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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jan 6, 1999
Selective Agricultural Embargoes Act of 1999 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to direct the President, if he or she takes action to embargo the export under an export sales contract of an agricultural commodity to a country that is not part of an embargo on all exports to the country, to report to the Congress, not later than five days after imposing the embargo, on the reasons for such embargo and its proposed duration. Sets forth congressional procedures for termination of the embargo. Specifies plant nutrient materials among the agricultural commodities whose export the President may not prohibit or curtail if: (1) the export sales contract for such materials is entered into before he or she announces an action that would otherwise prohibit or curtail their export; and (2) the contract terms require delivery of the materials within 270 days after the date of the suspension of trade is imposed.
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Rep. Ewing, Thomas W. [R-IL-15] · R–IL
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Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 280.
Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Received in the Senate.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 17.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4232-4237)
Mr. Ewing moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 103.
Reported by the Committee on International Relations. H. Rept. 106-154, Part II.
Reported by the Committee on International Relations. H. Rept. 106-154, Part II.
House Committee on International Relations Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than June 14, 1999.
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade Discharged.
House Committee on International Relations Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than June 11, 1999.
Reported by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 106-154, Part I.
Reported by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 106-154, Part I.
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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