PUBLIC LAW 106-476—NOV. 9, 2000
114 STAT. 2173
process by which materials are recovered from imported merchandise or from an article manufactured from imported merchandise.
In determining the amount of duties to be refunded as drawback
to a claimgint under this subsection, the value of recovered materials
(including the value of any tax benefit or royalty payment) that
accrues to the drawback claimant shall be deducted from the value
of the imported merchandise that is destroyed, or from the value
of the merchandise used, or designated as used, in the manufacture
of the article.".
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. —The amendment made by this section 19 USC 1313
shall apply to drawback claims filed on or after the date of the note.
enactment of this Act.
SEC. 1463. PRESERVATION OF CERTAIN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 31 USC 1113
Section 3003(a)(1) of the Federal Reports Elimination and
Sunset Act of 1995 (31 U.S.C. 1113 note) does not apply to any
report required to be submitted under any of the following provisions of law:
(1) Section 163 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2213).
(2) Section 181 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2241).
SEC. 1464. IMPORTATION OF GUM ARABIC.
(a) FINDINGS.— The Congress finds the following:
(1) The Republic of the Sudan produces 60 percent of
the world's supply of gum arable in raw form and has a virtual
monopoly on the world's supply of the highest grade of gum
arable.
(2) The President imposed comprehensive sanctions against
Sudan on November 3, 1997, under Executive Order No. 13067.
(3) The Secretary of the Treasury, upon recommendation
of the Secretary of State, has issued limited licenses each
year since the imposition of sanctions against Sudan under
Executive Order No. 13067 to permit United States gum arable
processors to import gum arable in raw form from Sudan due
to a lack of alternative sources in other countries.
(4) The United States gum arable processing industry consists of three small companies whose existence is threatened
by the comprehensive sanctions in effect against Sudan.
(5) The United States gum arable processing industry is
working with the United States Agency for International
Development to develop alternative sources of gum arable in
raw form in countries that are not subject to sanctions, but
alternative sources of the highest grade of gum arable in raw
form are not currently available.
(b) LICENSE APPLICATIONS TO IMPORT GUM ARABIC FROM
SUDAN. —Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary
of the Treasury and the Secretary of State, in consultation with
the Secretary of Commerce and the heads of other appropriate
agencies—
(1) shall consider promptly any license application by a
United States gum arable processor to import gum arable in
raw form from the Republic of the Sudan; and
(2) in reviewing such license applications by United States
gum arable processors, shall consider whether adequate
commercial quantities of the highest grade of gum arable in
raw form are available from countries not subject to United
• States sanctions in order to allow such United States processors
of gum arable to remain in business.
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