[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 25, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5377-S5378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3547. Ms. HEITKAMP submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3399 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6147, 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in division C, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __. (a) Of the amount made available by this Act for 
     the Foreign Agricultural Service, $10,000,000 shall be 
     available for fiscal year 2019 for the trade adjustment 
     assistance for farmers program under chapter 6 of title II of 
     the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.), as amended by 
     subsection (b).

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       (b) Section 292(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
     2401a(c)) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3); and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
       ``(2) either--
       ``(A) the volume of imports of articles like, or directly 
     competitive with, the agricultural commodity produced by the 
     group in the marketing year with respect to which the group 
     files the petition increased compared to the average volume 
     of such imports during the 3 marketing years preceding such 
     marketing year; or
       ``(B)(i) the volume of exports of the agricultural 
     commodity produced by the group in the marketing year with 
     respect to which the group files the petition decreased 
     compared to the average volume of such exports during the 3 
     marketing years preceding such marketing year; and
       ``(ii) the decrease in exports described in clause (i) 
     resulted in whole or in part from duties imposed on such 
     exports by a foreign country in response to duties imposed by 
     the United States on imports from such country pursuant to 
     action taken under the authority of--
       ``(I) section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 
     U.S.C. 1862);
       ``(II) section 301 of this Act (19 U.S.C. 2411); or
       ``(III) the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
     U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); and
       ``(3) the increase in imports described in paragraph (2)(A) 
     or the decrease in exports described in paragraph (2)(B) 
     contributed importantly to the decrease in the national 
     average price, quantity of production, or value of production 
     of, or cash receipts for, the agricultural commodity, as 
     described in paragraph (1).''.
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