To make technical corrections in United States Customs Service regulations regarding the importation of goods bearing foreign owned trademarks or trade names, and for other purposes.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to modify U.S. Customs Service rules regarding restrictions on the importation of gray market articles by providing relief from detention for restricted gray market goods: (1) bearing more than one trademark or trade name; and (2) for which the U.S. owner of any trade mark or trade name appearing on such goods is the same as, a parent or subsidiary of, or party otherwise subject to common ownership or control with, any foreign owner of any other trademark or trade name appearing on such goods.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4816 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4816

    To make technical corrections in United States Customs Service 
 regulations regarding the importation of goods bearing foreign owned 
           trademarks or trade names, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2000

  Mr. Levin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To make technical corrections in United States Customs Service 
 regulations regarding the importation of goods bearing foreign owned 
           trademarks or trade names, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of 
the Treasury, acting through the Commissioner of Customs, shall modify 
Customs Service rules regarding restrictions on importation of gray 
market articles set forth in part 133 of title 19, Code of Federal 
Regulations, by providing relief from detention for restricted gray 
market goods--
            (1) bearing more than one trademark or trade name; and
            (2) for which the United States owner of any trademark or 
        trade name appearing on such goods is the same as, a parent or 
        subsidiary of, or party otherwise subject to common ownership 
        or control with, any foreign owner of any other trademark or 
        trade name appearing on such goods.
    Sec. 2. The effective date of any modification to Customs Service 
rules made pursuant to this Act shall be the date of enactment of this 
Act.
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