S 650
102th Congress
Senate
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade policy
Restrictive trade practices
A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to strengthen the United States' ability to respond to foreign trade practices that threaten United States commerce.
Introduced: March 13, 1991
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 13, 1991
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 13, 1991
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative to take specified trade action, and in certain cases has discretionary authority to take such action, against a foreign country whose act, policy, or practice threatens to burden or restrict U.S. commerce.
Declares that an act, policy, or practice that threatens to burden or restrict U.S. commerce is an act, policy, or practice that does not currently burden or restrict such commerce, but, if not corrected, is reasonably expected to burden or restrict it.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1