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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-895
STOP CHINA'S EXPLOITATION OF CONGOLESE CHILDREN
AND ADULT FORCED LABOR THROUGH COBALT MINING
ACT
DECEMBER 17, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. SMITH of Missouri, from the Committee on Ways and Means,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 7981]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 7981) to ensure that goods made using or containing co-
balt extracted or processed with the use of child or forced labor in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo do not enter the United
States market, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ............................................................... 3
A. Purpose and Sum m ary ..................................................................... 3
B. Background and Need for Legislation .................... 3
C. Legislative H istory ........................................................................... . 4
D . Designated H earing .......................................................................... 4
II. EXPLANATION OF THE BILL .................................................................. 4
A. Extending Limits of U.S. Customs Waters Act ..............................
III. VOTE OF THE COM M ITTEE ..................................................................... 6
IV. BUDGET EFFECTS OF THE BILL ............................................................ 6
A. Committee Estimate of Budgetary Effects .................. 6
B. Statement Regarding New Budget Authority and Tax Expendi-
tures Budget Authority .................................................................. 6
V. Cost Estimate Prepared by the Congressional Budget Office .................... 6
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