Trade-Related Bills Recently Introduced
Lawmakers introduced the following trade-related bills since International Trade Today's last legislative update:
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- HR-737: To amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the egg, meat, and poultry inspection laws to ensure that consumers receive notification regarding food products produced from crops, livestock, or poultry raised on land on which sewage sludge was applied.
- HR-735: To lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes.
- HR-697: To amend the African Elephant Conservation Act of 1988 to conserve elephants while appropriately regulating ivory in the United States.
- HR-687: To prevent States and local jurisdictions from interfering with the production and distribution of agricultural products in interstate or foreign commerce.
- HR-681: To make certain luggage and travel articles eligible for duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes.
- S-340: A bill to make certain luggage and travel articles eligible for duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes.
- HR-664: To allow travel between the United States and Cuba.
- HR-635: To facilitate the export of United States agricultural products to Cuba as authorized by the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000, to remove impediments to the export to Cuba of medical devices and medicines, to allow travel to Cuba by United States legal residents, to establish an agricultural export promotion program with respect to Cuba, and for other purposes.
- HR-634: To allow travel between the United States and Cuba.