A bill to maintain and expand the steel import licensing and monitoring program.

Declares that the steel import licensing and monitoring program established by the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Commerce shall remain in effect and be established by the Secretary of Commerce as a permanent program.

Requires the Secretaries to expand the program to include all iron and steel, and all articles of iron and steel, specified in this Act.

Requires release of the import and licensing data made available to the public as part of this program, based upon classifications at the tenth digit level of the Harmonized Schedule of the United States.

Grants the Secretaries authority to maintain the program and to expand it as necessary and appropriate in accordance with this Act.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 358 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 358

   To maintain and expand the steel import licensing and monitoring 
                                program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 10, 2005

 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Specter, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. 
   Cochran, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Bayh, and Mr. Sarbanes) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To maintain and expand the steel import licensing and monitoring 
                                program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MAINTENANCE AND EXPANSION OF STEEL IMPORT LICENSING AND 
              MONITORING PROGRAM.

    (a) Maintenance of Program.--The steel import licensing and 
monitoring program established by the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
Secretary of Commerce pursuant to the Memorandum signed by the 
President on March 5, 2002 (67 Fed. Reg. 10593 through 10597) (pursuant 
to the authority of the President under section 203(g) of the Trade Act 
of 1974), shall, notwithstanding any other action taken by the 
President under section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974 concerning the 
steel products described in the Memorandum, remain in effect and be 
established by the Secretary of Commerce as a permanent program.
    (b) Expansion of Program.--
            (1) In general.--In carrying out the program in accordance 
        with subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
        Secretary of Commerce shall expand the program to include all 
        iron and steel, and all articles of iron or steel, described in 
        paragraph (2). The import and licensing data made available to 
        the public as part of this program shall be released based upon 
        classifications at the tenth digit level of the Harmonized 
        Tariff Schedule of the United States.
            (2) Iron and steel described.--The iron and steel, and 
        articles of iron or steel, referred to in subparagraph (A) are 
        the iron and steel, and articles of iron or steel, contained in 
        the following headings and subheadings of the Harmonized Tariff 
        Schedule of the United States:
                    (A) Each of the headings 7206 through 7229 
                (relating to mill products).
                    (B) Each of the headings 7301 through 7307 
                (relating to rails, structurals, pipe and tubes, and 
                fittings and flanges).
                    (C) Heading 7308 (relating to fabricated 
                structurals).
                    (D) Subheading 7310.10.00 (relating to barrels and 
                drums).
                    (E) Heading 7312 (relating to strand and rope).
                    (F) Heading 7313.00.00 (relating to barbed and 
                fence wire).
                    (G) Headings 7314, 7315, and 7317.00 (relating to 
                fabricated wire).
                    (H) Heading 7318 (relating to industrial 
                fasteners).
                    (I) Heading 7326 (relating to fence posts).
    (c) Additional Authority.--The Secretary of the Treasury and the 
Secretary of Commerce are hereby authorized and directed to take such 
actions as are necessary--
            (1) to maintain the program described in subsection (a) in 
        accordance with such subsection; and
            (2) to expand, as necessary and appropriate, such program 
        in accordance with subsection (b).
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