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106th Congress > House > Vote 535

Date: October 26, 1999

Result: 423-1 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 537

Vote Subject Matter: Government Management / Budget Special Interest

Sponsor: COX, Charles Christopher (R-CA)

Bill number: HCONRES190

Question: Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended

Description: Urging the United States to seek a global consensus supporting a moratorium on tariffs and on special multiple, and discriminatory taxation of electronic commerce.

Bill summary: Urges the President to: (1) seek a global consensus supporting a permanent international ban on tariffs on electronic commerce, including a ban on bit, multiple, and discriminatory taxation of electronic commerce and the Internet; (2) instruct the U.S. delegation to the November 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Seattle, Washington, to seek to make permanent the moratorium on tariffs on electronic transmissions adopted by the WTO in May 1998; (3) seek adoption by the (...show more) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development of an international ban on bit, multiple, and discriminatory taxation of electronic commerce and the Internet; and (4) oppose any proposal by any country, the United Nations, or any other multilateral organization to establish a "bit tax" on electronic transmissions.

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Bill titles: Urging the United States to seek a global consensus supporting a moratorium on tariffs and on special, multiple, and discriminatory taxation of electronic commerce.

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