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S 355 113th Congress Senate

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…

Official title: 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 co… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: 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.

Introduced: February 14, 2013 Introduced by: Merkley, Jeff Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsFree trade and trade barriersTrade agreements and negotiations
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Feb 14, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 14, 2013
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 Latest action February 14, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

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 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
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Barrasso, John
Wyoming · Feb 14, 2013
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Schumer, Charles E.
New York · Feb 14, 2013
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 355: 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.. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-355/
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"S. 355: 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.." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-355/.
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S. 355, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-355/.
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[S. 355: 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.](https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-355/)
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