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S 1810 99th Congress Senate Foreign Trade and International Finance Agriculture and Rural Affairs Agriculture in foreign trade Development credit institutions Exports Farm produce Finance and Financial Sector Foreign Trade and Investments International agencies Subsidies

A bill to require United States representatives to international financial institutions to oppose assistance by such institutions for the production of agricultural commodities in competition with United States produced agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 30, 1985 See on congress.gov
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Oct 30, 1985
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Oct 30, 1985
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of specified development credit institutions to oppose any aid by such institutions for the production of any agricultural commodity for export if: (1) such commodity is in surplus on world markets; and (2) the export of such commodity would cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of the same or a similar competing commodity. Limits the amount of U.S. payment to any capital expansion such institution based upon the amount of assistance furnished by such institution for the production of surplus agricultural commodities that are injurious to U.S. producers or for the subsidization of the export of agricultural commodities from certain countries.

What's happening now October 30, 1985

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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