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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Ending Needless Delivery Subsidies Act of 2018</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of State to seek to negotiate before the Universal Postal Union the elimination of all foreign subsidies for international postal shipments to the United States.</p> <p>The State Department may not conclude any international postal shipment agreement unless the postal rates granted to U.S. exporters under the agreement are similar to those granted to exporters in other countries that are parties to the agreement.</p>]]></text>
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