[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2234 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2234

     To require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a trade 
 compensation assistance program if the President, any other member of 
the executive branch, or any other provision of law causes exports from 
    the United States to any country to be suspended for reasons of 
 national security or foreign policy, and to require the Secretary of 
 Defense to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for the cost of 
                           each such program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 25, 1998

  Mr. Dorgan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a trade 
 compensation assistance program if the President, any other member of 
the executive branch, or any other provision of law causes exports from 
    the United States to any country to be suspended for reasons of 
 national security or foreign policy, and to require the Secretary of 
 Defense to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for the cost of 
                           each such program.

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

SECTION 1. TRADE COMPENSATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Section 417 of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 
(7 U.S.C. 5677) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsections (a), (b), and (c) and inserting 
        the following:
    ``(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (f), 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the President, any other 
member of the executive branch, or any other provision of law causes 
exports from the United States of an agricultural commodity to any 
country to be suspended for reasons of national security or foreign 
policy, the Secretary shall carry out a trade compensation assistance 
program in accordance with this section (referred to in this section as 
a `program').
    ``(b) Compensation.--Under a program, the Secretary shall 
compensate producers of the agricultural commodity by making payments 
available to producers, as provided by subsection (c).
    ``(c) Determination of Amount of Compensation.--The amount of a 
payment made under subsection (b) shall be determined by the Secretary 
based on the Secretary's estimate of the loss suffered by producers of 
the agricultural commodity due to any decrease in the price of the 
commodity as a result of the suspension.'';
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``, but not to exceed 3 
        fiscal years'';
            (3) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
    ``(e) Funding.--
            ``(1) Commodity credit corporation.--Subject to paragraph 
        (2), the Secretary shall use funds of the Commodity Credit 
        Corporation to carry out this section.
            ``(2) Department of defense.--At the end of each fiscal 
        year, the Secretary of Defense shall reimburse the Commodity 
        Credit Corporation for the amount of funds used by the 
        Corporation for the fiscal year under paragraph (1).'';
            (4) by striking subsection (g); and
            (5) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (g).
    (b) Application of Amendments.--The amendments made by subsection 
(a) shall apply to any suspension described in section 417(a) of the 
Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (as amended by subsection (a)(1)) that--
            (1) is imposed after the date of enactment of this Act; or
            (2) was commenced before the date of enactment of this Act 
        and remains in effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
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