19 U.S.C. § 3602 — Special agricultural safeguard authority

(a) Determination of trigger levels. Consistent with Article 5 as the President interprets it, the President must publish in the Federal Register (1) the list of special safeguard agricultural goods by the date the WTO Agreement enters into force for the United States and (2) for each good, (A) the Article 5(1)(a) annual trigger level, (B) the Article 5(1)(b) trigger price, and (C) the relevant period. (b) Determination of safeguard. If the President determines that it is appropriate to impose (1) the Article 5(1)(b) price safeguard or (2) the Article 5(1)(a) volume safeguard, the President must impose the safeguard and must determine the duty amount, duration, and other terms consistently with Article 5 as the President determines it. (c) Imposition. The President must direct the Treasury Secretary to impose the duty on goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for United States consumption. (d) No simultaneous safeguard. The duty may not operate while the good is subject to action proclaimed under section 2252 or 2253. (e)(1) The President must exempt a good qualifying as a section 4531-originating good of a USMCA country receiving preferential tariff treatment under USMCA. (2) “Preferential tariff treatment,” “USMCA,” and “USMCA country” have section 4502 meanings. (f) The Agriculture Secretary advises the President. (g) The section ends when the President determines Article 5’s special safeguards no longer apply to the United States. (h) “Article 5” means Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture described in section 3511(d)(2); “relevant period” means the period the President determines applies to a good; and “special safeguard agricultural good” means an agricultural good subject to an additional Article 5 duty.