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SCONRES 27 100th Congress Senate Foreign Trade and International Finance Agriculture and Rural Affairs Agriculture in foreign trade Canada Countervailing duties Foreign Trade and Investments Imports Subsidies Tariff Trade agreements

A concurrent resolution stating the sense of the Senate that the U. S. Department of Commerce and Special Trade Representative should initiate investigations of Canadian agricultural subsidies.

Introduced: March 6, 1987 See on congress.gov
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 30, 1987
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Mar 30, 1987
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 26, 1987
Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title and an amended preamble by Yea-Nay Vote. 99-0. Record Vote No: 40.
Mar 26, 1987
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title and an amended preamble by Yea-Nay Vote. 99-0. Record Vote No: 40.
Mar 26, 1987
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Mar 23, 1987
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 66.
Mar 23, 1987
Committee on Finance. Reported to Senate by Senator Bentsen with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title and an amended preamble. Without written report.
Mar 18, 1987
Committee on Finance. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Mar 6, 1987
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 6, 1987
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should direct: (1) the Secretary of Commerce to initiate a Countervailing Duty Investigation under the Tariff Act of 1930 of subsidized agricultural imports from Canada which benefit from Canadian price support programs; and/or (2) the U.S. Trade Representative to initiate an investigation under the Trade Act of 1974 to determine whether agriculture programs operated by the Canadian federal and provincial governments constitute an unfair trade practice.

What's happening now March 30, 1987

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

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