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SRES 179 101th Congress Senate Foreign Trade and International Finance Agriculture in foreign trade Carcinogens Citrus fruits Food contamination Nontariff trade barriers Pesticide residues in food South Korea

A resolution to express the sense of the Senate regarding the testing of United States agricultural products imported by our trading partners of potentially harmful chemicals.

Introduced: September 18, 1989 See on congress.gov
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Sep 18, 1989
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 18, 1989
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) South Korea has erected an unfair trade barrier against U.S. citrus imports under the guise of a health (Alar) concern; (2) the South Korean Government should condemn false claims of Alar in U.S. grapefruits; (3) the South Korean Government should accept the use of standardized chemical residue tests; and (4) the United States will not tolerate the practice of erecting agricultural trade barriers disguised as health claims.

What's happening now September 18, 1989

Referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Sep 18, 1989
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. Res. 179: A resolution to express the sense of the Senate regarding the testing of United States agricultural products imported by our trading partners of potentially harmful chemicals.. 101st Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/101-SRES-179/
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"S. Res. 179: A resolution to express the sense of the Senate regarding the testing of United States agricultural products imported by our trading partners of potentially harmful chemicals.." 101st Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/101-SRES-179/.
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S. Res. 179, 101st Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/101-SRES-179/.
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