S. 577 · 116th Congress
Import Tax Relief Act of 2019
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This bill requires the President to establish a process by which certain articles imported from China may be excluded from duties.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Feb 27, 2019
Import Tax Relief Act of 2019
This bill requires the President to establish a process by which certain articles imported from China may be excluded from duties.
Specifically, the bill requires the creation of a process whereby U.S. entities may request that articles imported from China be excluded from duties imposed under the Trade Act of 1974. Such an exclusion must be based on a determination that the article can easily be excluded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and that (1) the article is not commercially available outside of China or produced at a cost-competitive price, (2) a duty on the article would increase consumer prices for everyday items consumed by low- or middle-income families in the United States, or (3) the article does not directly benefit from nonmarket-based policies of China.
Further, this exclusion applies retroactively to recently imported articles that would have been subject to a lower rate under this bill.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Import Tax Relief Act of 2019
Latest action (Feb 27, 2019): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 27, 2019
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.