[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2951 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2951

    To provide that member countries of the Caribbean Common Market 
 continue to provide access for exports of United States agricultural 
                       commodities and products.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Condit, Ms. 
  Lambert, Mr. Laughlin, Mr. Stenholm, and Mr. Herger) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide that member countries of the Caribbean Common Market 
 continue to provide access for exports of United States agricultural 
                       commodities and products.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``CARICOM Market Access Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act--
            (1) The term ``action to reduce exports of a United States 
        agricultural article'' means the imposition of a tariff or 
        quantitative restriction, or the taking of any other action, by 
        the Government of a CARICOM country (whether through a 
        governmental agency or by an organization acting under 
        governmental authority) that results in the annual quantity of 
        a United States agricultural article that is exported to such 
        country being reduced to an amount that is less than the 
        average annual quantity of such United States agricultural 
        article that was exported to such country during United States 
        marketing years 1988, 1989, and 1990.
            (2) The term ``CARICOM country'' means any country that is 
        a member of the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM) which 
        currently includes the following countries: Antigua and 
        Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenads, 
        Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint 
        Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago.
            (3) The term ``United States agricultural article'' means 
        any agricultural commodity or product thereof that is the 
        growth or manufacture of the United States.

SEC. 3. PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION AND SUBSEQUENT ACTION.

    (a) Determination.--If the President determines that the Government 
of any CARICOM country has taken, or is taking, action to reduce 
exports of a United States agricultural article, the President shall--
            (1) notify that Government and the Committee on Agriculture 
        of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
        Agriculture of the Senate of the determination and the reasons 
        for the determination; and
            (2) cause notice of the determination and the reasons 
        therefore to be published in the Federal Register together with 
        a statement of intent to take action under subsection (b).
    (b) Presidential Action.--If the Government of a CARICOM country 
that has been notified under subsection (a)(1) does not, before the 
60th day after the date of publication of notice in the Federal 
Register under subsection (a)(2), take action that, in the judgment of 
the President, will promptly terminate the action covered by the 
notification, the President by proclamation shall--
            (1) notwithstanding any provision of the Caribbean Basin 
        Economic Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), terminate the 
        designation of that country as a beneficiary country under that 
        Act; and
            (2) notwithstanding any provision of title V of the Trade 
        Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.; relating to the 
        generalized system of preferences) terminate the designation of 
        that country as a beneficiary developing country under that 
        title.

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