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
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
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
Plain-English summary
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
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Committees of jurisdiction
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