7 U.S.C. § 5674 — Trade consultations concerning imports
submitted 36 years ago by Pub. L. 95-501 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 289 words · no verdicts yet
This section requires consultations before changing agricultural import restrictions and monitoring of sanitary measures.
(a) Before relaxing or removing an agricultural-import restriction, the Secretary* must require consultation between the Service* Administrator and appropriate Agriculture Department agency and office heads, including the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Administrator. (b) The Secretary must consult the United States* Trade Representative first. (c) The Secretary must monitor World Trade Organization members’ compliance with the Agreement on Agriculture’s sanitary and phytosanitary measures. If the Secretary has reason to believe a country may have failed to meet a commitment in a way that harms United States agricultural exports, the Secretary must (1) give the Trade Representative information about the circumstances and (2) for circumstances considered to have a continuing harmful effect, report to the listed House and Senate committees (A) that the country may have failed to meet the commitments and (B) any notice given to the Trade Representative.
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*.
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.
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—
provide such information to the United States Trade Representative of the circumstances surrounding the matter arising under this subsection; and
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—
that a country may have failed to meet the sanitary and phytosanitary commitments; and
any notice given by the Secretary to the United States Trade Representative.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3685; amended Pub. L. 104–127, title II, § 242(b), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 965.)
- 1990Enacted · Pub. L. 95-501 · 104 Stat. 3685
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-127 · 110 Stat. 965
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 95-501 on 1990-11-28.
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