Manufacturers Urge Passage of Miscellaneous Tariff Act

The OMA joined the National Association of Manufacturers and a large number of other organizations wrote members of Congress to urge that they expedite passage of the “Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2017” (H.R. 4318 and S. 2108) to temporarily eliminate out-of-date and distortive taxes on imported products not manufactured or available domestically.

“The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) plays an important role in the operations of domestic manufacturers as it corrects, on a temporary basis, historical distortions in the U.S. tariff code by eliminating border tariffs on imported products for which there is no or insufficient domestic production and availability. Such distortions undermine the competitiveness of manufacturers in the United States by imposing unnecessary costs and, in some cases, imposing a higher cost on manufacturers’ inputs than the competing foreign imported finished product,” wrote the organizations.  12/6/2017