A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to clarify the definitions of domestic industry and like articles in certain investigations involving perishable agricultural products, and for other purposes.

Summary

Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise the definition of "domestic industry" and "like or directly competitive article" with respect to investigations by the International Trade Commission (ITC) to determine whether perishable agricultural products are being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to be a substantial cause (or threat) of serious injury to the domestic industry producing an article like or directly competitive with such imported products. Authorizes the ITC, in the case of one or more domestic producers who produce a like or directly competitive perishable agricultural product during a particular growing season, to limit the domestic industry to those producers if they sell all or almost all of their production of the article in that growing season and the demand for the article is not supplied, to any substantial degree, by other domestic producers of the article who produce the article in a different growing season. Requires the ITC, with respect to perishable agricultural products, to limit provisional import relief to imported articles that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, during the same growing season as the like or directly competitive product.

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• Engrossed in Senate (text)

  Engrossed in Senate · EN · 26 January 1996

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• Engrossed in Senate (PDF)

  Engrossed in Senate · EN · 26 January 1996

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 11 December 1995

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 11 December 1995

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 11 December 1995

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