To provide for a reduction in the volume of steel imports, and to establish a steel import notification and monitoring program.

Summary

Directs the President to impose quotas, tariff surcharges, or negotiate enforceable voluntary export restraint agreements in order to ensure that the volume of imported steel products (semifinished, plates, sheets and strips, wire rods, wire and wire products, rail type products, bars, structural shapes and units, pipes and tubes, iron ore, and coke products) during any month does not exceed the average volume of imported steel for the 36-month period preceding July 1997. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Commerce to implement a program for administering and enforcing the restraints on such imports. Authorizes the Customs Service to refuse entry into the U.S. customs territory for a three year period of any steel products that exceed the allowable levels of such products. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish and implement a steel import notification and monitoring program. Requires any person who intends to import steel products into the United States to first obtain an import notification certificate. Sets forth specified import notification certificate requirements. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to publish on a weekly basis through the Internet certain information obtained from steel import notification certificate applications regarding imported steel, including country of origin, the port of entry, quantity, value of steel imported, single producer or exporter countries, and whether such imports are entered into a bonded warehouse or foreign trade zone. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to charge reasonable fees to defray the costs of carrying out this Act.

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• Placed on Calendar Senate (text)

  Placed on Calendar Senate · EN · 19 March 1999

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• Placed on Calendar Senate (PDF)

  Placed on Calendar Senate · EN · 19 March 1999

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• Engrossed in House (text)

  Engrossed in House · EN · 17 March 1999

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  Engrossed in House · EN · 17 March 1999

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN · 15 March 1999

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  Reported in House · EN · 15 March 1999

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 4 March 1999

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