Sec. 3201. Agricultural trade promotion and facilitation
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Section 203(c) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 ( 7 U.S.C. 5623(c)(3) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: As part of the program established under this subsection, the Secretary shall enter into contracts or other agreements with eligible trade organizations to provide needs assessments, training, and other technical assistance to enhance the capabilities of infrastructure in new and developing foreign markets, including infrastructure relating to cold chain capacity, port improvements, and other developments, to ensure that United States agricultural commodities are not damaged or lost due to deficiencies of such infrastructure.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this paragraph $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2025 through 2029. Amounts authorized to be appropriated under this subparagraph that are not used to carry out this paragraph are authorized to be made available to carry out the program established under this subsection. . Section 203(e)(7) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 ( 7 U.S.C. 5623(e)(7) ) is amended to read as follows: The Secretary, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, shall submit every two years to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report detailing the competitiveness of United States specialty crops.
The report required by subparagraph
(A)shall— identify and analyze acts, policies, or practices of foreign countries that constitute significant barriers to, or distortions of, United States exports of specialty crops, including the imposition of— tariffs (including retaliatory tariffs) or quotas (including tariff-rate quotas); and non-tariff barriers, including technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, import licensing procedures, and subsidies; identify and analyze acts, policies, or practices of foreign countries that enhance the competitiveness of imported specialty crops with domestic specialty crop producers, including— the subsidization of exports from the producing country; and the impact of any lack or circumvention of labor and environmental laws in the producing country; identify and analyze any differences in applicable food safety regulations of foreign countries that may result in imported specialty crops posing a risk to United States consumers; make an estimate— of the impacts on the competitiveness of United States specialty crops of any act, policy, or practice identified under clauses
(i)and (ii); if feasible, of the value of additional specialty crops that would, during the year preceding submission of the report, have been exported from the United States to each foreign country an act, policy, or practice of which is identified under clause
(i)if each such act, policy, or practice of that country did not exist; and if feasible, of the injury caused to domestic specialty crop producers for any acts, policies, or practices identified under clause (ii). assess the extent to which each act, policy, or practice identified under clauses
(i)and
(ii)are subject to international agreements to which the United States is a party; include information with respect to any action taken by the executive or legislative branches during the two years preceding submission of the report, or expected to be taken after submission of the report, to eliminate any act, policy, or practice identified under clauses
(i)and (ii), including— any action under section 301; negotiations or consultations with foreign governments, which may include engagement through the standing committee on sanitary and phytosanitary matters established under a free trade agreement to which the United States is a party; and action at the World Trade Organization, including dispute settlement actions, consultations, or negotiations; and a description of— any funds provided under subsection (f)(3)(A)(iv) that were not obligated in the fiscal year preceding submission of the report; and the reason such funds were not obligated. In preparing the report required by subparagraph (A), the Secretary, in coordination with the United States Trade Representative, shall seek and consider comments from the public and from the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Fruits and Vegetables. The report required by subparagraph
(A)shall be made available to the public in machine-readable format. . Section 203(f) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 ( 7 U.S.C. 5623(f) ) is amended— by striking 2019 through 2023 each place it appears and inserting 2025 through 2029 ; in paragraph (2), by striking $255,000,000 and inserting $489,500,000 ; in paragraph (3)(A)(i), by striking $200,000,000 and inserting $400,000,000 ; in paragraph (3)(A)(ii), by striking $34,500,000 and inserting $69,000,000 ; and in paragraph (4), by striking during the period in which that memorandum is in effect and inserting during the period in which the directives in such memorandum are in effect . Section 718 of title VII of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as enacted by section 101(a) of division A of Public Law 105–277 ; 7 U.S.C. 5623 note) is repealed.
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