[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4794 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4794

 To provide for expediting an investigation by the International Trade 
   Commission by providing for the monitoring of the importation of 
           tomatoes and peppers under certain circumstances.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 1994

  Mr. Pombo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for expediting an investigation by the International Trade 
   Commission by providing for the monitoring of the importation of 
           tomatoes and peppers under certain circumstances.

    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 ``North American Free Trade Agreement 
Implementation Act Amendments of 1994''.

SEC. 2. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION MONITORING OF CERTAIN VEGETABLES 
              FOR FRESH MARKET USE.

    Section 316 of the North American Free Trade Agreement 
Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3381), is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 316. MONITORING.

    ``For purposes of expediting an investigation concerning 
provisional relief under this title or section 202 of the Trade Act of 
1974 regarding--
            ``(1) fresh or chilled tomatoes intended for fresh-market 
        use, if entered from December 1 through the following May 31, 
        provided for in heading 0702.00 of the HTS; and
            ``(2) fresh or chilled peppers, other than chili peppers, 
        intended for fresh-market use, if entered from December 1 
        through the following May 31, provided for in subheading 
        0709.60.00 of the HTS;
the International Trade Commission, until January 1, 2009, shall 
monitor imports of such goods as if proper requests for such monitoring 
had been made under subsection 202(d)(1)(C)(i) of such section 202. At 
the request of the International Trade Commission, the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Commissioner of Customs shall provide to the 
International Trade Commission information relevant to the monitoring 
carried out under this section.''.

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