Handel międzynarodowy · 21.05.2002

Request for Information Concerning Draft Miscellaneous Tariff Legislation

The United States International Trade Commission is seeking non-confidential general information from interested parties, including proponents, on approximately 400 pending bills proposing duty suspensions or other tariff modifications on imported goods, from among the total number of such bills already introduced (over 600). The Commission regularly provides this information to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Finance of the Senate, based on longstanding requests from the two Committees. These bills are under consideration for possible enactment later this year; many of them are covered by a recent press release issued by the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means (see http:// waysandmeans.house.gov/trade/107cong/tr-9.htm). Because of the large number of bills introduced in recent weeks and the likely scheduling of Congressional proceedings for this summer, the normal Commission process for collecting and compiling this information is being suspended for the remainder of the 107th Congress, based on communications with the staffs of the two Committees. This notice is intended to advise interested parties of t