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HCONRES 40 115th 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: March 23, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Mar 24, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Mar 23, 2017
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.
Mar 23, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should seek the elimination of all subsidies benefiting the production or export of sugar by any foreign country that:

  • exported more than 200,000 metric tons of sugar in 2014, 2015, or 2016, or
  • has in effect a free trade agreement with the United States.

Urges the President to:

  • report to Congress detailed information about how any of such country has eliminated such subsidies; and
  • propose legislation to implement U.S. sugar policy reforms.
What's happening now March 24, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 1 Republican 3
R
Wilson, Joe
South Carolina · Nov 1, 2017
 R
Higgins, Clay
Louisiana · Mar 28, 2017
Abraham, Ralph
· Mar 24, 2017
 R
Cramer, Kevin
North Dakota · Mar 23, 2017
 D
Frankel, Lois
Florida · Mar 23, 2017
Graves, Garret
· Mar 23, 2017
Mitchell, Paul
· Mar 23, 2017
Rooney, Thomas
· Mar 23, 2017
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 40: 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.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HCONRES-40/
MLA
"H. Con. Res. 40: 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.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HCONRES-40/.
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H. Con. Res. 40, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HCONRES-40/.
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[H. Con. Res. 40: 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/115-HCONRES-40/)
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