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[CITE: 7USC5674]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                      CHAPTER 87--EXPORT PROMOTION
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
                    Part B--Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 5674. Trade consultations concerning imports


(a) Consultation between agencies

    The Secretary shall require consultation between the Administrator 
of the Service and the heads of other appropriate agencies and offices 
of the Department of Agriculture, including the Administrator of the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, prior to relaxing or 
removing any restriction on the importation of any agricultural 
commodity into the United States.

(b) Consultation with Trade Representative

    The Secretary shall consult with the United States Trade 
Representative prior to relaxing or removing any restriction on the 
importation of any agricultural commodity or a product thereof into the 
United States.

(c) Monitoring compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary measures

    The Secretary shall monitor the compliance of World Trade 
Organization member countries with the sanitary and phytosanitary 
measures of the Agreement on Agriculture of the Uruguay Round of 
Multilateral Trade Negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and 
Trade. If the Secretary has reason to believe that any country may have 
failed to meet the commitment on sanitary and phytosanitary measures 
under the Agreement in a manner that adversely impacts the exports of a 
United States agricultural commodity, the Secretary shall--
        (1) provide such information to the United States Trade 
    Representative of the circumstances surrounding the matter arising 
    under this subsection; and
        (2) with respect to any such circumstances that the Secretary 
    considers to have a continuing adverse effect on United States 
    agricultural exports, report to the Committee on Agriculture, and 
    the Committee on Ways and Means, of the House of Representatives and 
    the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the 
    Committee on Finance, of the Senate--
            (A) that a country may have failed to meet the sanitary and 
        phytosanitary commitments; and
            (B) any notice given by the Secretary to the United States 
        Trade Representative.

(Pub. L. 95-501, title IV, Sec. 414, as added Pub. L. 101-624, title XV, 
Sec. 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3685; amended Pub. L. 104-127, title 
II, Sec. 242(b), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 965.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-127 added subsec. (c).
