                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
           SUBTITLE IV--COUNTERVAILING AND ANTIDUMPING DUTIES
 
          Part III--Reviews; Other Actions Regarding Agreements
 
   subpart b--consultations and determinations regarding quantitative 
                         restriction agreements
 
Sec. 1676a. Required determinations


(a) In general

    Before the expiration date, if any, of a quantitative restriction 
agreement accepted under section 1671c(a)(2) or 1671c(c)(3) of this 
title (if suspension of the related investigation is still in effect)--
        (1) the administering authority shall, at the direction of the 
    President, initiate a proceeding to determine whether any 
    countervailable subsidy is being provided with respect to the 
    subject merchandise and, if being so provided, the net 
    countervailable subsidy; and
        (2) if the administering authority initiates a proceeding under 
    paragraph (1), the Commission shall determine whether imports of the 
    merchandise of the kind subject to the agreement will, upon 
    termination of the agreement, materially injure, or threaten with 
    material injury, an industry in the United States or materially 
    retard the establishment of such an industry.

(b) Determinations

    The determinations required to be made by the administering 
authority and the Commission under subsection (a) of this section shall 
be made under such procedures as the administering authority and the 
Commission, respectively, shall by regulation prescribe, and shall be 
treated as final determinations made under section 1671d of this title 
for purposes of judicial review under section 1516a of this title. If 
the determinations by each are affirmative, the administering authority 
shall--
        (1) issue a countervailing duty order under section 1671e of 
    this title effective with respect to merchandise entered on and 
    after the date on which the agreement terminates; and
        (2) order the suspension of liquidation of all entries of 
    subject merchandise which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse 
    for consumption, on or after the date of publication of the order in 
    the Federal Register.

(c) Hearings

    The determination proceedings required to be prescribed under 
subsection (b) of this section shall provide that the administering 
authority and the Commission must, upon the request of any interested 
party, hold a hearing in accordance with section 1677c of this title on 
the issues involved.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title VII, Sec. 762, as added Pub. L. 98-573, 
title VI, Sec. 611(a)(4), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3032; amended Pub. L. 
103-465, title II, Secs. 233(a)(5)(Z), (AA), 270(a)(1)(J), Dec. 8, 1994, 
108 Stat. 4900, 4917.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 103-465, Secs. 233(a)(5)(Z), 
270(a)(1)(J), inserted ``countervailable'' before ``subsidy'' in two 
places and substituted ``subject merchandise'' for ``merchandise subject 
to the agreement''.
    Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 103-465, Sec. 233(a)(5)(AA), substituted 
``subject merchandise'' for ``merchandise subject to the order''.


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-465 effective, except as otherwise 
provided, on the date on which the WTO Agreement enters into force with 
respect to the United States [Jan. 1, 1995], and applicable with respect 
to investigations, reviews, and inquiries initiated and petitions filed 
under specified provisions of this chapter after such date, see section 
291 of Pub. L. 103-465, set out as a note under section 1671 of this 
title.


                             Effective Date

    Section applicable with respect to investigations initiated by 
petition or by the administering authority under parts I and II of this 
subtitle, or reviews begun under section 1675 of this title, on or after 
Oct. 30, 1984, see section 626(b)(1) of Pub. L. 98-573, as amended, set 
out as an Effective Date of 1984 Amendment note under section 1671 of 
this title.
