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HCONRES 20 114th Congress House Foreign Trade and International Finance Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Agricultural trade Congressional oversight Free trade and trade barriers Trade agreements and negotiations

Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.

Introduced: February 27, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Passed Senate
Mar 9, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Feb 27, 2015
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 27, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should seek through negotiated agreements under the auspices of the World Trade Organization the elimination of all direct and indirect subsidies benefitting the production or export of sugar by any foreign country that: (1) exported more than 200,000 metric tons of sugar during 2014, or (2) has in effect a free trade agreement with the United States.

Urges the President to: (1) report to Congress detailed information about how any of such countries has eliminated such subsidies, and (2) then propose legislation to implement a "zero for zero" sugar subsidy policy.

What's happening now March 9, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 2 Republican 2
R
Moolenaar, John R.
Michigan · Jun 8, 2015
 D
Frankel, Lois
Florida · Feb 27, 2015
 R
Hudson, Richard
North Carolina · Feb 27, 2015
THORNBERRY, WILLIAM
· Feb 27, 2015
 D
Wilson, Frederica S.
Florida · Feb 27, 2015
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 20: Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HCONRES-20/
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"H. Con. Res. 20: Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HCONRES-20/.
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H. Con. Res. 20, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HCONRES-20/.
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[H. Con. Res. 20: Expressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.](https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HCONRES-20/)
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