S. 743 119th Congress Senate

Ag Disputes Act

Official title: A bill to require the establishment of a joint task force to identify and eliminate barriers to agriculture exports of the United States.

Introduced: February 26, 2025 Introduced by: Bill Cassidy Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov

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Free trade and trade barriersIndia

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Feb 26, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Feb 26, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Votes taken on this bill 4

Date	Chamber	What was voted on	Result	Yes–No
May 6, 2013	Senate · vote #113	On Passage of the Bill S. 743	Passed	69–27	See who voted →
Apr 25, 2013	Senate · vote #111	On the Cloture Motion S. 743	Agreed To	63–30	See who voted →
Apr 24, 2013	Senate · vote #110	On the Motion to Proceed S. 743	Agreed To	74–23	See who voted →
Apr 22, 2013	Senate · vote #107	On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 743	Agreed To	74–20	See who voted →

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Prioritizing Offensive Agricultural Disputes and Enforcement Act or the Ag Disputes Act

This bill establishes a joint task force to identify and address trade barriers to U.S. agricultural exports.

Specifically, the bill directs the President to establish the Agricultural Trade Enforcement Task Force. Members of this task force include employees of the Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

The bill requires the task force to (1) identify trade barriers to U.S. agricultural exports that are vulnerable to dispute settlement under the World Trade Organization (WTO) or other trade agreements to which the United States is a party, (2) develop and implement a strategy for enforcing violations of trade agreements related to those trade barriers, (3) identify like-minded trading partners that could act as complainants on disputes relating to specific trade barriers that are systemically or economically important to the United States, and (4) submit periodic reports to Congress.

In its first report, the task force must include a plan for filing a request for consultations under the WTO with respect to agricultural price supports implemented by the Indian government.

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Finance Committee
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Lobbying activity 7

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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Bodies those filers lobbied

Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
7 filings
Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
7 filings
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
7 filings
Federal Maritime Commission
7 filings
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
7 filings
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
7 filings
SENATE
7 filings
State, Dept of (DOS)
7 filings

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Cosponsors 5