Full Text
Official text as published. Use Ctrl+F / Cmd+F to search within the document.
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5613 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 5613
To increase the rate of duty on shrimp originating from Ecuador, and
for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 30, 2026
Mrs. Hyde-Smith introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Finance
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To increase the rate of duty on shrimp originating from Ecuador, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Ecuador Shrimp Tariff Act''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) GATT 1947; gatt 1994.--The terms ``GATT 1947'' and
``GATT 1994'' have the meanings given those terms in section 2
of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3501).
(2) HTS.--The term ``HTS'' means the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States.
(3) Schedule of concessions.--The term ``Schedule of
Concessions'' means Schedule XX-United States of America
annexed to the Marrakesh Protocol to the GATT 1994.
SEC. 3. PHASE-IN OF DUTY INCREASE FOR SHRIMP FROM ECUADOR.
(a) Calendar Year 2027.--Effective on January 1, 2027, subheadings
0306.16.00, 0306.17.00, 0306.35, 0306.36, 0306.95, 1605.21, and 1605.29
of the HTS shall be applied and administered with respect to imports
from Ecuador--
(1) in the column 1 general rate of duty column, by
substituting ``10%'' for the rate of duty otherwise applicable;
and
(2) in the column 2 rate of duty column, by substituting
``25 cents/kg'' for the rate of duty otherwise applicable.
(b) Calendar Year 2028.--Effective on January 1, 2028, subheadings
0306.16.00, 0306.17.00, 0306.35, 0306.36, 0306.95, 1605.21, and 1605.29
of the HTS shall be applied and administered with respect to imports
from Ecuador--
(1) in the column 1 general rate of duty column, by
substituting ``20%'' for the rate of duty otherwise applicable;
and
(2) in the column 2 rate of duty column, by substituting
``50 cents/kg'' for the rate of duty otherwise applicable.
(c) Calendar Year 2029 and Thereafter.--Effective on January 1,
2029, subheadings 0306.16.00, 0306.17.00, 0306.35, 0306.36, 0306.95,
1605.21, and 1605.29 of the HTS shall be applied and administered with
respect to imports from Ecuador--
(1) in the column 1 general rate of duty column, by
substituting ``40%'' for the rate of duty otherwise applicable;
and
(2) in the column 2 rate of duty column, by substituting
``$1/kg'' for the rate of duty otherwise applicable.
SEC. 4. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING FOR COOKED SHRIMP AND CRAWFISH.
(a) In General.--Section 281(1) of the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1638(1)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (A)(vi), by striking ``and''; and
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting before the period at
the end the following: ``, except if the processed food item is
whole cooked shrimp, whole cooked crawfish, cooked shrimp
sections, or cooked crawfish sections''.
(b) Modification of Definition of Processed Food Item.--The
Secretary of Agriculture shall modify section 60.119 of title 7, Code
of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), to ensure that
cooked shrimp, cooked crawfish, cooked shrimp sections, and cooked
crawfish sections are not considered processed food items for purposes
of that section.
SEC. 5. ADDITIONAL DUTY ON SHRIMP.
(a) In General.--The President shall impose a duty on imports of
shrimp under subheadings 0306.16.00, 0306.17.00, 0306.35, 0306.36,
0306.95, 1605.21, and 1605.29 of the HTS in an amount equal to $0.10
per kilogram.
(b) Use of Amounts.--The President shall use an amount equal to the
amount received by the United States pursuant to duties under
subsection (a) to conduct inspections of shrimp and catfish imported
into the United States.
SEC. 6. TREATMENT OF DUTIES.
Duties under this Act are to be imposed in addition to any duty
imposed under any other provision of law or pursuant to any other
authority.
SEC. 7. MODIFICATION OF SCHEDULE OF CONCESSIONS TO GATT 1994.
With due regard for the international obligations of the United
States, particularly Article XXXVIII of the GATT 1947 requiring any
suspension of trade agreement concessions to be made on a most-favored
nation basis, the United States Trade Representative shall take the
necessary steps to modify the Schedule of Concessions to accommodate
the increase in the rate of duty applicable to shrimp from Ecuador
under section 3 and the additional increase under section 5.
<all>