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HR 3050 104th Congress House Foreign Trade and International Finance Agriculture and Food Agriculture in foreign trade Animals Congress Congressional oversight Congressional reporting requirements EEC countries Europe Export controls Food safety Hormones Import restrictions Livestock Meat Nontariff trade barriers

To prohibit imports into the United States of meat products from the European Union until certain unfair trade barriers are removed, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 7, 1996 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 18, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Mar 7, 1996
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 7, 1996
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E310)
Mar 7, 1996
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Declares that it is U.S. policy that: (1) the European Union's prohibition on the importation into European Union (E.U.) member states of meat from animals treated with hormones and the European Community's Third Country Meat Directive are nontariff trade barriers; and (2) it is in the public interest to remove such barriers to exports of U.S. meat products.

Directs the President to prohibit the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption, into the customs territory of the United States of all meat products of E.U. member states. Declares that such prohibition shall remain in effect until the Secretary of Agriculture and the United States Trade Representative have submitted to the Congress their joint determination that the E.U. has removed such prohibition, and that U.S. meat products are permitted access to their markets.

What's happening now March 18, 1996

Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2