S 1779
112th Congress
Senate
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Free trade and trade barriers
Trade agreements and negotiations
A bill to require the United States Trade Representative to notify the World Trade Organization if any member of the World Trade Organization fails during 2 consecutive years to disclose subsidies under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and for other purposes.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 2, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Nov 2, 2011
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Directs the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify and report to the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures of the World Trade Organization (WTO) any WTO member with which this country maintains a material and persistent trade deficit that, for two consecutive years, fails to submit a notification of subsidies under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, or omits information or includes inaccurate information in a notification material to the totality of the member's subsidies.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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