending or antidumping duty order is in effect with respect to such merchandise) if: (1) more than one antidumping order is in effect with respect to such merchandise; (2) there is reason by the administering authority to suspect an extraordinary pattern of persistent injurious dumping from one or more additional supplier countries; and (3) in the judgment of the administering authority such extraordinary pattern is causing a serious commercial problem for the domestic industry. Requires such administering authority to annually review the amount of duty imposed by a countervailing or antidumping duty order, or a notice of the suspension of an investigation if a request for such review has been received by such authority. Provides for the review, other than a quantitative restriction agreement, of agreements to eliminate foreign subsidies on exports to the United States. Provides that the party seeking revocation of an antidumping order shall have the burden of persuasion with respect to whether there are changed circumstances sufficient to warrant revocation of such antidumping order. Prohibits the administering authority from revoking, in whole or in part, a countervailing duty order or terminating a suspended investigation on the basis of any export taxes, duties, or other charges levied on the export of merchandise to the United States that are intended to offset the subsidy received. Requires the President, with respect to quantitative restriction agreements to suspend an antidumping duty investigation, to enter into consultations within 90 days after the administering authority accepts such agreement with the government that is a party to such agreement in order to: (1) eliminate the subsidy or dumping practice; or (2) reduce the net subsidy or dumping margin to a level that eliminates the injurious effect of exports to the United States of the merchandise. Prohibits such administering authority from modifying an agreement which results from such negotiations. Provides, under specified circumstances, that such consultations shall not apply to quantitative restriction agreement cases. Requires such administering authority to review affirmative determinations made by it and the International Trade Commission (ITC) with regard to: (1) subsidies being provided with respect to merchandise subject to a quantitative restriction agreement; and (2) imports of merchandise subject to such agreement, upon such agreement's termination, materially injuring or threatening material injury to an industry in the United States, or materially retarding the establishment of such industry. Requires such determinations to: (1) be made under such procedures as the administering authority and the Commission shall prescribe; (2) be treated as final determinations; and (3) provide, upon request of an interested party, a hearing in accordance with specified procedures. Sets forth specified actions the administering authority must take for affirmative determinations. Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to provide that a negative determination by the ITC with respect to quantitative restriction agreements shall not be based, in whole or in part, on any export taxes, duties, or other charges levied on the export of merchandise to the United States that are intended to offset the subsidy received. Amends the Act to provide that the term "industry", in the case of wine and grape products subject to an antidumpng investigation, shall also mean the domestic producers of the principal raw agricultural product (determined on either a volume or value basis) which is included in the like domestic product, if those producers allege material injury, or threat of material injury, as a result of imports of such wine and grape products. Requires the ITC, in making determinations under specified sections of the Act as to the volume and consequent impact of a possible material injury, to cumulatively assess the effect of imports from two or more countries of like products subject to investigation if such imports compete with each other and with like products of the domestic industry in the United States. Requires the ITC to consider specified factors with respect to its determination of the threat of material injury to a U.S. industry by reason of imports (or sales for importation) of any merchandise. Requires such determination to be made on the basis of real evidence and imminent injury. Includes in the term "interested party" an association, a majority of whose members is composed of specified interested parties with respect to a like product. Changes the term "usual wholesale quantities" to "usual commercial quantities." Amends specified Federal law with respect to the Court of International Trade procedure to include in the term "interested party" an association composed of specified interested parties with respect to a like product. Amends the Act to define "upstream subsidy" as any subsidy, as described in the Act, which: (1) is paid or bestowed by a foreign country upon a product which is used to manufacture merchandise which is already under investigation; (2) results in a price for such product that is lower than its available price in such country; and (3) has a significant effect on the cost of manufacturing or producing such merchandise. Requires, in administering such definition, that an association of two or more foreign countries, political subdivisions, dependent territories, or possessions of foreign countries organized into a customs union outside of the United States shall be treated as one country if such subsidy is provided by the customs union. Requires the administering authority to decide that a competitive benefit has been bestowed when the price for the input product for such use is lower than the price that the manufacturer or producer of merchandise which is the subject of a countervailing duty proceeding would otherwise pay for the product in obtaining it from another seller in an armslenght transaction. Requires the administering authority to adjust the price of merchandise under investigation that is found to be upstream subsidized by the country that produced it. Requires the administering authority to include such upstream subsidy in any countervailing duty that is imposed on such merchandise that has been found to have been bestowed a subsidy. Includes a reseller's price for purposes of determining the purchase price of merchandise under the Act. Provides that the foreign market value of imported merchandise shall be the price at the time such merchandise is first sold within the United States by the person for whom (or for whose account) the merchandise is imported to any other person who is not specifically described under the Act with respect to such person. Provides that an intermediate country shall be treated, for purposes of the Act, as the country from which the merchandise was exported. Requires both the administering authority and the ITC, upon the request of any party to a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation, to hold a hearing before making a final determination with respect to: (1) subsidies being provided with regard to merchandise subject to a quantitative restriction agreement; and (2) such merchandise being sold in the United States at less than fair value. Provides an exemption for required hearings by the ITC upon request and before making an injury determination in countervailing or antidumping duty investigations. Provides for subsidy practices discovered by the administering authority during a countervailing duty proceeding. Requires the administering authority to verify information relied upon in making: (1) a revocation of a countervailing duty order or an antidumping duty order; and (2) annual reviews and determinations with respect to the amount of duty imposed by a countervailing or antidumping duty order, or a notice of the suspension of an investigation if such verification is requested and no verification was made under this provision during the two preceding reviews and determinations under that section of the same order, finding, or notice. Sets forth specified procedures the administering authority and the ITC must take with respect to information presented or discussed at an ex parte meeting. Permits an officer or employee of the U.S. Customs Service who is involved in conducting an investigation regarding fraud under the Act to receive confidential information that has been submitted to the administering authority or the ITC with respect to such investigation. Requires the administering authority and the ITC to require that information for which confidential treatment is requested be accompanied by other specified information. Allows the administering authority, for purposes of determining U.S. or foreign prices, to use averaging or recognized sampling techniques. Gives the administering authority the sole authority to select such techniques. Requires interest to be paid on overpayments and underpayments of amounts deposited on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on and after: (1) the date of publication of a countervailing or antidumping duty order; or (2) the date of a finding under the Antidumping Act, 1921. Provides the interest rate to be that rate as established by a specified section of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Requires countervailing and antidumping duties imposed by this Act to be treated as any other customs duties for purposes of any law relating to the drawback of customs duties. Sets forth the procedure for judicial review of administering authority and ITC determinations. Adds to those determinations which are reviewable in the U.S. Court of International Trade the determination as to whether a particular type of imported merchandise is within the class of such merchandise described in an antidumping or countervailing duty order. Sets forth the order of civil action cases before the U.S. Court of International Trade. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to study the practices that are applied in making adjustments to purchase prices, exporter's sales prices, foreign market value, and constructed value in determining antidumping duties. Sets forth what shall be included in such study. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the U.S. trade Representative, and the Comptroller General of the United States to undertake and submit to Congress not later than June 1, 1985, a comprehensive study of the problem of foreign industrial targeting and of the need to amend the U.S. trade laws to provide effective remedies for domestic industries against the adverse effects of such targeting. Sets forth what shall be included in such study. Title VII: Authorization of Appropriations for Customs and Trade Agencies - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for the U.S. International Trade Commission, including a specified amount for reception and entertainment expenses. Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for the U.S. Customs Service. Earmarks specified amounts for the air interdiction program of the Customs Service and for the "Operation EXODUS" program. Limits the amount of overtime pay which a Customs Service employee may receive. Authorizes the Commissioner of Customs to waive that limit. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Earmarks a specified amount for entertainment and representation expenses. Title VIII: Enforcement Authority for the National Policy for the Steel Industry - Steel Import Stabilization Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should implement the national policy for the steel industry in a manner that restores the foreign share of the U.S. market for carbon and alloy steel products to approximately 17 percent; (2) the national policy for the steel industry should not be implemented in a manner contrary to the antitrust laws; and (3) if the national policy for the steel industry does not produce satisfactory results within a reasonable time, the Congress will consider taking legislative actions to stablize conditions in the domestic market for steel and iron ore products. Defines the national policy for the steel industry as those actions and elements described in Executive Communication 4046, dated September 18, 1984. Authorizes the President, subject to specified conditions, to carry out such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to enforce the quantitative limitations and restrictions, including export measures required by a foreign government or customs union, contained in each bilateral arrangement (an arrangement made to implement the national policy for the steel industry). Directs the President, in applying such authority, to cover all categories of carbon and steel alloy products, to avoid distortions among those categories, and to include all exporting countries and customs unions from which there are or have been surges in exports of those products to the United States. Terminates the authority of the President to carry out such actions: (1) five years after the effective date of this Act; or (2) at the close of the first, second, third, or fourth anniversary of such date unless the President submits a specified affirmative annual determination before each such anniversary to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. Defines an affirmative annual determination as a determination by the President that during the past year the steel industry has: (1) committed substantially all of its net cash flow from carbon and alloy steel product operations for purposes of reinvestment in, and modernization of, that industry; and (2) taken sufficient action to maintain its international competitiveness. Prohibits the President from finding compliance with the reinvestment and modernization requirement unless: (1) each major company with significant reinvestment or modernization needs has committed all of its net cash flow (except that required for retraining) from carbon and alloy steel product operations during the applicable 12-month period to meet those needs; and (2) each major company that has or reasonably anticipates significant unemployment in such operations has committed for the applicable 12 - month period not less than one percent of such net cash flow to the retraining of workers, including those laid off at any time since January 1, 1982. Directs the President in making such determination to take into account such information as may be available from the U.S. International Trade Commission and other appropriate sources. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to Congress, within six months of the effective date of this Act, a plan for assisting workers in communities that are adversely affected by imports of carbon and alloy steel products. Title IX: Wine Trade - Wine Equity and Export Expansion Act of 1984 - Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to designate as a major wine trading country each foreign country or group of foreign countries represented as an economic union that: (1) is a potential significant market for U.S. wine; and (2) maintains tariff barriers or nontariff barriers to (or other distortions of) trade in U.S. wine. Sets forth factors to be considered in determining whether to designate a country as a major wine trading country. Requires the President to direct the U.S. Trade Representative to enter into consultations with each major wine trading country to seek a reduction or elimination of that country's tariff barriers and nontariff barriers to (or other distortions of) trade in U.S. wine. Directs the President to notify the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee on specified efforts to expand opportunities in each major wine trading country for exports of U.S. wine. Requires each such notification (consisting of separate reports for each major wine trading country) to include: (1) a description of each act, policy, and practice in that country that constitutes a tariff or nontariff barrier to (or other distortion of) trade in U.S. wine; (2) an assessment of whether such act, policy, or practice is subject to international agreements; (3) information with respect to any action taken or proposed to eliminate or reduce each such act, policy, or practice; (4) an explanation if such action was not taken; and (5) recommendations to the Congress of any additional legislative authority or other action to obtain the elimination or reduction of foreign tariff barriers or nontariff barriers to trade in U.S. wine. Directs the President to take all appropriate actions under the Trade Act of 1974 to enforce the rights of the United States under a trade agreement or to obtain the elimination of an act, policy, or practice of a major wine trading country if the President has reason to believe that such act, policy, or practice constitutes a tariff barrier or nontariff barrier to (or other distortion of) trade in U.S. wine and: (1) is inconsistent with the provisions of, or otherwise denies benefits to the United States under, any trade agreement; or (2) is unjustifiable, unreasonable, or discriminatory and burdens or restricts U.S commerce. Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to consult with the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee and with representatives of the U.S. wine and grape products industries: (1) before identifying tariff and nontariff barriers to the U.S. wine trade and before designating major wine trading countries; (2) in developing the reports to such Committees; and (3) for purposes of determining whether action by the President is appropriate under the Trade Act of 1974. Encourages the President to: (1) use, for FY 1985, certain authority under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to make available sufficient funds to initiate an export promotion program for U.S. wine; and (2) request, for each subsequent fiscal year, an appropriation for such a wine export promotion program.
HR 3398 - 98Omnibus Tariff and Trade Act of 1984
Became Public Law No: 98-573.
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(House agreed to Senate amendment with an amendment) Tariff and Trade Act of 1984 - Title I: Tariff Schedules Amendments - Subtitle A: Reference to Tariff Schedules - Declares that amendments to the Schedules refer to the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Subtitle B: Permanent Changes in Tariff Treatment - Amends the Schedules to: (1) reduce the duty from 25 percent ad valorem to five percent ad valorem on fresh asparagus entered during the period from September 15 through November 15, in any year; (2) impose a one-tenth of one cent duty on apple and pear juice; (3) provide equal classification and equal duty rates for orange and other citrus juices; (4) treat plywoods with tongued, grooved, lapped, or worked edges as plywood for duty treatment purposes; (5) revise the definition of "plexiform filaments" to include fibrillated or fibrillating strips of any dimension which consists, after fibrillation in the case of strips, of a network or plexus of fine fibers and which are suitable for the manufacture of textiles; (6) revise the definition of "strips" to embrace non-fibrillated or non-fibrillating strips (part 1 schedule 3 Subpart E Textile Fibers and Textile Products); (7) provide that articles of apparel, except suits, pajamas and other nightwear, playsuits, washsuits, judo, karate and other martial arts uniforms, swimwear, and infants' sets up to and including 24 months of age, are to be separately classified even if two or more such articles are imported together and designed to be sold together at retail; (8) provide that napthas (whether or not catalytic napthas) are not classifiable under benzenoid chemicals and products (part 1 schedule 4); (9) define "motor fuel blending stock" as any product derived primarily from petroleum, shale oil, or natural gas, except napthas, whether or not containing additives, which is chiefly used for direct blending in the manufacture of motor fuel; (10) impose a duty upon motor fuel blending stock; (11) lower the duty on imported gut used in the manufacture of surgical sutures; and (12) make certain technical changes so that the Schedules conform with the Customs Convention on Containers, 1972. Extends duty-free treatment to: (1) imports of chipper knife steel; (2) previously imported articles upon which a duty was paid if reimported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition while abroad, after having been imported under lease or similar agreement (currently, having been exported under lease to a foreign manufacturer), and reimported by or for the account of the person who imported it into, and exported it from, the United States; (3) the rendering of geophysical or contracting services in connection with the exploration or extraction of natural resources; (4) the entry of scrolls or tablets of wood or paper which are imported for use in public or private religious observances; and (5) warp knitting machines. Provides that any fabric that contains nontransparent rubber or plastics shall be regarded not as a textile material but as being wholly rubber or plastic. Defines, for duty purposes, the differences between dress and work gloves. Provides uniform tariff treatment of pet toys. Subtitle C: Temporary Changes in Tariff Treatment - Reduces through December 31, 1987, the duty on certain brussels sprouts that are not reduced in size and certain brussels sprouts that are reduced in size. Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) 4-chloro-3-methylphenol through September 30, 1987; (2) uncompounded allyl resins through September 30, 1986; (3) tartaric acid and tartaric chemicals through June 30, 1988; (4) natural graphite through December 31, 1987; (5) certain forms of zinc through June 30, 1989; and (6) certain clock radios through September 30, 1986. Suspends the duty on: (1) B-naphtol through September 30, 1987; (2) 3,3-diaminobenzidine through September 30, 1987; (3) 6-amino-1-naphthol-3-sulfonic acid through September 30, 1987; (4) diphenyl guanidine and di-ortho-tolyl guanidine through September 30, 1987; (5) 2-(4-aminophenyl)-6-methylbenzothiazole-7-sulfonic acid through September 30, 1987; (6) a certain chemical intermediate, (6R,7R)- 7-(R)-2-amino-2-phenylacetamido-3-methyl-8-oxo-5-thia- 1-azabicyclo 4. 2. 0 oct-2-ene-2-carboxylic acid disolvate through September 30, 1987; (7) acetylsulfaguanidine through September 30, 1987; (8) mixtures of potassium 1-(p-chlorophenyl) -1, 4- diydro -6-methyl-4-oxopyridozine-3-carboxylate (fenridazon-potassium) and formulation adjuvants through September 30, 1987; (9) sulfamthazine through September 30, 1987; (10) sulfaguanidine through September 30, 1987; (11) terfenadine through September 30, 1987; (12) sulfathiazole through September 30, 1987; (13) sulfaquinoxaline and sulfanilamide through September 30, 1987; (14) dicyclomine hydrochloride and mepenzolate bromide through September 30, 1987; (15) amiodarone through September 30, 1987; (16) desipramine hydrochloride through September 30, 1987; (17) clomiphene citrate through September 30, 1987; (18) materials and compounds containing more than 19 percent but less than 85 percent of yttrium oxide equivalent through June 30, 1988; (19) mixtures of 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, magnesium chloride and magnesium nitrate through September 30, 1987; (20) nicotine resin complex through September 30, 1987; (21) rifampin through September 30, 1987; (22) lactulose through September 30, 1987; (23) iron dextran complex through September 30, 1987; (24) industrial diamonds of tool and drill blanks through September 30, 1987; (25) lace-braiding machines and parts through September 30, 1987; (26) fabric weaving machines through September 30, 1987; and (27) metal frames for hand-held umbrellas through September 30, 1985. Provides duty-free treatment on magnetron tubes used in stoves and ranges through December 31, 1986. Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) crude feathers and down through June 30, 1987: (2) certain textile fabrics used in the manufacture of hovercraft skirts through June 30, 1986; and (3) flat knitting machines through June 30, 1988. Reduces the duty on: (1) certain disposable surgical drapes and sterile gowns through January 1, 1989; (2) caffein through December 31, 1985; and (3) certain watch crystals for three years (including an even lower rate of duty on such crystals that are products of a least developed developing country). Suspends, through June 30, 1986, the duty on: (1) 4, 4-Bis (a,a-dimethylbenzyl) diphenylamine; (2) flecainide acetate; and (3) MXDA (meta-Xylene-Diamine) and 1,3-BAC (a,3-Bis(aminomethyl)-cyclohezane). Extends the tariff reduction for certain unwrought lead through June 30, 1988. Extends the duty on canned corned beef through October 29, 1989. Subtitle D: Technical Amendments - Makes various technical amendments to the Schedules. Subtitle E: Effective Dates - Provides the effective dates for the amendments made by this title. Title II: Customs Amendments - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the refund ("drawback") of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported or domestic merchandise that is fungible and is, within three years, exported or destroyed under Customs supervision and is: (1) not used within the United States; (2) in the possession of the party claiming such drawback; and (3) in the same condition at the time of such exportation or destruction as was the imported merchandise at the time of its importation. Provides for the refund of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported packaging material if such material is exported within three years without any changes in its conditions or is destroyed under Customs supervision and is not used within the United States before such exportation or destruction. Exempts vessels designed and used primarily for transporting passengers or property from the duty on equipment and repairs made in a foreign country on a U.S. flag vessel unless the vessel left the United States for the sole purpose of obtaining such equipment or repairs. Provides that customs duties will be due on the date of liquidation or reliquidation. Provides that if payment of the duties is not made within 30 days of such date, then such payment will be considered delinquent and bear interest from the date of liquidation or reliquidation. Provides a refund on any overpayment of duty and interest thereon if an entry is reliquidated as a result of: (1) a protest being filed; (2) a clerical error; or (3) a court order. Increases from $250 to $1,250 the value of imported goods eligible for informal entry. Provides that such an increase does not apply to specified articles of the Schedules or other articles for which formal entry is required without regard to value. Provides that if a State or local authority (incident to its jurisdiction over an airport, or other exit point facility) requires its approval with respect to the operation of a duty-free sales enterprise under which merchandise is delivered to such facility for exportation, then merchandise incident to such operation may not be withdrawn from a bonded warehouse and transferred to such facility unless the operator of such duty-free sales enterprise demonstrates to the Secretary of the Treasury that the required approval has been obtained. Prohibits an individual (other than solely for that person) or corporation from conducting customs business (activities involving transactions with the Customs Service concerning the entry and payment of duties on imported merchandise) unless a valid customs brokers license and permit has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury to such individual or corporation. Permits the granting of such license to a corporation provided at least one officer of such corporation holds a customs brokers license. (Currently, at least two officers of a corporation must hold a license in order for the corporation to conduct customs business.) Provides for the revocation or suspension of such license and permit, or the imposition of a monetary penalty, for a customs broker who: (1) fails to have such a license and permit while transacting customs business; (2) makes false statements on an application for such license or permit, or on a report filed with the Customs Service; (3) has been convicted of certain felonies or misdemeanors after the filing of an application for such license; (4) is licensed as a corporation and fails to have at least one officer validly licensed for a continuous period of 120 days (currently, it is for a continuous 60 day period); or (5) fails to employ for the same period at least one licensed individual within the district in which a permit was issued. Permits a broker to appeal any decision by the Secretary to deny, revoke, or suspend such broker's license or permit, or to impose a monetary penalty upon him or her, by filing a petition in the Court of International Trade. Permits the Secretary to prescribe regulations relating to the issuance of licenses or permits to customs brokers. Permits the suspension or revocation of a brokers license if a customs broker triennial report is not filed with the Secretary. Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Court of International Trade to review any decision of the Secretary to: (1) deny an individual a license or permit; (2) revoke a license due to operation of law; or (3) impose a monetary penalty due to a violation under the Act. Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Court of International Trade on civil action cases which arise out of an import transaction and which are commenced by the United States to recover a monetary penalty due to a violation under the Act. Permits an individual whose license or permit has been denied or revoked due to operation of law to commence an action for review in the Court of International Trade. Provides for the commencement of such actions in cases where a monetary penalty has been imposed. Prohibits the commencement of an action unless it is commenced within 60 days after the entry of a decision relating to: (1) the denial or revocation of a license or permit; or (2) the imposition of a monetary penalty. Provides that the scope of review for decisions by the Secretary to suspend or revoke a broker's license and permit shall be made on the basis of the record before the court in accordance with the provisions of this title, except for the administrative hearing procedure on the revocation or suspension of a license or permit which shall be made in accordance with 5 USC 706. Provides that with respect to the collection or assessment of a monetary penalty imposed under the Act, the Court of International Trade may not render a judgment in a greater amount than that sought in the initial pleading of the United States. Prohibits a customs officer from permitting the delivery of imported merchandise from a public store or bonded warehouse until proof is produced showing that any customs broker's lien has been satisfied or discharged. Authorizes the Secretary to provide a refund in cases where excess duties have been paid prior to the liquidation of an entry because of clerical error. Makes available certain information contained in the manifests of cargo vessesls arriving in the United States. Provides that such information shall not be made available to the public if: (1) such disclosure would cause personal injury or property damage; or (2) such information must be kept secret for reasons of national defense or foreign policy. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish procedure to provide access to such manifests. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to exempt from the entry requirements of the Act those passenger vessels on a round trip from the U.S. Virgin Islands and licensed yachts or undocumented American pleasure vessels not engaged in trade. Allows such exemption only if such vessels do not violate U.S. customs laws and have not visited any hovering vessel. Requires the master of the vessel to report to appropriate customs officials any article required by law to be entered. Provides that the same requirements be applied with respect to vessels returning from the British Virgin Islands. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide civil penalties for persons who import, export, or attempt to import or export: (1) any stolen self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part; or (2) a self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part knowing that its identification number has been altered. Requires the forfeiture of any such vehicle or vehicle part. Requires that persons who attempt to export a used self-propelled vehicle must present to the appropriate customs officer the vehicle and a document describing such vehicle. States that customs officers may cooperate or exchange information (either before or after exportation or importation) with respect to motor vehicles, off-highway mobile equipment, vessels, or aircraft with any Federal, State, local, and foreign governmental authorities engaged in theft prevention. Prohibits any final rule which revises the Customs bond requirements from taking effect during the 90 days of continuous session of Congress following the publication of notice of the final rule in the Federal Register. Requires the Commissioner of Customs, on the day the notice of the final rule is published in the Federal Register, to submit to specified congressional committees a report containing: (1) an analysis of the revenue impact of the rule; (2) the estimated cost benefit of the rule to the Customs Service and to importers; and (3) a justification of the revisions to be affected by the rule. Comprehensive Drug Penalty Act of 1984 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to subject to forfeiture all land (or a portion thereof) and buildings used for holding or storing or cultivating controlled substances or materials used to manufacture such substances except if done without the knowledge or consent of the owner. Provides that a proceeding for forfeiture may be brought in the judicial district in which the defendant owning such property is found or in the judicial district in which the criminal prosecution is brought. Establishes within the Treasury a revolving fund known as the Department of Justice Forfeiture Fund. Allows the fund to be used for the payment of rewards for information that results in a forfeiture and for the expenses incurred in a forfeiture action. Requires deposit in this fund of proceeds and profits forfeited as a result of drug violations. Authorizes appropriations from the fund for FY 1984 through 1988. Sets the maximum reward for information at $250,000. Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to increase the maximum authorized fines for certain drug offenses. Permits imposition of an alternative fine up to twice the gross gain derived from the offense. Provides judicial procedures for seizure of property subject to criminal forfeiture. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the seizure of vessels, aircraft, merchandise, or baggage valued at $100,000 or less except in the case of conveyances used to import, export or transport controlled substances, for which there is no limit to the value of items that may be seized property. Requires written notice of such seizure to all interested parties. Increases the surety bond for any person claiming an interest in the seized property of up to $2,500, or ten percent of the value of the claimed property, whichever is less. Establishes in the Treasury the Customs Forfeiture Fund to pay for maintenance of forfeited property, awards to informants, liens, mortgages, and the purchase of evidence of any violation. Requires the deposit in such fund of all proceeds from the sale and disposition of property forfeited under customs law. Allows transfer of the property for forfeiture under State law. Increases from $50,000 to $250,000 the award of compensation given to informers for information leading to forfeiture. Grants customs officers arrest authority and the right to carry firearms. Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code dealing with customs officers' law enforcement authority to conform to this title. Sets forth effective dates. Title III: Miscellaneous Trade Amendments - Authorizes the President to provide both duty-free treatment under column 1 and modifications in the descriptions of specified articles of the Schedules that are certified for use in civil aircraft. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to grant duty-free entry to articles required for the installation and operation of a joint U.S.-West German telescope project in Arizona. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide a refund of any duty paid on organs imported for the use by Trinity Cathedral of Cleveland, Ohio during 1973 through 1978. Requires the Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service to establish the Columbia-Snake Customs District which includes Oregon, and specified counties of the States of Idaho and Washington. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should continue to oppose: (1) the imposition of restrictions on European Community (EC) imports of nongrain feed ingredients and corn gluten and should support the current duty-free binding on such products; and (2) EC proposals which violate the duty-free binding on soybeans and soybean products under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and reaffirm the United States' position that the imposition of a consumption tax by EC on vegetable fats and oils would represent a restraint of trade. States that if EC action is taken to inhibit the importation of such products, then the United States should restrict EC imports by the same proportion of reduced U.S. export products. Title IV: United States-Israel Free Trade Area - United States-Israel Free Trade Area Act - Authorizes the President to enter into a trade agreement with Israel providing for: (1) the continuance of existing duty free treatment of certain Israeli articles; and (2) the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of nontariff barriers to (and other distortions of) trade between the United States and Israel. Authorizes the President to proclaim such continuances and modifications of tariff treatment of and import restrictions on such articles as necessary to carry out the trade agreement. Sets forth conditions for finding an Israeli article eligible for duty-free treatment under this title. Authorizes the President to suspend duty- free treatment for such Israeli articles and to proclaim a duty rate for such articles if such action is proclaimed under the import relief provision of the Trade Act of 1974 or under the national security provision of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Requires the U. S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to state in any report to the President on the need for import relief from a duty-free article under the Trade Act of 1974 whether the report applies to such an article when imported from Israel. Prohibits making a proclamation which provides solely for a suspension of duty-free treatment unless the ITC, in addition to making an affirmative determination under the Trade Act of 1974, determines that the serious injury or threat of serious injury substantially caused by imports results from the duty-free treatment provided to imports from Israel. Provides that import relief proclamations issued under the Trade Act of 1974 which effect articles covered by this title shall remain in effect until modified or terminated. Authorizes the President to modify or terminate such import relief provisions. Authorizes filing a petition for emergency import relief with the Secretary of Agriculture regarding imports of persihable products from Israel which are given duty free treatment under this title if a petition for import relief affecting such products is filed with the ITC. Sets forth a procedure for dealing with such emergency import relief petitions. Prohibits the duty-free treatment granted under this title to Israeli imports from affecting the application of laws providing relief from injury caused by import competition or by unfair import trade practices. Prohibits extending a trade benefit to any country by reason of the extension of a trade benefit to Israel under this title. Title V: Generalized System of Preferences Renewal - Generalized System of Preferences Renewal Act of 1984 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the President, in determining whether to provide duty-free treatment for an eligible article from a beneficiary developing country, to consider: (1) the effect such action will have on furthering the economic development of such countries through the expansion of their exports; and (2) the extent of the beneficiary developing country's competitiveness with respect to eligible articles. Provides that Hungary may be designated as a beneficiary developing country. Prohibits the President from designating as a beneficiary developing country any country that has not taken or is not taking steps to afford internationally recognized worker rights to workers in that country (including any designated zone in that country). Defines "internationally recognized worker rights." Directs the President, in determining whether to designate a country a beneficiary developing country, to consider: (1) the extent to which such country is providing the means for foreign nationals to exercise exclusive rights in intellectual property, including a patent, trademark, and copyright rights; (2) the extent to which such country has taken action to reduce trade distorting investment practices and policies and to reduce or eliminate barriers to trade in services; and (3) whether such country has taken or is taking steps to afford to workers in that country internationally recognized worker rights. Prohibits the President from designating as articles eligible for duty-free treatment footwear, handbags, luggage, flat goods, work gloves, and leather wearing apparel which were not eligible articles on April 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, after consulting with the U.S. Trade Representative, to prescribe regulations governing rule of orgin requirements for the Generalized System of Preferences. Directs the President to report to Congress by January 4, 1987 on the application of the Generalized System of Preferences and on the actions taken by the President to withdraw, suspend, or limit the application of duty-free treatment to a country which has failed to take specified actions. Prohibits treating a country as a beneficiary developing country with respect to any article if the amount of exports of such article by such country to the United States exceeds a certain quantity or value. Declares that such prohibition shall not apply if a like or competitive article is not produced in the United States on January 3, 1985. Authorizes the President to disregard such prohibition if the appraised value of the total U.S. imports of such article does not exceed a specified amount. Directs the President to conduct a general review of eligible articles in the Generalized System of Preferences by January 4, 1986. Provides for changing the tariff treatment of a beneficiary developing country if the President determines: (1) that it has demonstrated a sufficient degree of competitiveness; (2) that it has a per capita gross national product of $5,000 or more or has increased its exports to the United States by a specified percentage; or (3) that it has a per capita gross national product of $9,000 or more. Authorizes the President, after January 4, 1986, to waive changing the tariff treatment of a beneficiary developing country if the President: (1) receives the advice of the International Trade Commission on whether a U.S. industry is likely to be adversely affected by such waiver; (2) determines that such waiver is in the U.S. interest; and (3) publishes such determination and the reasons for it in the Federal Register. Limits such waiver authority. Lists factors to be considered in deciding whether to grant such a waiver. Permits redesignating a country as a beneficiary developing country if imports of eligible articles from such country do not exceed specified limits for two years. Extends the Generalized System of Preferences until January 3, 1990. Requires the President to report on the operation of the Generalized System of Preferences to Congress by January 4, 1990. Directs the President to report annually to Congress on the status of internationally recognized worker rights within each beneficiary developing country. Requires the appropriate U.S. agencies to assist beneficiary developing countries to develop and implement measures designed to assure that the agricultural sectors of their economies are not directed to expert markets to the detriment of the production of food stuffs for their citizenry. Title VI: Small Business Trade Assistance and Trade Monitoring - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to establish in the International Trade Commission (ITC) a Trade Remedy Assistance Office to provide the public, upon request, information concerning: (1) remedies and benefits available under the trade laws; and (2) the petition and application procedures, and the appropriate filing dates, with respect to such remedies and benefits. Requires agencies administering a trade law to provide technical assistance to small businesses with regard to the filing of trade relief petitions. Requires the ITC to establish and implement a continuing program to monitor and analyze industrial plans and policies of foreign countries. Sets forth information requirements relating to the implementation of such program. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the U.S. Trade Representative, and the Comptroller General to submit to Congress, not later than June 1, 1985, a study of the problem of foreign industrial targeting and the need to amend the U.S. trade laws to provide remedies for domestic industries against the adverse effects of such targeting. Declares that amendments to the Act refer to amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act). Subtitle A: Amendments to Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty Laws - Amends the Act to state that: (1) the sale (or likelihood of sale) of certain imported merchandise is subject to the imposition of countervailing duties; and (2) specified references to the sale of foreign merchandise includes leasing arrangements of such merchandise. Provides that a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation may be terminated by the administering authority if such investigation was initiated by such administering authority. Prohibits the administering authority from terminating a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation by accepting, from the country in which the subsidy practice is alleged to occur, an agreement to limit the volume of imports into the United States of the merchandise being investigated unless such administering authority is satisfied that termination on the basis of such agreement is in the public interest. Specifies various factors and prior consultations that the administering authority shall take into account when making such decision regarding the public interest. Prohibits the termination of such investigation before a preliminary determination that the imported merchandise is being sold, or is likely to be sold, at less than fair market value. Eliminates as a basis for the suspension of a countervailing duty investigation by the administering authority, the offsetting of subsidies by exporters who import subsidized merchandise into the United States. Authorizes the administering authority to suspend a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation if the country in which the subsidy practice occurs agrees, or exporters of subsidized merchandise agree, to cease exports of such merchandise to the United States on the date on which the investigation is suspended. (Current law provides that exporters must agree to cease such exports of merchandise to the United States within six months after the date on which the investigation is suspended.) Requires the administering authority with respect to quantitative restriction agreements to eliminate the injurious effects of subsidized exports to the United States, to take into account specified factors as they apply to the proposed suspension of a countervailing duty investigation and such agreement, after consulting with the appropriate consuming industries, producers and workers. Provides that if such administering authority determines that such an agreement accepted under the Act is being, or has been violated or no longer meets the requirements under such Act then on the date of publication of its determination it shall, if it considers the violation to be intentional, notify the Commissioner of Customs. Requires such administering authority to annually review the amount of duty imposed by a countervailing or antidumping duty order, or a notice of the suspension of an investigation if a request for such review has been received by such authority. Provides for the review, other than a quantitative restriction agreement, of agreements to eliminate foreign subsidies on exports to the United States. Requires the President, with respect to quantitative restriction agreements to suspend an antidumping duty investigation, to enter into negotiations within 90 days after the administering authority accepts such agreement with the government that is a party to such agreement in order to: (1) eliminate the subsidy or dumping practice; or (2) reduce the net subsidy or dumping margin to a level that eliminates the injurious effect of exports to the United States of the merchandise. Prohibits such administering authority from modifying an agreement which results from such negotiations unless before the first anniversary of the date on which such administering authority accepts such agreement specified requirements are met. Provides that negotiations and possible modification of quantitative restriction agreements entered pursuant to this Act shall cease to apply to any such agreement suspending a countervailing duty investigation at such time as that agreement ceases to have force and effect because of a final negative determination in such investigation or because of a violation of an agreement to eliminate a foreign subsidy or the injurious effects of such subsidy. Requires such administering authority to review affirmative determinations made by it and the International Trade Commission (ITC) with regard to: (1) subsidies being provided with respect to merchandise subject to a quantitative restriction agreement; (2) such merchandise being sold in the United States at less than fair value; and (3) imports of merchandise subject to such agreement, upon such agreement's termination, materially injuring or threatening material injury to an industry in the United States, or materially retarding the establishment of such industry. Requires such determinations to: (1) be made on the record; (2) be treated as final determinations; and (3) provided, upon request of an interested party, a hearing in accordance with specified procedures. Includes in the definition of "subsidy" any export subsidy, specified domestic subsidies, natural resource subsidy, and upstream subsidy as determined under the provisions of this Act. Defines the term "natural resource subsidy". Sets forth the method of calculation for determining the level of a natural resource subsidy. Defines the term "fair market value" to mean the price that a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for a natural resource product in an arms-length transaction in the absence of government regulation. Requires the ITC, in making determinations under specified sections of the Act as to the volume and consequent impact of a possible material injury, to cumulatively assess the effect of imports from two or more countries of like products subject to investigation if such imports compete with each other and with like products of the domestic industry in the U.S. market. Requires the ITC to consider specified factors with respect to its determination of whether there is a threat of material injury to U.S. markets by subsidized exports entering the United States. Includes in the term "interested party" an association, a majority of whose members is composed of specified interested parties with respect to a like product. Defines an "upstream subsidy" as any action, as described in the Act, by a government that: (1) pays or bestows a subsidy upon merchandise under investigation that is manufactured in such country; (2) results in a price for such merchandise that is lower than its available price in such country; and (3) has a significant effect on the cost of manufacturing or producing such merchandise. Requires, in administering such definition, that an association of two or more foreign countries, political subdivisions, dependent territories, or possessions of foreign countries organized into a customs union outside of the United States shall be treated as one country. Requires the administering authority to adjust the price of merchandise under investigation that is found to be upstream subsidized by the country that produced it. Requires the administering authority to include in any countervailing duty or antidumping duty that is imposed on such merchandise an amount equal to the difference between the price generally available for such product in the country of manufacture and the lower price at which such product is sold to the United States, adjusted, if appropriate, for artificial depression. Defines "downstream dumping" as occurring when a product that is used in the manufacture of merchandise under investigation is purchased at a price that is below its foreign market value. Requires the administering authority, when calculating the amount of a countervailing or antidumping duty due to downstream dumping, to include an amount equal to the difference between the foreign market value of such product and the price at which such product was purchased below such value, and either: (1) the generally available price of such product in the country of manufacture; or (2) the price of such product that would pertain but for artificial depression. Limits the scope of inquiry into upstream and downstream subsidies by the administering authority. Includes in the term "party-at-interest" an association composed of members of labor organizations and trade associations who produce a like product in the United States. Requires both the administering authority and the ITC, upon the request of any party to a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation, to hold a hearing before making a final determination with respect to: (1) subsidies being provided with regard to merchandise subject to a quantitative restriction agreement; (2) such merchandise being sold in the United States at less than fair value; and (3) imports of merchandise subject to such agreement, upon such agreement's termination, materially injuring or threatening material injury to an industry in the United States, or materially retarding the establishment of such an industry. Provides an exemption for required hearings by the ITC upon request and before making an injury determination in countervailing or antidumping duty investigations. Requires the administering authority to verify information relied upon in making: (1) a revocation of a countervailing duty order or an antidumping duty order; and (2) annual reviews and determinations with respect to the amount of duty imposed by a countervailing or antidumping duty order, or a notice of the suspension of an investigation if such verification is requested and no verification was made under this provision during the two preceding reviews and determinations under that section of the same order, finding, or notice. Permits an officer or employee of the U.S. Customs Service who is involved in conducting an investigation regarding fraud under the Act to receive confidential information that has been submitted to the administering authority or the ITC with respect to such investigation. Requires the administering authority and the ITC with regard to information that has been requested to be kept confidential to provide that such confidential information be accompanied by specified summaries and statements. Allows the administering authority, for purposes of determining U.S. or foreign prices, to use averaging or recognized sampling techniques. Gives the administering authority the sole authority to select such techniques. Sets forth the procedure for judicial review of administering authority and ITC determinations. Adds to those determinations which are reviewable in the U.S. Court of International Trade the determination as to whether a particular type of imported merchandise is within the class of such merchandise described in a finding of dumping or in an antidumping or countervailing duty order. Sets forth the order of civil action cases before the U.S. Court of International Trade. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Includes within the meaning of the term "industry" for purposes of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of wine and grape products those domestic producers of the principal raw agricultural product which is included in the like domestic product if those producers allege material injury or threat of such injury from imports of wine and grape products. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to study the practices that are applied in making adjustments to purchase prices, exporter's sales prices, foreign market value, and constructed value in determining antidumping duties. Sets forth what shall be included in such study. Sets forth effective dates. Title VIII: Authorization of Appropriations for Customs and Trade Agencies - Amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for the U.S. International Trade Commission, including a specified amount for reception and entertainment expenses. Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for the U.S. Customs Service. Earmarks specified amounts for the air interdiction program of the Customs Service and for the "Operation EXODUS" program. Limits the amount of overtime pay which a Customs Service employee may receive. Authorizes the Commissioner of Customs to waive that limit. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Earmarks a specified amount for entertainment and representation expenses. Title IX: Enforcement Authority for the National Policy for the Steel Industry - Steel Import Stabilization Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should implement the national policy for the steel industry in a manner that restores the foreign share of the U.S. market for carbon and alloy steel products to approximately 17 percent; (2) the national policy for the steel industry should not be implemented in a manner contrary to the antitrust laws; and (3) if the national policy for the steel industry does not produce satisfactory results within a reasonable time, the Congress will consider taking legislative actions to stablize conditions in the domestic market for steel and iron ore products. Defines the national policy for the steel industry as those actions and elements described in Executive Communication 4046, dated September 18, 1984. Authorizes the President, subject to specified conditions, to carry out such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to enforce the quantitative limitations and restrictions, including export measures required by a foreign government or customs union, contained in each bilateral arrangement (an arrangement made to implement the national policy for the steel industry). Directs the President, in applying such authority, to cover all categories of carbon and steel alloy products, to avoid distortions among those categories, and to include all exporting countries and customs unions from which there are or have been surges in exports of those products to the United States. Terminates the authority of the President to carry out such actions: (1) five years after the effective date of this Act; or (2) at the close of the first, second, third, or fourth anniversary of such date unless the President submits a specified affirmative annual determination before each such anniversary to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. Defines an affirmative annual determination as a determination by the President that during the past year the steel industry has: (1) committed substantially all of its net cash flow from carbon and alloy steel product operations for purposes of reinvestment in, and modernization of, that industry; and (2) taken sufficient action to maintain its international competitiveness. Prohibits the President from finding compliance with the reinvestment and modernization requirement unless: (1) each major company with significant reinvestment or modernization needs has committed all of its net cash flow (except that required for retraining) from carbon and alloy steel product operations during the applicable 12-month period to meet those needs; and (2) each major company that has or reasonably anticipates significant unemployment in such operations has committed for the applicable 12 - month period not less than one percent of such net cash flow to the retraining of workers, including those laid off at any time since January 1, 1982. Directs the President in making such determination to take into account such information as may be available from the U.S. International Trade Commission and other appropriate sources. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to Congress, within six months of the effective date of this Act, a plan for assisting workers in communities that are adversely affected by imports of carbon and alloy steel products. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend through FY 1987 trade adjustment assistance for workers and firms. Title X: Elimination of Barriers to International Trade in United States Wine - Wine Equity and Export Expansion Act of 1984 - Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to designate as a major wine trading country each foreign country or group of foreign countries represented as an economic union that: (1) is a potential significant market for U.S. wine; and (2) maintains trariff barriers or nontariff barriers to (or other distortions of) trade in U.S. wine. Sets forth factors to be considered in determining whether to designate a country as a major wine trading country. Requires the President to direct the U.S. Trade representative to enter into consultations with each major wine trading country to seek a reduction or elimination of that country's tariff barriers and nontariff barriers to or other distortions of trade in U.S. wine. Directs the President to notify the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee on specified efforts to expand opportunities in each major wine trading country for exports of U.S. wine. Requires each such notification (consisting of separate reports for each major wine trading country) to include: (1) a description of each act, policy, and practice in that country that constitutes a tariff or nontariff barrier to (or other distortion of) trade in U.S. wine; (2) an assessment of whether such act, policy, or practice is subject to international agreements; (3) information with respect to any action taken or proposed to eliminate or reduce each such act, policy, or practice; (4) if such action was not taken an explanation for not taking action; and (5) recommendations to the Congress of any additional legislative authority or other action to obtain the elimination or reduction of foreign tariff barriers or nontariff barriers to trade in U.S. wine. Directs the President to take all appropriate actions under the Trade Act of 1974 to enforce the rights of the United States under a trade agreement or to obtain the elimination of an act, policy, or practice of a major wine trading country if the President has reason to believe that such act, policy, or practice constitutes a tariff barrier or nontariff barrier to (or other distortion of) trade in U.S. wine and: (1) is inconsistent with the provisions of, or otherwise denies benefits to the United States under, any trade agreement; or (2) is unjustifiable, unreasonable, or discriminatory and burdens or restricts U.S commerce. Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to consult with the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee and with representatives of the U.S. wine and grape products industries: (1) before identifying tariff and nontariff barriers to the U.S. wine trade and before designating major wine trading countries; (2) in developing the reports to such Committees; and (3) for purposes of determining whether action by the President is appropriate under the Trade Act of 1974. Encourages the President to: (1) use, for FY 1985, certain authority under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to make available sufficient funds to initiate an export promotion program for U.S. wine; and (2) request, for each subsequent fiscal year, an appropriation for such a wine export promotion program. Title XI: Service Industries Commerce Development - Service Industries Commerce Development Act of 1984 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the Commerce Department a service industries development program. Sets forth the purposes of the program, including development of a data base on issues related to service industries and development of policies to strengthen the export competitiveness of U.S. service industries. Requires the Secretary to establish arrangements with the private sector regarding the access by the Secretary to private sector information that is necessary for the Secretary to carry out his functions under this title. Authorizes the Secretary to request persons to submit to the Secretary information which the Secretary deems necessary. Provides that information given to the Secretary shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed except under specified circumstances. Sets forth civil penalties for persons who fail to furnish such information. Requires the Secretary to consult with representatives of U.S. service industries concerning the development and implementation of policies to strenghten the export competitiveness of U.S. service industries. Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to develop (and coordinate the implementation of) U.S. policies concerning trade in services. Declares it the policy of Congress that the President shall: (1) consult with State governments on issues of trade policy affecting the regulatory authority of non-Federal governments, or their procurement of goods and services; (2) establish one or more intergovernmental policy advisory committees on trade; and (3) provide to State and local governments and to U.S. service industries advice and information concerning U.S. policies on international trade in services. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the President to seek information and advice from representative elements of the private sector and the non-Federal governmental sector. Permits the President to establish policy advisory committees representing non-Federal government interests to provide policy advice concerning the implementation of trade agreements. Requires the Secretary to prepare a biennial report to Congress containing an analysis of information collected with respect to the service industries development program. Permits the President to restrict, with respect to actions on the services of a foreign country, the terms and conditions or deny the issuance of any service sector access authorization. Provides that before the President can impose a fee or other restriction on the services of a foreign country, the U.S. Trade Representative shall, if the services involved are subject to regulation by any Federal or State agency, consult with the head of the agency concerned. Sets forth the Principal United States negotiating objectives with respect to trade inservices. Includes in the term "international trade" trade in both goods and services.
(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #245 (96-0)) Omnibus Tariff and Trade Act of 1984 - Title I: Tariff Schedules Amendments - Subtitle A: Reference to Tariff Schedules - Declares that amendments to the Schedules refer to the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Subtitle B: Permanent Changes in Tariff Treatment - Amends the Schedules to: (1) provide that any fabric that contains nontransparent rubber or plastic shall be regarded not as a textile material but as being wholly rubber or plastic; (2) grant permanent duty-free treatment to warp knitting machines and to provide that knitting machines other than warp knitting machines shall be subject to the same staged rate reductions in column one duty treatment as warp knitting machines were scheduled to receive; (3) define, for duty purposes, the differences between dress and work gloves; (4) provide uniform tariff treatment of pet toys; (5) grant permanent duty-free treatment to imported water chestnuts and bamboo shoots; (6) lower the duty on imported gut used in the manufacture of surgical sutures and to provide for staged rate reductions in such duty; (7) impose a lower duty on orange juice which is not concentrated than the duty on orange juice concentrate and reconstituted orange juice; (8) grant duty-free treatment to articles which were previously entered duty-free pursuant to the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act or the Trade Act of 1974 and which are reimported without having their value enhanced or which are reimported by the same person who originally imported them; (9) grant duty-free treatment to the rendering of geophysical or contracting services in connection with the exploration or extraction of natural resources; (10) permit the duty-free entry of scrolls or tablets of wood or paper which are imported for use in public or private religious observances, whether or not imported for the use of a religious institution; and (11) provide a duty for naphthas derived from petroleum, shale oil, natural gas or combinations thereof (not to exceed a specified amount during the 12 month period beginning January 1 of each year) and other type naphthas. Adds as a new item tapered steel pipes and tubes that are used as parts of illuminating articles. Sets forth the duty for such tubes. Applies to such tubes any reduction in the duty rate as authorized under the Trade Act of 1974. Provides that no rate of duty shall be provided for such tubes under column LDDC (Least Developed Developing Countries) whenever the rate of duty in column 1 for such items is less than the rate of duty for such items in column LDDC. Provides that articles of apparel, except suits, pajamas and other nightwear, playsuits, washsuits, judo, karate and other martial arts uniforms, siwmwear, and infants' sets up to and including 2 years of age, are to be separately classified even if two or more such articles are imported together and designed to be sold at retail. Provides duties on whey protein concentrate and milk protein concentrate. Grants duty-free treatment of lactalbumin. Defines "milk protein concentrate" as any complete milk protein (casein plus albumin) concentrate that is 40 percent or more protein by weight. Imposes a limit upon the amount of whey protein concentrate, lactalbumin, and milk protein concentrate that may be entered into the United States. Grants duty-free treatment to meta-toluic acid (MTA). Imposes a duty upon other types of MTA. Provides additional duties on certain ferroalloys. Defines the term "fair price differential". Directs the Secretary of Commerce each year to determine and publish the fair price for such ferroalloys. Provides that staged rate reductions under specified presidential proclamation shall not apply to specified ferroalloys. Subtitle C: Temporary Changes in Tariff Treatment - Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) crude feathers and down through June 30, 1987; and (2) certain textile fabrics used in the manufacture of hovercraft skirts through June 30, 1986. Extends through December 31, 1989, the duty on canned corned beef. Suspends, through June 30, 1987, the duty on: (1) (m-xylenediamine (MXDA); (2) (1, 3-Bis (a-minomethyl) cyclohexane (1, 3-BAC); (3) (4, 4'-Bis (a, a-dimethylbenzyl) diphenylamine; and (4) flecainide acetate. Reduces the duty on: (1) caffeine through December 31, 1985; and (2) certain watch crystals through December 31, 1987. Provides for an additional reduction in the column one duty and in the LDDC duty in each of 1985, 1986, and 1987. Extends the tariff reduction for certain unwrought lead through July 1, 1988. Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) flat knitting machines through June 30, 1988; (2) certain cobalt alloys through June 30, 1985; (3) 4-chloro-3-methylphenol through June 30, 1987; and (4) certain clock radios through December 31, 1985. Suspends the duty on: (1) certain menthol feedstocks through June 30, 1987; (2) 2-Methyl, 4-chlorophenol through December 31, 1987; (3) 6-amino-1-naphthol-3-sulfonic acid through December 31, 1986; (4) B-naphthol through December 31, 1986; and (5) 2-(4-aminophenyl)-6-methylbenzothiazole-7-sulfonic acid through December 31, 1986. Suspends, through December 31, 1987, the duty on: (1) acetylsulfaguanidine; (2) sulfamethazine; (3) sulfaguanidine; (4) sulfaquinoxaline; and (5) sulfanilamide. Suspends, through December 31, 1985, the duty on parts of spindle motors suitable for computer memory disk drives. Increases, through December 31, 1986, the column one rate of duty on melamine. Suspends the duty on: (1) rifampin through December 31, 1986; (2) mepenzolate through December 31, 1987; (3) desipramine hydrochloride through December 31, 1987; (4) diphenyl guanidine and di-ortho-lolyl guanidine through June 30, 1987; (5) certain forms of zinc through June 30, 1989; (6) clomiphene citrate through June 30, 1986; (7) terfenadine through June 30, 1986; (8) dicyclomine hydrochloride through June 30, 1986; (9) lactulose through June 30, 1987; (10) iron-dextran complex through June 30, 1987; (11) circular knitting machines designed for sweater or garment length knitting through December 31, 1985; (12) uncompounded allyl resins through December 31, 1986; (13) 0-benzyl-p-chlorophenol through December 31, 1987; (14) narrow (less than 12 inches in width) fabric weaving machines, not including parts, through June 30, 1987 (parts under another section of the Schedules); (15) nicotine resin complex through June 30, 1987; (16) tartaric acid and tartaric chemicals through June 30, 1988; (17) mixtures of 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, magnesium chloride and magnesium nitrate through June 30, 1987; (18) mixtures of potassium 1-(p-chloro-phenyl 1)-1, 4-dihydro-6-methyl-4-oxopyriazine-3-carboxylate (fenridazon-potassium) and formulation adjuvants through June 30, 1987; (19) trichlorosalicylic acid through June 30, 1986; (20) m-Aminophenol through June 30, 1986; (21) 6-Amino-1-naphthol-3-sulfonic acid through June 30, 1986; (22) 4-acetaminobenzene-sulfonyl chloride through June 30, 1986; (23) lace-braiding machines and parts through June 30, 1987; (24) yttrium bearing ores, materials, and compounds containing more than 19 percent but less than 85 percent of yttrium oxide equivalent through June 30, 1989; (25) natural graphite through December 31, 1987; (26) tetraamino biphenyl through December 31, 1988; (27) certain chemical intermediate (6R,7R)-(R)-2Amino-2-phenyl acetamido-3-methyl-8-oxo-5-thla-1-azabicyclo (4.2.0) oct-2-ene-2-carboxylic acid disolvate through December 31, 1986: (28) certain magnetron tubes through December 31, 1986; and (29) metal frames for hand-held umbrellas through June 30, 1987. Increases the rate of duty on photograph albums through December 31, 1985. Subtitle D: Effective Dates - Provides the effective dates of coverage with respect to articles contained in this Act. Title II: Customs and Miscellaneous Amendments - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the refund of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported packaging material if such material is exported within three years without any changes in its conditions or is destroyed under Customs supervision and is not used within the U.S. before such exportation or destruction. Makes available certain information contained in the manifests of cargo vessels arriving in the United States. Provides that such information shall not be made available to the public if: (1) such disclosure would cause personal injury or property damage; or (2) such information must be kept secret for reasons of national defense or foreign policy. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish procedures to provide access to such manifests. Exempts from the entry requirements of the Act those passenger vessels on a round trip from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the British Virgin Islands and licensed yachts or undocumented American pleasure vessels not engaged in trade. Allows such exemption only if such vessels do not violate U.S. customs laws and have not visited any hovering vessel. Requires the master of the vessel to report to appropriate customs officials any article required by law to be entered. Provides that the same requirements be applied with respect to vessels returning from the British Virgin Islands. Provides civil penalties for persons who import, export, or attempt to import or export: (1) any stolen self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part; or (2) a self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part knowing that its identification number has been altered. Requires the forfeiture of any such vehicle or vehicle part. Requires that persons who attempt to export a used self-propelled vehicle must present to the appropriate customs officer the vehicle and a document describing such vehicle. States that customs officers may cooperate or exchange information (either before or after exportation or importation) with respect to motor vehicles, off-highway mobile equipment, vessels, or aircraft with any Federal, State, local, and foreign governmental authorities engaged in theft prevention. Increases from $250 to $1,000 the value of imported goods eligible for informal entry. Requires that specified imported iron or steel pipes or pipe fittings, imported compressed gas cylinders, and imported manhole rings or frames shall be marked with the English name of the country where they were manufactured. Exempts vessels designed and used primarily for transporting passengers or property from the duty on equipment and repairs made in a foreign country on a U.S. flag vessel unless the vessel left the United States for the sole purpose of obtaining such equipment or repairs. Provides for the refund ("drawback") of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported merchandise if fungible merchandise or an aggregate of such imported merchandise and fungible merchandise, either of which has been imported by a person prior to the same person's subsequent exportation of such identical merchandise: (1) is, within three years, exported or destroyed under Customs supervision; and (2) is not used within the United States before such exportation or destruction. Provides that the use of domestic merchandise acquired in exchange for imported merchandise of the same kind and quality shall be treated as the use of such imported merchandise if no certificate of delivery is issued with respect to such imported merchandise. States that: (1) the sale (or likelihood of sale) of certain imported merchandise is subject to the imposition of countervailing duties; and (2) specified references to the sale of foreign merchandise includes leasing arrangements of such merchandie. Amends the Schedules to add a new section with regard to the return of articles from space. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that the return of articles from space, under specified circumstances, shall not be considered as an importation. Defines "industry" with respect to processed agricultural products. Defines "processed agricultural products". Prohibits an individual (other than solely for that person) or corporation from conducting customs business (activities involving transactions with the Customs Service concerning the entry and payment of duties on imported merchandise) unless a valid customs brokers license and permit has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury to such individual or corporation. Permits the granting of such license to a corporation provided at least one officer of such corporation holds a customs brokers license. (Currently, at least two officers of a corporation must hold a license in order for the corporation to conduct customs business.) Provides for the revocation or suspension of such license and permit, or the imposition of a monetary penalty, for a customs broker who: (1) fails to have such license and permit while transacting customs business; (2) makes false statements on an application for such license or permit, or on a report filed with the Customs Service; (3) has been convicted of certain felonies or misdemeanors after the filing of an application for such license; (4) is licensed as a corporation and fails to have at least one officer validly licensed for a continuous period of 120 days (currently, it is for a continuous 60 day period); or (5) fails to employ for the same period at least one licensed individual within the district in which a permit was issued. Permits a broker to appeal any decision by the Secretary to deny, revoke, or suspend such broker's license or permit, or to impose a monetary penalty upon him or her, by filing a petition in the Court of International Trade. Permits the Secretary to prescribe regulations relating to the issuance of licenses or permits to customs brokers. Permits the suspension or revocation of a brokers license if a customs broker triennial report is not filed with the Secretary. Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Court of International Trade to review any decision of the Secretary to: (1) deny an individual a license or permit; (2) revoke a license due to operation of law; or (3) impose a monetary penalty due to a violation under the Act. Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Court of International Trade on civil action cases which arise out of an import transaction and which are commenced by the United States to recover a monetary penalty due to a violation under the Act. Permits an individual whose license or permit has been denied or revoked due to operation of law to commence an action for review in the Court of International Trade. Provides for the commencement of such actions in cases where a monetary penalty has been imposed. Prohibits the commencement of an action unless it is commenced within 60 days after the entry of a decision relating to: (1) the denial or revocation of a license or permit; or (2) the imposition of a monetary penalty. Provides that the scope of review for decisions by the Secretary to suspend or revoke a broker's license and permit shall be made on the basis of the record before the court in accordance with the provisions of this Act, except for the administrative hearing procedure on the revocation or suspension of a license or permit which shall be made in accordance with 5 USC 706. Provides that with respect to the collection or assessment of a monetary penalty imposed under the Act, the Court of International Trade may not render a judgment in a greater amount than that sought in the initial pleading of the United States. Prohibits a customs officer from permitting the delivery of imported merchandise from a public store or bonded warehouse until proof is produced showing that any customs broker's lien has been satisfied or discharged. Authorizes the Secretary to provide a refund in cases where excess duties have been paid prior to the liquidation of an entry because of a clerical error. Sets forth the effective dates of the amendments made by this Act. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides duty-free treatment to a pipe organ for use by a named cathedral. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reliquidate as duty-free specified entries covering scientific equipment for a named cancer hospital. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to request the Secretary of the Treasury to take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the aggregate quantity of European Communities (EC) articles in each product category identified by the Secretary in such request that are entered into the United States are in accordance with the terms of the Arrangement on European Community Export of Pipes and Tubes if the Secretary determines that: (1) the level of exports of pipes and tubes to the United States from EC is exceeding the average share of annual U.S. consumption specified in the Arrangement; or (2) distortion is occurring in the pattern of U.S.-EC trade within the pipe and tube sector. Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act to exempt from State and local taxation: (1) tangible personal property imported from outside the United States and held in a foreign-trade zone for certain purposes; and (2) tangible personal property produced in the United States and held in a zone for exportation. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a business expense deduction for advertisements placed with a foreign broadcast station and directed to a market in the United States if a similar deduction is denied in the country in which such station is located for an advertisement placed with a U.S. broadcast station and directed to a market in that country. Amends Federal firearms laws to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize the importation by licensed importers of: (1) rifles and shotguns that are listed as curios or relics; and (2) handguns that are listed as curios or relics if such handguns are generally recognized as suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes. Amends the Schedules to authorize the President to provide both duty-free treatment under column 1 and modifications in the descriptions of specified articles of the Tariff Schedules of the United States that are certified for use in civil aircraft. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to reliquidate, within six months of the date of enactment of this Act, the entry of two mass spectrometer systems which were imported into the United States for the use of Montana State University and with respect to applications to the International Trade Administration for duty-free entry of scientific equipment if the Secretary of Commerce finds that such systems are eligible for duty-free treatment under specified sections of the Schedules. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to admit duty-free any article provided by the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona and the Max Planck Institute for the construction and operation of a specified telescope if: (1) such article is within the meaning of a specified section of the Schedules; and (2) no such articles of equivalent scientific value for which such article is to be used is being manufacutured in the United States. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to: (1) admit duty-free any repair components for such articles previously admitted duty-free; and (2) readmit duty-free any article previously admitted duty-free and subsequently returned to Germany for repair. Provides a duty on any article that is used for any purpose other than the joint project within five years after having entered the United States. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should request the President to call for an International Trade Commission investigation of honey imports. Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide a bond on products from a beneficiary country that are imported directly from such country into Puerto Rico for processing or use in manufacturing in Puerto Rico. Prohibits the imposition of a duty on the withdrawal from warehouse of such products if, at the time of such withdrawal, such products meet specified requirements. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the International Trade Commission (ITC), when determining whether increased imports have resulted in a serious injury to a competing domestic industry, to take into account any significant increase in the share of total imports attributable to domestic producers in the industry. Requires the ITC, when determining whether imports are a substantial cause of serious injury to a competing domestic industry, to take into account an increase in imports and a decline in the proportion of the domestic market supplied by domestic producers regardless of whether the imports are attributable to domestic producers in the industry. Requires the ITC, in determining the domestic industry producing an article like or directly competitive with an imported article, to treat as part of the domestic industry only the domestic production of a domestic producer which also imports. Defines the term "significant idling of productive facilities" to mean a decline in domestic production, the closing of plants, or the underutilization of production capacity. Prohibits the ITC, from taking into account in determining whether increased imports are a substantial cause of or a threat of serious injury to a competing domestic industry: (1) the probable effectiveness of import relief and consideration of the position of the industry in the U.S. economy; (2) the effect of import relief on consumers and on competition in the domestic markets for such articles; (3) the effect of import relief on U.S. international economic interests; or (4) the effect on U.S. industries and firms of tariff changes or other import restrictions which may result from international obligations with respect to compensation. Declares that an ITC finding that a significant number of domestic firms operate at a reasonable level of profit or that the profits of the domestic industry are not in a downward trend shall not preclude an ITC determination that increased imports are a substantial cause of or threat of serious injury to such domestic industry. Requires that the importation of any articles by domestic producers in an industry shall be a factor supporting the existence of or the threat of serious injury to such industry. Requires the ITC, when determining whether imports are a substantial cause of serious injury to a competing domestic industry, to take into account the effect of plant closings on the production, employment, capacity, capacity utilization and profits of a domestic industry. Grants duty-free entry treatment for research equipment imported for the use of North Dakota State University after September 15, 1983. Directs the President, through the U.S. Trade Representative, to negotiate with the principal foreign copper-producing countries to conclude voluntary restraint agreements to effect a balanced reduction of foreign copper production to: (1) allow the price of copper on international markets to rise to levels that will permit the remaining copper operations located in the United States to attract needed capital; and (2) achieve a secure domestic supply of copper. Redesignates the "International Investment Survey Act of 1976" to the "International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act". Amends the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act to direct the President to: (1) conduct a regular data collection program to secure information on international capital flows relating to trade in services (the payment to, or receipt from, any person of funds for the purchase or sale of a service); (2) conduct such studies to prepare reports on specific aspects of trade in services that may have significant implications for the economic welfare and national security of the United States; (3) study the adequacy of information and reporting requirements relating to trade in services and to report periodically to specified congressional committees on national and international developments with respect to laws affecting such services; and (4) conduct, for a specified period, benchmark surveys with respect to trade in services between unaffiliated U.S. persons and foreign persons. Deletes specified recordkeeping requirements relating to international investment. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to charge a user fee to individuals for the use of customs services at the Lebanon, New Hampshire, airport and other designated airports. Provides a formula for the designation of such airports. Sets forth penalties for the failure to pay such user fee. Expresses the sense of Congress that copyright protection is essential for computer software and lack of such protection or the use of other legal protections incorporating compulsory licensing would undermine the computer software industry here and abroad. States that any nation's withdrawal of copyright protection or instigation of broad compulsory licensing of software should be opposed under the Universal Copyright Convention or through other avenues. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the Council of Economic Advisors to prepare an analysis of the economic impact of any increase in, or imposition of, any duty or other import restriction which the ITC recommended in a specified report to the President. Requires the chairman of such council to submit to the President and to the Congress a report on such analysis. Directs the ITC to submit a specified report to such council and the President. Requires the Commissioner of Customs to notify specified congressional committees relating to any action which would: (1) result in a significant reduction in force of employees other than by attrition; (2) eliminate or relocate any U.S. Customs Service office or port of entry; or (3) significantly reduce the number of employees assigned to such office or port of entry. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should direct appropriate members of the administration to: (1) pursue discussions with Canada directed toward resolving problems relating to U.S. imports of Canadian pork; and (2) to use all available authorities to protect the economic viability of the U.S. pork industry and to promote free and fair trade. Title III: Miscellaneous Amendments to the Trade Act of 1974 - International Trade and Investment Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to set forth provisions dealing with foreign trade barriers. Directs the United States Trade Representative, (USTR) through the interagency trade organization established pursuant to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, to identify, analyze, and estimate the impact of practices that constitute significant barriers to or distortions of: (1) U.S. exports of goods or services; and (2) foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, especially if it has implications for trade in goods or services. Sets forth factors to be considered by the USTR in such analysis. Directs the USTR to update the analysis annually. Directs the USTR to submit the analysis to the appropriate congressional committees. Requires the report to include any action taken to eliminate such trade barriers. Directs the USTR to consult with Congress on trade policy priorities. Directs Federal agencies to furnish information and other assistance to prepare such analysis. Authorizes the President to respond to a foreign entity's unfair trade practices by taking action with respect to any goods or sector of such entity without regard to whether the goods or sector were involved in the unfair trade practice. (Current law provides that the President may take action against the products or services of the foreign entity.) Authorizes the President to propose legislation to protect U.S. trade rights or to eliminate unfair trade practices. Requires such legislative proposals to be given priority treatment. Requires a summary of a petition for a trade investigation by the USTR to be published in the Federal Register (currently, the entire petition must be published) if the USTR decides to begin an investigation with respect to the issues raised by the petition. Authorizes the USTR to initiate an investigation in order to advise the President concerning the exercise of the President's authority to take action against unfair trade practices. Directs the USTR to consult with the appropriate congressional committees before beginning such an investigation. Authorizes the USTR to delay for up to 90 days any request for consultation by a foreign entity concerning a petition for investigation into unfair trade practices. Directs the USTR to publish notice of the delay in the Federal Register and to report to Congress the reasons for the delay. Changes the definition of "commerce" for purposes of foreign trade investigations to include: (1) services associated with international trade, whether or not related to specific goods (currently products); and (2) foreign direct investment by U.S. persons with implications for trade in goods or services. Defines "unreasonable", "unjustifiable," and "discriminatory" for purposes of such investigations. Prohibits making information which the USTR has received in a trade investigation available to the public, if: (1) the person who provided the information makes a specified certification; (2) the USTR determines that such certification is well-founded; and (3) the person providing the information provides an adequate nonconfidential summary. Authorizes the USTR to use the information in trade investigations or to make it available to the public in a form which cannot identify the person providing the information. Sets forth the principal U.S. negotiating objectives with respect to trade in services, foreign direct investment, and high technology products. Directs the USTR to develop and coordinate the implementation of U.S. policies concerning trade in services. Requires Federal agencies responsible for regulating any service sector industry to advise and work with the USTR concerning: (1) the treatment afforded U.S. services sector's interest in foreign markets; or (2) allegations of unfair practices by foreign governments or companies in a service sector. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish a service industries development program. Sets forth the goals of the program. Expresses the policy of the Congress that the President shall: (1) consult with State governments on trade policy issues affecting the regulatory authority on non-Federal governments or their procurement of goods and services; and (2) establish one or more intergovernmental policy advisory committees on trade. Authorizes the President to establish policy advisory committees representing non-Federal governmental interests to provide policy advice on trade negotiating objectives, bargaining positions, and the implementation of trade agreements. Authorizes the President to negotiate to reduce trade barriers in foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, especially if such investment has implications for trade in goods and services. Directs the USTR to obtain the reduction and elimination of any export performance requirements of a foreign country that adversely affects the economic interests of the United States. Permits the imposition of duties or import restrictions by the USTR on the products or services of such country. Provides compensation to such countries under appropriate circumstances. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements concerning high technology industries. Authorizes the President to proclaim the modification, elimination, or continuance of any existing duty, duty-free, or excise treatment, or any additional duties to carry out agreements concluded under this Act. Requires the President to exercise this authority only with respect to specified items listed in the U.S. Tariff Schedules. Provides for the termination of such authority within five years after the enactment of this Act. Requires that import relief actions recommended by the International Trade Commission (ITC) shall take effect even though the President proposes different actions upon the enactment of a joint resolution of the Congress within the 90-day period beginning on the date on which the President's actions are transmitted to the Congress. (Currently, such congressional approval is by concurrent resolution of both Houses and must occur within 90 days of receiving such proposal.) Requires the President to impose the action which was recommended by the ITC within 30 days after the enactment of such joint resolution. Title IV: Trade with Israel and Canada - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to permit the entering into of trade agreements that eliminate or reduce any duty imposed by the United States with Israel and Canada solely. Provides that the negotiation of such eliminations or reductions shall take into account any product that benefits from a discriminatory preferential tariff arrangement between Israel and a third country, if the tariff preference on such product has been the subject of a challenge by the United States under the authority of the Trade Act of 1974 and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Prohibits the extension of any trade benefit to a country by reason of the extension of any such benefit to Israel and Canada. Permits the entering into of trade agreements that eliminate or reduce any duty imposed by the United States with any other country than Israel or Canada if specified requirements are met. Revises the term "barrier" to include any duty or other import restriction. Revises the term "implementing bill" to include specified provisions relating to trade agreements with Israel. Authorizes the President to seek through an agreement the establishment of a joint commission to resolve trade and other economic issues between the United States and Canada. Title V: Generalized System of Preferences - Generalized System of Preferences Renewal Act of 1984 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend the Generalized System of Preferences until January 3, 1995. Directs the President, in determining whether to provide duty-free treatment for an eligible article from a beneficiary developing country, to consider the extent of the beneficiary developing country's competitiveness with respect to eligible articles. Prohibits the President from designating a country as a beneficiary developing country if such country has nationalized or has taken other steps which in effect nationalize U.S. owned property, including patents, trademarks, or copyrights. Directs the President, in determining whether to designate a country a beneficiary developing country, to consider: (1) the extent to which such country is providing the means for foreign nationals to exercise exclusive rights in intellectual property, including patent, trademark, and copyright rights; and (2) the extent to which such country has taken action to reduce trade distorting investment practices and policies. Includes footwear, handbags, luggage, flat goods, work gloves, and leather wearing apparel as articles which the President may not designate as eligible articles qualifying for duty-free treatment. Directs the President to report to the Congress by January 4, 1988, on the application of the Generalized System of Preferences, with particular emphasis on: (1) the extent to which beneficiary developing countries have assured equitable and reasonable access to the markets and basic commodity resources of such countries, provided protection for rights in intellectual property, and taken action to reduce trade-distorting investment practices and policies; (2) the actions taken by the President to limit the application of duty-free treatment with respect to any country which has failed to provide the United States with market access. Prohibits treating a country as a beneficiary developing country with respect to any article if the amount of exports of such article by such country to the United States exceeds a certain quantity or value. Declares that such prohibition shall not apply if a like or competitive article is not produced in the United States on January 3, 1985. Authorizes the President to disregard such prohibition if the appraised value of the total U.S. imports of such article does not exceed a specified amount. Directs the President to review the eligible articles in the Generalized System of Preferences by January 4, 1987. Provides for changing the tariff treatment of beneficiary developing countries which the President determines to have demonstrated a sufficient degree of competitiveness. Authorizes the President, after January 4, 1987, to waive the removal of tariff preferences with respect to an eligible article of a beneficiary developing country if the President: (1) receives the advice of the International Trade Commission on whether any U.S. industry is likely to be adversely affected by such waiver; (2) determines that such waiver is in the national economic interest of the United States; and (3) publishes such determination in the Federal Register. Lists factors to be considered in deciding whether to grant such a waiver. Permits redesignating a country as a beneficiary developing country under certain conditions. Declares that the competitive need limit on treatment as a beneficiary country shall not apply to least developed beneficiary developing countries. Requires the President to determine which countries are least developed beneficiary developing countries by July 4, 1985 and to notify Congress at least 60 days before any such determination becomes final. Amends the Schedules to make certain technical changes so that the Tariff Schedules conform with the Customs Convention on Containers, 1972. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that customs duties will be due 15 days after the date of liquidation or reliquidation. Provides that if payment of the duties is not made within 30 days of such date, then such payment will be considered delinquent and bear interest from the date of liquidation or reliquidation. Provides a refund on any overpayment of duty and interest thereon if an entry is reliquidated as a result of: (1) a protest being filed; (2) a clerical error; or (3) a court order. Title VI: Small Business Trade Remedies - Small Business Trade Remedies Act of 1984 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) to establish within the Department of Commerce a Small Business Trade Assistance Office to provide the public, upon request, information concerning: (1) remedies and benefits available under the trade laws; and (2) the petition and application procedures, and the appropriate filing dates, with respect to such remedies and benefits. Requires agencies administering a trade law to provide technical assistance to small businesses with regard to the filing of trade relief petitions. Includes specified provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, the Tariff Act of 1930, and the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 in the term "trade laws". Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for review of determinations made by the Secretary of Commerce, the administering authority, or the International Trade Commission (ITC) with respect to: (1) countervailing and antidumping duty proceedings (currently, such an appeal may be taken in the U.S. Court of International Trade); and (2) the liquidation of imported merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption (currently, such an appeal may be taken in either the U.S. Court of International Trade or the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit). Repeals specified provisions of Federal law granting jurisdiction to the U.S. Court of International Trade with respect to the review of specified trade relief determinations made under the Act. Sets forth the order of civil action cases before the U.S. Court of International Trade. Sets forth the procedure for judicial review of administering authority and ITC determinations before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Includes in the term 'interested party' an association, a majority of whose members is composed of specified interested parties with respect to a like product. Requires both the administering authority and the ITC, upon the request of any party to a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation, to hold a hearing before making a final determination with respect to: (1) subsidies being provided with regard to merchandise subject to a quantitative restriction agreement; and (2) such merchandise being sold in the United States at less than fair value. Provides an exemption for required hearings by the ITC upon request and before making an injury determination in countervailing or antidumping duty investigations. Permits an officer or employee of the U.S. Customs Service who is involved in conducting an investigation regarding fraud under the Act to receive confidential information that has been submitted to the administering authority or the ITC with respect to such investigation. Requires the administering authority and the ITC with regard to information that has been requested to be kept confidential to provide that such confidential information be accompanied by specified summaries and statements. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to study the practices that are applied in making adjustments to purchase prices, exporter's sales prices, foreign market value, and constructed value in determining antidumping duties. Sets forth what shall be included in such study. Allows the administering authority, for purposes of determining U.S. or foreign prices, to use averaging or recognized sampling techniques. Gives the administering authority the sole authority to select such techniques. Permits the administering authority to make a preliminary determination on the basis of the record then available as to whether a subsidy is being provided with respect to merchandise which is the subject of a countervailing duty investigation provided a written waiver of verification of information is received by such authority. Permits the administering authority to terminate a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation initiated by it. Requires the administering authority, with respect to the suspension of a countervailing and antidumping duty investigation that is based upon an agreement to eliminate or to cease exports or agreements to eliminate the injurious effects of such subsidies, to permit all interested parties (as described under the Act) to submit comments and information for the record before the date on which notice of such suspension is published. Provides for an affirmative final determination in critical circumstances cases with respect to subsidies having been provided to merchandise that is the subject of a countervailing and antidumping duty investigation even though the administering authority's preliminary determination as to such subsidies was negative. Sets forth specified actions the administering authority must take if it makes an affirmative preliminary determination. Adds a specified condition for the allowance by the administering authority of the posting of a bond or other security in lieu of the required deposit of estimated antidumping duties pending the liquidation of entries of merchandise. Prohibits a customs officer, with respect to all entries, or withdrawals from warehouse, for consumption of merchandise subject to a countervailing duty order, from delivering merchandise of a class or kind to the person who imported it unless that importer complies with specified information requirements. Requires countervailing and antidumping duties imposed by this Act to be treated as any other customs duties for purposes of any law relating to the drawback of customs duties. Provides that for purposes of determining U.S. price, the term "exporter" includes the person by whom or for whose account the merchandise is imported into the United States if: (1) such person owns or controls, directly or indirectly, through stock ownership or control, 20 percent or more of (currently, any interest in) the business of such exporter, manufacturer, or producer; and (2) such exporter, manufacturer, or producer owns or controls, directly or indirectly, through stock ownership or control, 20 percent of (currently, any interest in) any business conducted by such person. Changes the term "usual wholesale quantities" to "usual commercial quantities". Includes a "reseller's price" for purposes of determining the "purchase price" of merchandise under the Act. Provides that the foreign market value of imported merchandise shall be the price at the time such merchandise is first sold within the United States by the person for whom (or for whose account) the merchandise is imported to any other person who is not specifically described under the Act with respect to such person. Provides that an intermediate country shall be treated, for purposes of the Act, as the country from which the merchandise was exported. Provides for subsidy practices discovered by the administering authority during a countervailing duty proceeding. Sets forth specified procedures the administering authority and the ITC must take with respect to information presented or discussed at an ex parte meeting. Makes specified changes to terms used under the Act. Requires interest to be paid on overpayments and underpayments of amounts deposited on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on and after: (1) the date of publication of a countervailing or antidumping duty order; or (2) the date of a finding under the Antidumping Act, 1921. Provides the interest rate to be that rate as established by a specififed section of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Sets forth the effective dates of the amendments made by this Act. Title VII: Trade Law Reform - Declares that amendments to this Act refer to amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) to provide that the party, seeking revocation of an antidumping order shall have the burden of persuasion with respect to whether there are changed circumstances sufficient to warrant revocation of such antidumping order. Directs the International Trade Commission (ITC), in determining material injury or threat of material injury in antidumping or countervailing duty investigations, to consider the cumulative impact of imports from two or more countries under investigation or subject to final antidumping or countervailing duty orders if, after reviewing the factors and conditions of trade, the ITC determines that: (1) the marketing of such imports is reasonably coincident; and (2) imports from each source have contributed to the overall material injury to the industry resulting from such imports. Requires the ITC to consider specified factors with respect to its determination of the threat of material injury to a U.S. industry by reason of imports (or sales for importation) of any merchandise. Requires such determination to be made on the basis of real evidence and imminent actual injury. Provides that there shall be no compromises of countervailing or antidumping duty cases by the Secretary of the Treasury. Amends the Trade Agreement Act of 1979 to require the ITC, in cases involving revocation of countervailing duties, not to base a negative determination of potential material injury on any export taxes, duties, or other charges levied on the export of merchandise to the United States specifically intended to offset the subsidy received. Includes in the term "interested party" an association, a majority of whose members is composed of specified interested parties with respect to a like product. Permits the administering authority, under certain conditions, to extend the deadline for a final determination in a countervailing duty investigation to the date of its final determination in an antidumping duty investigation if the antidumping duty investigation was initiated simultaneously with the countervailing duty investigation. Defines an "upstream subsidy" as any subsidy, as described in the Act, which: (1) is paid or bestowed by a foreign country upon a product which is used to manufacture merchandise which is already under investigation; (2) results in a price for such product that is lower than its available price in such country; and (3) has a significant effect on the cost of manufacturing or producing such merchandise. Requires, in administering such definition, that an association of two or more foreign countries, political subdivisions, dependent territories, or possessions of foreign countries organized into a customs union outside of the United States shall be treated as one country if such subsidy is provided by the customs union. Requires the administering authority to adjust the price of merchandise under investigation that is found to be upstream subsidized by the country that produced it. Requires the administering authority to include such upstream subsidy in any countervailing duty that is imposed on such merchandise that has been found to have been bestowed a subsidy. Requires that a countervailing duty order shall presumptively apply to all merchandise of the class or kind which have been determined to materially injure U.S. industries and which are exported from the country being investigated, except that differing duties may be imposed if the administering authority determines that there is a significant differential between companies receiving subsidy benefits or if a State-owned enterprise is involved. Defines "downstream dumping" as occurring when a material or component incorporated in merchandise under investigation is purchased from another country by the manufacturer or producer at a price that is below its foreign market value. Requires the administering authority, when calculating the cost of such material or components due to downstream dumping, to include an amount equal to the difference between the foreign market value of such material or component and either: (1) the generally available price of the product in the country of manufacture; or (2) the price of the product if it had not been subsidized. Extends the time period that the administering authority must make its preliminary determination with respect to the existence of antidumping if prior to such determination there is reasonable basis to believe or suspect that downstream dumping is occurring and the administering authority concludes that such additional time is necessary to make its determination with regard to downstream dumping. Authorizes the administering authority to accept an agreement to restrict the volume of imports of merchandise into the United States (with either the government of the country where the merchandise which is being investigated is produced or with the exporters of such merchandise who account for substantially all the imports of such merchandise) if the agreement will eliminate completely the injurious effect of such imports. Permits the posting of a bond or other security in lieu of the deposit of estimated antidumping duties required under the Act if, among other conditions: (1) a case for import relief has not been designated as extraordinarily complicated or the administering authority's final determination with respect to such relief has not been extended; (2) a party submitting information demonstrates that the weighted average of the amount by which the foreign market value of the merchandise exceeds the U.S. price of the merchandise is significantly less than the amount of such excess specified in an antidumping duty order; and (3) the data concerning the foreign market value and the U.S. price apply to sales in the usual wholesale quantities and in the ordinary course of trade and the number of such sales are sufficient to form an adequate basis for comparison. Sets forth procedures concerning confidential information and written comments from interested parties regarding the posting of such bond. Extends the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to require the presentation of a valid export license as a condition for the entry of steel products into the United States. Authorizes the imposition of countervailing and antidumping duties upon merchandise, provided such merchandise meets all the other requirements for the imposition of such duties, which is: (1) sold (or likely to be sold) for importation into the United States; and (2) by reason of sales (or likelihood of sales) of such merchandise imported into the United States. Requires the ITC to make a final determination of whether a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of sales (or likelihood of sales) for importion of the merchandise with respect to which the administering authority has made an affirmative determination under the Act. Provides that, for purposes of this Act, a reference to the sale of merchandise includes the entering into of any leasing arrangement regarding the merchandise that is equivalent to the sale of such merchandise. Provides that the existence of sales for future delivery of irrevocable offers to sell the merchandise that is the subject of a countervailing or antidumping duty petition may be a basis for an affirmative determination by the administering authority. Provides that, with respect to a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation by the administering authority, the absence of a history of imports in sufficient volume to be a present cause of material injury shall not be a basis for a decision not to initiate such investigation if a sufficient allegation of threat of material injury is made. Title VIII: Trade with Nonmarket Economies - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide, in addition to any other duty except a countervailing or antidumping duty, for the imposition of an artificial pricing duty on: (1) imported merchandise from nonmarket economy countries if the import is being or is likely to be sold in the United States at an artificial price; or (2) imports from a country that is a party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, if, because of the imports, a U.S. industry has been materially injured, or has been threatened with material injury, or the establishment of an industry in the United States has been materially retarded. Provides for the initiation of an artificial pricing duty investigation by the administering authority. Requires the administering authority to notify the International Trade Commission (ITC) if such investigation involves a country that is a party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or other similar agreement. Sets forth the requirements for the initiation of an artificial pricing investigation. Prohibits initiation of such an investigation in certain cases where a countervailing duty or antidumping duty investigation is in process or where a countervailing or antidumping duty is in effect. Requires the ITC to make a preliminary determination with respect to whether a U.S. industry is being materially injured by such imports. Requires the administering authority to make a preliminary determination with respect to whether such imports are being sold at an artificial price. Provides in certain cases an extension of time within which such preliminary determination must be made. Provides that if the administering authority finds that merchandise is being sold at an artificial price, then it shall: (1) order the suspension of liquidation of all entries of merchandise subject to such finding; (2) order the posting of a bond equal to the amount that the import price exceeds the actual price of such merchandise; and (3) make available all information which is the basis of such injury determination by the ITC. Sets forth special conditions which must be met and actions which must be taken if the petitioner alleges that critical circumstances exist. Requires the ITC or the administering authority to notify all parties to an artificial pricing investigation of their determinations and to publish such notice in the Federal Register. Provides for the termination or suspension of an artificial pricing investigation. Allows the administering authority to suspend such investigations if the exporters of artificially-priced merchandise agree to cease exports of such merchandise to the United States within six months of the suspension of the investigation or revise the prices of such merchandise to eliminate the artificial price. Allows the administering authority if extraordinary circumstances exist to suspend an investigation if the nonmarket economy country or the exporter under investigation accepts an agreement that will eliminate the injurious effect of such merchandise on the United States. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to such agreements. Provides procedures for the suspension of an investigation and the administrative review of such suspension. Provides civil penalties for violations of agreements to: (1) eliminate artificial pricing; (2) cease exports of artificially priced merchandise; or (3) eliminate the injurious effect of such merchandise. Requires the administering authority within 75 days of its preliminary determination to make a final determination of whether merchandise is being sold in the U.S. at an artificial price. Requires the administering authority to make additional findings if the petitioner alleged that critical circumstances exist and the authority finds that artificial pricing exists. Requires the ITC, if its preliminary determination is affirmative to make a final determination of whether artificially priced imports: (1) have materially injured a U.S. industry: (2) have threatened a U.S. industry with material injury; or (3) have materially retarded the establishment of a U.S. industry. Sets forth procedures that the ITC shall follow if: (1) the preliminary determination of the administering authority is affirmative; and (2) the preliminary determination of the authority is negative and its final determination is affirmative. Sets forth the effect of final determinations by the ITC and the administering authority. Requires publication of such determination in the Federal Register. Requires the administering authority to publish an artificial pricing duty order within a specified time after a final determination. Sets forth the information to be contained in such order. Specifies the merchandise which shall be subject to the imposition of such duties. Sets forth the manner of assessing and collecting such duties. Directs the administering authority to treat an artificial pricing investigation as if it had been commenced as an antidumping duty or countervailing duty investigation whenever the industry of the nonmarket economy country under investigation is market-oriented and there is sufficient verifiable information to permit the investigation to be conducted as an antidumping duty or countervailing duty investigation. Requires the administering authority to treat an antidumping duty or countervailing duty investigation as if it had been commenced as an artificial pricing duty investigation whenever the industry of the nonmarket economy country under investigation is not market-oriented or there is sufficient verifiable information to permit the investigation to be conducted as an artificial pricing duty investigation. Provides for the administrative and judicial review of determinations made with respect to the imposition of artificial pricing duties. Sets forth the method for calculating artificial pricing duties. Title IX: International Trade and Export Policy Study Commission - International Trade and Export Policy Study Commission Act of 1984 - Establishes the International Trade and Export Policy Study Commission which shall be composed of 18 members, six of whom shall be appointed by the President, six by the President pro tempore of the Senate, and six by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Sets forth administrative provisions. Requires the Commission to study and make recommendations concerning U.S. international trade and export policies and practices. Requires the Commission, in conducting its study, to review and make recommendations concerning specified items, including: (1) existing impediments to exports by American industries; (2) the information needs of American industry; and (3) methods for improving export incentives for U.S. businesses. Requires the Commission to submit its report to the President and to the Congress by July 1, 1985. Terminates the Commission on such date. Authorizes appropriations. Title X: Wine Trade - Wine Equity and Export Expansion Act of 1984 - Requires the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to designate as a major wine trading country each foreign country, or group of foreign countries represented as an economic union, that, in the judgement of the USTR: (1) is a potential significant market for U.S. wine; and (2) maintains tariff and nontariff barriers to (or other distortions of) trade in U.S. wines. Sets forth specified factors to be taken into account in making such designation. Requires the President to direct the USTR to enter into consultations with each major wine trading country to seek a reduction or elimination of the country's tariff and nontariff barriers to trade in U.S. wine. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees regarding the extent and effect of efforts undertaken since the submission of a specified report, and during the 12-month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, to expand opportunities in each major wine trading country for U.S. exports of wine. Sets forth what should be included in such notification. Requires the President to take appropriate action to eliminate foreign tariff and nontariff barriers to trade in U.S. wine. Requires the USTR to report to specified congressional committees and with representatives of the wine and grape products industry to identify tariff and nontariff barriers to U.S. wine trade, to designate major wine trading countries, to develop specified Presidential reports to Congress, and to determine whether action is appropriate under the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to tariff and nontariff trade practices. Encourages the President to take specified actions to develop and expand foreign markets for U.S. wine. Title XI: Telecommunications Product Classification - Telecommunications Product Classification Act - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to define the term "entertainment broadcast band receivers" to mean radio receivers designed principally to receive signals in the AM and FM entertainment broadcast bans whether or not capable of receiving signals on other bands. Creates a tariff classification for and imposes a duty on: (1) telephone switching apparatus (including private branch exchange and key system switching apparatus); (2) telephone sets and terminal equipment; (3) other switching apparatus; and (4) other terminal apparatus. Grants duty free treatment to communications satellites. Creates a tariff classification for and imposes a duty on: (1) radio receivers, other than solid-state receivers; (2) solid-state radio receivers designed for motor vehicle installation; (3) other entertainment broadcast band receivers; (4) hand-held citizens ban transceivers; (5) low-power radio-telephonic transceivers operating on specified frequencies; (6) cordless handset telephones; (7) transmitters; (8) telephone answering machines; (9) radio-television-phonograph combination articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telepohnic apparatus, instruments, or networks; (10) insulated electrical conductors with modular telephone connectors; (11) electrical equipment designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus, instruments, or networks; (12) optical fiver bundles; and (13) optical fibers and optical fiber cables.
(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Finance with amendment, S. Rept. 98-308) Title I: Tariff Schedules Amendments - Subtitle A: Reference to Tariff Schedules - Declares that amendments to the Schedules refer to the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Subtitle B: Permanent Changes in Tariff Treatment - Amends the Schedules to: (1) provide that any fabric that contains nontransparent rubber or plastic shall be regarded not as a textile material but as being wholly rubber or plastic; (2) grant permanent duty-free treatment to warp knitting machines and to provide that knitting machines other than warp knitting machines shall be subject to the same staged rate reductions in column one duty treatment as warp knitting machines were scheduled to receive; (3) define, for duty purposes, the differences between dress and work gloves; (4) provide uniform tariff treatment of pet toys; (5) grant permanent duty-free treatment to imported water chestnuts and bamboo shoots; (6) lower the duty on imported gut used in the manufacture of surgical sutures and to provide for staged rate reductions in such duty; (7) impose a lower duty on orange juice which is not concentrated than the duty on orange juice concentrate and reconstituted orange juice; and (8) grant duty-free treatment to articles which were previously entered duty-free pursuant to the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act or the Trade Act of 1974 and which are reimported without having their value enhanced or which are reimported by the same person who originally imported them. Subtitle C: Temporary Changes in Tariff Treatment - Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) crude feathers and down through June 30, 1987; and (2) certain textile fabrics used in the manufacture of hovercraft skirts through June 30, 1986. Extends through October 29, 1989, the duty on canned corned beef. Suspends, through June 30, 1986, the duty on: (1) (m-xylenediamine (MXDA); (2) (1, 3-Bis (a-minomethyl) cyclohexane (1, 3-BAC); (3) (4, 4'-Bis (a, a-dimethylbenzyl) diphenylamine; and (4) flecainide acetate. Reduces the duty on: (1) caffeine through December 31, 1985; and (2) certain watch crystals through December 31, 1986. Provides for an additional reduction in the column one duty and in the LDDC duty in each of 1984, 1985, 1986. Extends the tariff reduction for certain unwrought lead through July 1, 1988. Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) flat knitting machines through June 30, 1988; (2) certain cobalt alloys through June 30, 1986; (3) 4-chloro-3-methylphenol through June 30, 1987; and (4) certain clock radios through September 30, 1985. Suspends the duty on: (1) certain menthol feedstocks through June 30, 1986; (2) 2-Methyl, 4-chlorophenol through September 30, 1986; (3) 6-amino-1-naphthol-3-sulfonic acid through December 31, 1985; (4) B-naphthol through December 31, 1986; and (5) 2-(4-aminophenyl)-6-methylbenzothiazole-7-sulfonic acid through December 31, 1985. Suspends, through December 31, 1986, the duty on: (1) sulfamethazine; (2) sulfaguanidine; (3) sulfaquinoxaline; and (4) sulfanilamide. Suspends, through December 31, 1984, the duty on parts of spindle motors suitable for computer memory disk drives. Increases, through December 31, 1985, the column one rate of duty on melamine. Permits the duty-free entry of the personal effects and the game equipment of foreign participants, officials, and their immediate families who are involved in the XXIII Olympiad. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to carry out this provision. Subtitle D: Effective Dates - Provides the effective dates of coverage with respect to articles contained in this Act. Title II: Customs and Miscellaneous Amendments - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for the refund of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported packaging material if such material is exported within three years without any changes in its conditions or is destroyed under Customs supervision and is not used within the U.S. before such exportation or destruction. Makes available certain information contained in the manifests of cargo vessels arriving in the United States. Provides that such information shall not be made available to the public if: (1) such disclosure would cause personal injury or property damage; or (2) such information must be kept secret for reasons of national defense or foreign policy. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish procedures to provide access to such manifests. Exempts from the entry requirements of the Act those passenger vessels on a round trip from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the British Virgin Islands and licensed yachts or undocumented American pleasure vessels not engaged in trade. Allows such exemption only if such vessels do not violate U.S. customs laws and have not visited any hovering vessel. Requires the master of the vessel to report to appropriate customs officials any article required by law to be entered. Provides that the same requirements be applied with respect to vessels returning from the British Virgin Islands. Provides civil penalties for persons who import, export, or attempt to import or export: (1) any stolen self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part; or (2) a self- propelled vehicle or vehicle part knowing that its identification number has been altered. Requires the forfeiture of any such vehicle or vehicle part. Requires that persons who attempt to export a used self-propelled vehicle must present to the appropriate customs officer the vehicle and a document describing such vehicle. States that customs officers may cooperate or exchange information (either before or after exportation or importation) with respect to motor vehicles, off-highway mobile equipment, vessels, or aircraft with any Federal, State, local, and foreign governmental authorities engaged in theft prevention. Increases from $250 to $1,000 the value of imported goods eligible for informal entry. Requires that specified imported iron or steel pipes or pipe fittings, imported compressed gas cylinders, and imported manhole rings or frames shall be marked with the English name of the country where they were manufactured. Exempts vessels designed and used primarily for transporting passengers or property from the duty on equipment and repairs made in a foreign country on a U.S. flag vessel unless the vessel left the United States for the sole purpose of obtaining such equipment or repairs. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides duty-free treatment to a pipe organ for use by a named cathedral. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reliquidate as duty-free specified entries covering scientific equipment for a named cancer hospital. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to enter into consultations with the European Communities pursuant to the Arrangement on European Communities Export of Pipes and Tubes to the United States (Arrangement). Requires the Secretary to report the results of such consultations to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. Authorizes the Secretary to request the Secretary of the Treasury to ensure during the remainder of the term of the Arrangement that the total quantity of European exports of pipes and tubes to the United States meet the conditions of the Arrangement if the consultations do not result in an agreement that: (1) limits the annual level of such exports to the United States to the 1979 through 1981 average share of annual U.S. consumption; and (2) provides for a pattern of U.S. - European Communities pipe and tube trade that is not distorted. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate regulations to establish the terms of such Arrangement. Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act to exempt from State and local taxation: (1) tangible personal property imported from outside the United States and held in a foreign-trade zone for certain purposes; and (2) tangible personal property produced in the United States and held in a zone for exportation. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a business expense deduction for advertisements placed with a foreign broadcast station and directed to a market in the United States if a similar deduction is denied in the country in which such station is located for an advertisement placed with a U.S. broadcast station and directed to a market in that country. Title III: Trade Act of 1974 Amendments - International Trade and Investment Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to set forth provisions dealing with foreign trade barriers. Directs the United States Trade Representative, (USTR) through the interagency trade organization established pursuant to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, to identify, analyze, and estimate the impact of practices that constitute significant barriers to or distortions of: (1) U.S. exports of goods or services; and (2) foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, especially if it has implications for trade in goods or services. Sets forth factors to be considered by the USTR in such analysis. Directs the USTR to update the analysis annually. Directs the USTR to submit the analysis to the appropriate congressional committees. Requires the report to include any action taken to eliminate such trade barriers. Directs the USTR to consult with Congress on trade policy priorities. Directs Federal agencies to furnish information and other assistance to prepare such analysis. Authorizes the President to respond to a foreign entity's unfair trade practices by taking action with respect to any goods or sector of such entity without regard to whether the goods or sector were involved in the unfair trade practice. (Current law provides that the President may take action against the products or services of the foreign entity.) Authorizes the President to propose legislation to protect U.S. trade rights or to eliminate unfair trade practices. Requires such legislative proposals to be given priority treatment. Requires a summary of a petition for a trade investigation by the USTR to be published in the Federal Register (currently, the entire petition must be published) if the USTR decides to begin an investigation with respect to the issues raised by the petition. Authorizes the USTR to initiate an investigation in order to advise the President concerning the exercise of the President's authority to take action against unfair trade practices. Directs the USTR to consult with the appropriate congressional committees before beginning such an investigation. Authorizes the USTR to delay for up to 90 days any request for consultation by a foreign entity concerning a petition for investigation into unfair trade practices. Directs the USTR to publish notice of the delay in the Federal Register and to report to Congress the reasons for the delay. Changes the definition of "commerce" for purposes of foreign trade investigations to include: (1) services associated with international trade, whether or not related to specific goods (currently products); and (2) foreign direct investment by U.S. persons with implications for trade in goods or services. Defines "unreasonable", "unjustifiable," and "discriminatory" for purposes of such investigations. Prohibits making information which the USTR has received in a trade investigation available to the public, if: (1) the person who provided the information makes a specified certification; (2) the USTR determines that such certification is well-founded; and (3) the person providing the information provides an adequate nonconfidential summary. Authorizes the USTR to use the information in trade investigations or to make it available to the public in a form which cannot identify the person providing the information. Sets forth the principal U.S. negotiating objectives with respect to trade in services, foreign direct investment, and high technology products. Directs the USTR to develop and coordinate the implementation of U.S. policies concerning trade in services. Requires Federal agencies responsible for regulating any service sector industry to advise and work with the USTR concerning: (1) the treatment afforded U.S. services sector's interest in foreign markets; or (2) allegations of unfair practices by foreign governments or companies in a service sector. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish a service industries development program. Sets forth the goals of the program. Expresses the policy of the Congress that the President shall: (1) consult with State governments on trade policy issues affecting the regulatory authority on non-Federal governments or their procurement of goods and services; and (2) establish one or more intergovernmental policy advisory committees on trade. Authorizes the President to establish policy advisory committees representing non-Federal governmental interests to provide policy advice on trade negotiating objectives, bargaining positions, and the implementation of trade agreements. Authorizes the President to negotiate to reduce trade barriers in foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, especially if such investment has implications for trade in goods and services. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements concerning high technology industries. Authorizes the President to proclaim the modification, elimination, or continuance of any existing duty, duty-free, or excise treatment, or any additional duties to carry out agreements concluded under this Act. Requires the President to exercise this authority only with respect to specified items listed in the U.S. Tariff Schedules. Provides for the termination of such authority within five years after the enactment of this Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should request the President to call for an International Trade Commission investigation of honey imports pursuant to the Agriculture Adjustment Act.
(Measure passed House, amended, roll call #225 (368-43)) Title I: Tariff Schedules Amendments - Subtitle A: Reference to Tariff Schedules - Declares that amendments to the Schedules refer to amendments to the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Subtitle B: Permanent Changes in Tariff Treatment - Amends the schedules to: (1) provide that any fabric that contains nontransparent rubber or plastic shall be regarded not as a textile material but as being wholly rubber or plastic; (2) extend permanent duty-free treatment to warp knitting machines; (3) define, for duty purposes, the differences between dress and work gloves; and (4) provide uniform tariff treatment of pet toys. Subtitle C: Temporary Changes in Tariff Treatment - Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) crude feathers and down through June 30, 1987; (2) certain textile fabrics used in the manufacture of hovercraft skirts through June 30, 1986; and (3) flat knitting machines through June 30, 1988. Reduces the duty on: (1) certain disposable surgical drapes and sterile gowns through January 1, 1989; (2) caffeine through December 31, 1985; and (3) certain watch crystals for three years (including an even lower rate of duty on such crystals that are products of a least developed developing country). Suspends, through June 30, 1986, the duty on: (1) 4, 4-Bis (a, a-dimethylbenzyl) diphenylamine; (2) flecainide acetate; and (3) MXDA (meta-Xylene-Diamine) and 1, 3-BAC (1, 3-Bis(aminomethyl) cyclo hexane). Extends the tariff reduction for certain unwrought lead through June 30, 1988. Extends the duty on canned corned beef through October 29, 1989. Subtitle D: Effective Dates - Provides the effective dates of coverage with respect to articles contained in this Act. Title II: Customs and Miscellaneous Amendments - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 - Provides for the refund of any import duty, tax or fee which was imposed on imported packaging material if such material is exported within three years without any changes in its condition or is destroyed under Customs supervision and is not used within the U.S. before such exportation or destruction. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make available certain information contained in the manifests of cargo vessels arriving in the United States. Provides that such information shall not be made available to the public if: (1) such disclosure would cause personal injury or property damage; or (2) such information must be kept secret for reasons of national defense or foreign policy. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish procedures to provide access to such manifests. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to exempt from the entry requirements of the Act those passenger vessels on a round trip from the U.S. Virgin Islands and licensed yachts or undocumented American pleasure vessels not engaged in trade. Allows such exemption only if such vessels do not violate U.S. customs laws and have not visited any hovering vessel. Requires the master of the vessel to report to appropriate customs officials any article required by law to be entered. Provides that the same requirements be applied with respect to vessels returning from the British Virgin Islands. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide civil penalties for persons who import, export, or attempt to import or export: (1) any stolen self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part; or (2) a self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part knowing that its identification number has been altered. Requires the forfeiture of any such vehicle or vehicle part. Requires that persons who attempt to export a used self-propelled vehicle must present to the appropriate customs officer the vehicle and a document describing such vehicle. States that customs officers may cooperate or exchange information (either before or after exportation or importation) with respect to motor vehicles, off-highway mobile equipment, vessels, or aircraft with any Federal, State, local, and foreign governmental authorities engaged in theft prevention. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act to provide that bicycle component parts shall not be exempt under the customs exemption provided by such Act unless the parts are re-exported from the United States. Exempts from State and local taxation: (1) tangible personal property imported from outside the United States and held in a foreign-trade zone for certain purposes; and (2) tangible personal property produced in the United States and held in a zone for exportation. Provides duty-free treatment to a pipe organ for use by a named university. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reliquidate as duty-free specified entries covering scientific equipment for a named cancer hospital.
Title I: Tariff Schedules Amendments - Subtitle A: Reference to Tariff Schedules - Declares that amendments to the Schedules refer to amendments to the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Subtitle B: Permanent Changes in Tariff Treatment - Amends the Schedules to: (1) provide that any fabric that contains nontransparent rubber or plastic shall be regarded not as a textile material but as being wholly rubber or plastic; (2) extend permanent duty-free treatment to warp knitting machines; (3) define, for duty purposes, the differences between dress and work gloves; and (4) provide uniform tariff treatment of pet toys. Subtitle C: Temporary Changes in Tariff Treatment - Extends the suspension of duty on: (1) crude feathers and down through June 30, 1987; (2) certain textile fabrics used in the manufacture of hovercraft skirts through June 30, 1986; and (3) flat knitting machines through June 30, 1988. Reduces the duty on: (1) certain disposable surgical drapes and sterile gowns through January 1, 1989; (2) caffeine through December 31, 1985; and (3) certain watch crystals for three years (including an even lower rate of duty on such crystals that are products of a least developed developing country). Suspends, through June 30, 1986, the duty on: (1) 4, 4-Bis (a, a-dimethylbenzyl) diphenylamine; (2) flecainide acetate; and (3) MXDA (meta-Xylene-Diamine) and 1,3-BAC (a,3-Bis(aminomethyl)-cyclohexane). Extends the tariff reduction for certain unwrought lead through June 30, 1988. Extends the duty on canned corned beef through October 29, 1989. Subtitle D: Effective Dates - Provides the effective dates of coverage with respect to articles contained in this Act. Title II: Customs and Miscellaneous Amendments - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 - Provides for the refund of any import duty, tax, or fee which was imposed on imported packaging material if such material is exported within three years without any changes in its condition or is destroyed under Customs supervision and is not used within the U.S. before such exportation or destruction. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make available certain information contained in the manifests of cargo vessesls arriving in the United States. Provides that such information shall not be made available to the public if: (1) such disclosure would cause personal injury or property damage; or (2) such information must be kept secret for reasons of national defense or foreign policy. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish procedure to provide access to such manifests. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to exempt from the entry requirements of the Act those passenger vessels on a round trip from the U.S. Virgin Islands and licensed yachts or undocumented American pleasure vessels not engaged in trade. Allows such exemption only if such vessels do not violate U.S. customs laws and have not visited any hovering vessel. Requires the master of the vessel to report to appropriate customs officials any article required by law to be entered. Provides that the same requirements be applied with respect to vessels returning from the British Virgin Islands. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide civil penalties for persons who import, export, or attempt to import or export: (1) any stolen self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part; or (2) a self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part knowing that its identification number has been altered. Requires the forfeiture of any such vehicle or vehicle part. Requires that persons who attempt to export a used self-propelled vehicle must present to the appropriate customs officer the vehicle and a document describing such vehicle. States that customs officers may cooperate or exchange information (either before or after exportation or importation) with respect to motor vehicles, off-highway mobile equipment, vessels, or aircraft with any Federal, State, local, and foreign governmental authorities engaged in theft prevention. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act to provide that bicycle component parts shall not be exempt under the customs exemption provided by such Act unless the parts are re-exported from the United States. Exempts from State and local taxation: (1) tangible personal property imported from outside the United States and held in a foreign-trade zone for certain purposes; and (2) tangible personal property produced in the United States and held in a zone for exportation. Provides duty-free treatment to a pipe organ for use by a named university. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reliquidate as duty-free specified entries covering scientific equipment for a named cancer hospital.
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Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 98-573.
Became Public Law No: 98-573.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 386 - 1 (Record Vote No: 454).
House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 386 - 1 (Record Vote No: 454).
Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.
Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate disagreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment. By Voice Vote.
Senate disagreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment. By Voice Vote.
Senate agreed to request for conference. Appointed conferees. Dole; Packwood; Roth; Danforth; Long; Bentsen; Matsunaga.
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conference report filed: Conference Report 98-1156 Filed in House.
Conference Report 98-1156 Filed in House.
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Conference held.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Concurred in Senate Amendments with an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute Consisting of the Texts of the Following Bills: H.R.2848, H.R.3795, H.R.4784, H.R.4901, H.R.5188, H.R.5377, H.R.6023, H.R.6064, and H.R.6301.
House Concurred in Senate Amendments with an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute Consisting of the Texts of the Following Bills: H.R.2848, H.R.3795, H.R.4784, H.R.4901, H.R.5188, H.R.5377, H.R.6023, H.R.6064, and H.R.6301.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Agreed to the Senate Amendment to the Title.
House Agreed to the Senate Amendment to the Title.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Insisted on its Amendments.
House Insisted on its Amendments.
House Requested a Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Rostenkowski, Gibbons, Jones (OK), Jenkins, Downey, Pease, Hance, Conable, Vander Jagt, Archer, Frenzel, Dingell, Florio, Broyhill, Bonker, Mica, Roth.
Title amended by Unanimous Consent.
Considered by Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 96-0. Record Vote No: 245.
Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 96-0. Record Vote No: 245.
Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Dole; Packwood; Roth; Danforth; Long; Bentsen; Matsunaga.
Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 559.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Considered by Senate.
Amendment SP4265 reproposed by unanimous consent.
Considered by Senate.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Committee on Finance. Reported to Senate by Senator Dole with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 98-308.
Committee on Finance. Reported to Senate by Senator Dole with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 98-308.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 559.
Committee on Finance. Ordered to be reported in lieu of S. 702, S. 756, S. 907, S. 1423, S. 847, S. 1364, S. 1372, S. 1266, S. 1442, S. 1480, S. 1505, S. 906, S. 583, S. 1409, S. 1399, S. 1411, S. 1406, S. 1486 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Finance incorporated provisions of related measures S. 221, S. 1123, S. 1141, S. 1158, S. 1184, S. 1265, S. 1476, S. 1477, S. 1478, S. 1481, S. 1482, S. 1483, S. 1484, S. 1485, S. 1524, S. 1542, S. 1636, S. 1759, S. 1771, S. 1808, S. 1845, S. 1853, H.J.RES. 290, S. 144, S. 1940 in reported measure.
Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, International Trade Commission, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Treasury Department, State Department, Commerce Department, Agriculture Department.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 368 - 43 (Record Vote No: 225).
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 368 - 43 (Record Vote No: 225).
Reported to House by House Committee on Ways and Means. Report No: 98-267.
Reported to House by House Committee on Ways and Means. Report No: 98-267.
Placed on Union Calendar No: 172.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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