7 U.S.C. § 1748 — Annual reports by agricultural attachés

(a) The Secretary must require Agriculture Department officers and employees, including those abroad, to report yearly on: (1) the nature and extent of foreign programs supporting agricultural exports directly or indirectly; other practices that may block United States agricultural goods; and, when practical, average foreign prices and production costs for comparable goods; and (2) opportunities to export United States agricultural goods there. (b) The Secretary must yearly compile the reports by country and, as appropriate, by commodity for exports hampered by unfair practices; when practical compare United States and importing-country prices and production costs for the prior crop year; consult the agricultural technical advisory committees and rank trade barriers by commodity group; list actions taken to reduce or remove them; and by January 15 make the compilation available to Congress, the agricultural policy advisory committee, and other interested parties. (c) At least yearly, the Secretary and United States Trade Representative must convene the committees to develop recommendations for government and private industry to reduce or remove reported barriers or distortions and expand reported United States export opportunities.