                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                     SUBTITLE II--SPECIAL PROVISIONS
 
                  Part III--Promotion of Foreign Trade
 
Sec. 1361. Action by President; reports to Congress


(a) Transmittal by President of trade agreement and message to Congress

    Within thirty days after any trade agreement under section 1351 of 
this title has been entered into which, when effective, will (1) require 
or make appropriate any modification of duties or other import 
restrictions, the imposition of additional import restrictions, or the 
continuance of existing customs or excise treatment, which modification, 
imposition, or continuance will exceed the limit to which such 
modification, imposition, or continuance may be extended without causing 
or threatening serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or 
directly competitive articles as found and reported by the United States 
International Trade Commission under section 1360 of this title, or (2) 
fail to require or make appropriate the minimum increase in duty or 
additional import restrictions required to avoid such injury, the 
President shall transmit to Congress a copy of such agreement together 
with a message accurately identifying the article with respect to which 
such limits or minimum requirements are not complied with, and stating 
his reasons for the action taken with respect to such article. If either 
the Senate or the House of Representatives, or both, are not in session 
at the time of such transmission, such agreement and message shall be 
filed with the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives, or both, as the case may be.

(b) Transmittal by Commission of copy of report to the President to 
        Congressional committees

    Promptly after the President has transmitted such foreign trade 
agreement to Congress the Commission shall deposit with the Committee on 
Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 
Finance of the Senate, a copy of the portions of its report to the 
President dealing with the articles with respect to which such limits or 
minimum requirements are not complied with.

(June 16, 1951, ch. 141, Sec. 4, 65 Stat. 73; Pub. L. 93-618, title I, 
Sec. 171(b), Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2009.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Tariff Act of 1930 which 
comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1975--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-618 substituted ``United States 
International Trade Commission'' for ``Tariff Commission''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1360, 1366 of this title.
