[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 25, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3455-S3456]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2019. Mr. THUNE (for himself and Mr. Tester) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. 
Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for 
Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to 
establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and 
report on economic security, science, research, innovation, 
manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain 
resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the end of title III of division F, add the following:

     SEC. 6302. REPORT ON COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN LABELING FOR BEEF, 
                   PORK, AND OTHER MEAT PRODUCTS.

       Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the United States Trade Representative and the 
     Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly submit to the 
     Committee on Finance and the Committee on Agriculture, 
     Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on 
     Ways and Means and the Committee on Agriculture of the House 
     of Representatives a report on the ruling issued by the World 
     Trade Organization in 2015 on country-of-origin labeling for 
     beef, pork, and other meat products that includes--
       (1) an assessment of the impact of the ruling on--
       (A) consumer awareness regarding the origin of meat 
     consumed in the United States;
       (B) agricultural producers in the United States, taking 
     into consideration other marketplace dynamics;
       (C) the security and resilience of the food supply in the 
     United States; and
       (D) the continuity of trade and the fulfillment of trade 
     obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement and 
     the Agreement between the United States of America, the 
     United Mexican States, and Canada; and
       (2) if the assessment under paragraph (1) indicates that 
     the ruling had a negative impact on consumers in the United 
     States, agricultural producers in the United States, and the 
     overall security and resilience of the food supply in the 
     United States, recommendations for such legislative or 
     administrative action as the Secretary of Agriculture 
     considers appropriate--

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       (A) to better inform consumers in the United States;
       (B) to support agricultural producers in the United States; 
     and
       (C) to improve the security and resilience of the food 
     supply in the United States.
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