S.Amdt. 3547

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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