H.R.997: To amend General Note 3(a)(iv) of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to deny special tariff treatment to goods of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands unless certain conditions are met, to require the Secretary of Labor to assign a full-time resident compliance officer to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to subject goods imported from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to column one rates of the tariff schedule (and deny them labeling as having been manufactured in the United States) unless the Commonwealth establishes that: (1) the labor rate paid to the workers producing such goods is greater than or equal to the prevailing U.S. minimum wage rate; and (2) not less than...

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