A bill to prohibit the Export-Import Bank of the United States from financing the establishment or enhancement of the capacity of a foreign country to produce certain commodities in competition with, or similar to United States-produced commodities.

Summary

Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Bank from extending credit to establish or enhance the capacity of any country other than the United States to produce a commodity for export if: (1) such commodity is or is likely to be surplus on the world market; and (2) the resulting productive capacity will substantially injure U.S. producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity.

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Timeline

1. 18 March 1983

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 18 March 1983

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 23 March 1983

   Committee

   Committee on Banking requested executive comment from Export-Import Bank of the United States.

   Source: Committee

4. 7 April 1983

   Committee

   Committee on Banking received executive comment from Export-Import Bank of the United States.

   Source: Committee

5. 12 April 1983

   Committee

   Committee on Banking requested executive comment from Export-Import Bank of the United States.

   Source: Committee

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 18 March 1983

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. DeConcini, Dennis [D-AZ] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Goldwater, Barry [R-AZ] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Boschwitz, Rudy [R-MN] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Melcher, John [D-MT] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] · D · Sponsor
• · ssbk00 · Standing

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