Residue Entries and Streamlining Trade Act

Residue Entries and Streamlining Trade Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to exempt from the U.S. customs laws the importation of instruments of international traffic (certain reusable containers, but excluding communications satellites) containing de minimis residual matter.

Defines the term "de minimis residual matter" to mean material remaining in the container after its contents have been unloaded before it is either refilled or cleaned.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2806 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2806

To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that importation of certain 
containers containing de minimis residual matter shall be excepted from 
                 the Customs laws of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2013

Mr. Marchant (for himself and Mr. Kind) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that importation of certain 
containers containing de minimis residual matter shall be excepted from 
                 the Customs laws of the United States.

    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 ``Residue Entries and Streamlining 
Trade Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN CONTAINERS CONTAINING DE MINIMIS 
              RESIDUAL MATTER TO BE EXCEPTED FROM THE CUSTOMS LAWS OF 
              THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) In General.--Section 322(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
U.S.C. 1322(a)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(a)'' and inserting ``(a)(1)'';
            (2) by inserting after ``other instruments of international 
        traffic'' the following: ``, including instruments of 
        international traffic containing de minimis residual matter''; 
        and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) In this subsection, the term `de minimis residual matter' 
means material remaining in an instrument of international traffic 
after its contents have been unloaded to the maximum extent practicable 
and before the instrument of international traffic is either refilled 
or cleaned.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) take 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and apply with respect 
to the importation of instruments of international traffic containing 
de minimis residual matter on or after such date of enactment.
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