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HR 4394 101th Congress House Agriculture and Food Agricultural economics Agricultural subsidies Agriculture in foreign trade Congressional reporting requirements Export subsidies Exports Food relief Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign trade promotion International relief Nontariff trade barriers Trade negotiations

Value-Added Agricultural Trade Act of 1990

Introduced: March 27, 1990 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 8 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 12, 1990
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.
Mar 29, 1990
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Mar 29, 1990
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Mar 29, 1990
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture.
Mar 27, 1990
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Mar 27, 1990
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 27, 1990
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Mar 27, 1990
Introduced in House
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Value-Added Agricultural Trade Act of 1990 - Declares that U.S. agricultural export policy shall provide for increased emphasis on sales abroad of U.S. processed, value-added agricultural products due to benefits from such sales to U.S. producers, processors, agricultural-industrial exporters, and the national workforce.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to take specified action aimed at increasing exports of U.S. processed, value-added agricultural products.

Requires the President, in determining the budgets of the Department of Agriculture, to give special consideration to the Secretary's export enhancement funding.

Urges U.S. representatives at General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations to press for elimination or reduction of agricultural export subsidies, tariff and nontariff barriers, unfair practices, and other impediments to sales abroad of U.S. processed, value-added agricultural products. Requires the implementation of available agricultural export assistance programs to offset the adverse effects of such practices on U.S. agricultural products.

Amends the Agricultural Trade and Development Assistance Act of 1954 to require the President to ensure that at least 75 percent of the agricultural commodities distributed for famine relief be in the form of processed or fortified products or bagged commodities.

Authorizes appropriations.

What's happening now April 12, 1990

Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Mar 27, 1990
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