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Title 7 — Agriculture

Part B · Chapter 87 — Export Promotion

§ 5674. Trade consultations concerning imports

Statutory text

(a)

Consultation between agencies

The Secretary shall require consultation between the Administrator of the Service and the heads of other appropriate agencies and offices of the Department of Agriculture, including the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, prior to relaxing or removing any restriction on the importation of any agricultural commodity into the United States.

(b)

Consultation with Trade Representative

The Secretary shall consult with the United States Trade Representative prior to relaxing or removing any restriction on the importation of any agricultural commodity or a product thereof into the United States.

(c)

Monitoring compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary measures

The Secretary shall monitor the compliance of World Trade Organization member countries with the sanitary and phytosanitary measures of the Agreement on Agriculture of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. If the Secretary has reason to believe that any country may have failed to meet the commitment on sanitary and phytosanitary measures under the Agreement in a manner that adversely impacts the exports of a United States agricultural commodity, the Secretary shall—

(1)

provide such information to the United States Trade Representative of the circumstances surrounding the matter arising under this subsection; and

(2)

with respect to any such circumstances that the Secretary considers to have a continuing adverse effect on United States agricultural exports, report to the Committee on Agriculture, and the Committee on Ways and Means, of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Committee on Finance, of the Senate—

(A)

that a country may have failed to meet the sanitary and phytosanitary commitments; and

(B)

any notice given by the Secretary to the United States Trade Representative.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Agricultural Trade Act of 1978

    Pub. L. 95–501 title IV § 414 · 92 Stat. 1685

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 5674

    Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3685

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3685

  2. Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

    Pub. L. 104–127 title II § 242(b) · 110 Stat. 888

    Added · 7 U.S.C. § 5674(c)

    Pub. L. 104–127 added subsec. (c)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–127 added subsec. (c).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (b) Monitoring Compliance With Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.— Section 414 of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5674) is amended by adding at the end the following: “(c) Monitoring Compliance With Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.— The Secretary shall monitor the compliance of World Trade Organization member countries with the sanitary and phytosanitary measures of the Agreement on Agriculture of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. If the Secretary has reason to believe that any country may have failed to meet the commitment on sanitary and phytosanitary measures under the Agreement in a manner that adversely impacts the exports of a United States agricultural commodity, the Secretary shall— “(1) provide such information to the United States Trade Representative of the circumstances surrounding the matter arising under this subsection; and “(2) with respect to any such circumstances that the Secretary Reports. considers to have a continuing adverse effect on United States agricultural exports, report to the Committee on Agriculture, and the Committee on Ways and Means, of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Committee on Finance, of the Senate— “(A) that a country may have failed to meet the sanitary and phytosanitary commitments; and “(B) any notice given by the Secretary to the United States Trade Representative.”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1996—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–127 added subsec. (c).

Credits

1990–1996 · 2 acts
  1. 1990Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, , 104 Stat. 3685
  2. 1996amended Pub. L. 104–127, title II, § 242(b), , 110 Stat. 965.
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(Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, , 104 Stat. 3685; amended Pub. L. 104–127, title II, § 242(b), , 110 Stat. 965.)

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