A bill to provide the Secretary of Agriculture with the authority to establish a program to develop, maintain, and expand markets for United States agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.

Summary

Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate and carry out an export expansion program under which commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) are tendered at no cost to U.S. exporters, processors, and foreign purchasers. Requires the Secretary to: (1) ensure that equal treatment is provided to domestic and foreign purchasers and users where the importation of a manufactured product made from agricultural commodities, made available for export under this Act, would place domestic users of such commodities at a competitive disadvantage; (2) ensure that such agricultural commodities are used to encourage increased use of U.S. commodities and to avoid unnecessary market displacement of domestic agricultural commodities; and (3) take reasonable precautions to prevent the resale, transshipment, or any use of such commodities for other than domestic use in the importing country. Requires the Secretary to carry out this program through the CCC.

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Timeline

1. 17 March 1983

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 17 March 1983

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 17 March 1983

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 24 March 1983

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.

   Source: Committee

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 17 March 1983

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Rep. Skelton, Ike [D-MO-4] · D · Sponsor
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• · hsag00 · Standing

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