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-1947: To establish the Trade Agreements Enforcement Trust Fund to take actions to enforce free trade agreements to which the United States is a party, and for other purposes.
- HR-1946: To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the United States Trade Representative to take discretionary action if a foreign country is engaging in unreasonable acts, policies, or practices relating to the environment, and for other purposes.
- HR-1945: To amend the African Elephant Conservation Act and the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act to provide for trade sanctions against countries involved in illegal trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn, and for other purposes.
- S-1049: A bill to allow the financing by United States persons of sales of agricultural commodities to Cuba.
- HR-1917: To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to establish congressional procedures for the termination of economically harmful free trade agreements, and for other purposes.
- HR-1916: To reauthorize trade enforcement and trade facilitation functions and activities, and for other purposes.
- HR-1907: Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015
- HR-1903: To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to eliminate the consumptive demand exception to prohibition on importation of goods made with convict labor, forced labor, or indentured labor, and for other purposes.
- S-1019: A bill to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to repeal certain provisions relating to criminal penalties and violations of foreign laws, and for other purposes.