A bill to amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 in order to offset the injurious effect of substandard foreign wages on United States producers.

Summary

Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to allow a person to allege in a petition initiating a countervailing duty investigation that the imported articles to be investigated have been manufactured by foreign workers receiving substandard hourly wages. Requires the administering authority to make certain determinations regarding any: (1) subsidy provided such imported articles; and (2) substandard hourly wages paid to foreign workers who produce such imported articles. Requires such determinations to include an estimate of the hourly wage differential. Directs the administering authority to increase the amount of a countervailing duty imposed on such imported article by an amount sufficient to offset the hourly wage differential. Provides for the periodic administrative review of determinations made under this Act.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 23 April 1986

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.