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Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73

§1676 Required consultations

Title 19 › Chapter CHAPTER 4— - TARIFF ACT OF 1930 › Subtitle SUBTITLE IV— - COUNTERVAILING AND ANTIDUMPING DUTIES › Part Part III— - Reviews; Other Actions Regarding Agreements › Subpart subpart b— - consultations and determinations regarding quantitative restriction agreements › § 1676

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 90 days after the administering authority accepts a quantitative restriction agreement, the President must begin talks with the other government. The talks must try to either remove the countervailable subsidy completely or cut it enough so exports no longer hurt U.S. industry. If the President orders it, the administering authority must change the agreement based on those talks. This part stops applying to the agreement when the agreement ends under its own rules or a violation is found.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §1676

Customs Duties — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Within 90 days after the administering authority accepts a quantitative restriction agreement under section 1671c(a)(2) or (c)(3) of this title, the President shall enter into consultations with the government that is party to the agreement for purposes of—
(1)eliminating the countervailable subsidy completely, or
(2)reducing the net countervailable subsidy to a level that eliminates completely the injurious effect of exports to the United States of the merchandise.
(b)At the direction of the President, the administering authority shall modify a quantitative restriction agreement as a result of consultations entered into under subsection (a).
(c)This subpart shall cease to apply to a quantitative restriction agreement described in section 1671c(c)(3) of this title at such time as that agreement ceases to have force and effect under section 1671c(f) of this title or violation is found under section 1671c(i) of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–465, § 270(b)(1)(C), (2), inserted “countervailable” before “subsidies” in heading. Subsec. (a)(1), (2). Pub. L. 103–465, § 270(a)(1)(I), inserted “countervailable” before “subsidy”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1994 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 103–465 effective, except as otherwise provided, on the date on which the WTO Agreement enters into force with respect to the United States (Jan. 1, 1995), and applicable with respect to investigations, reviews, and inquiries initiated and petitions filed under specified provisions of this chapter after such date, see section 291 of Pub. L. 103–465, set out as a note under section 1671 of this title.

Effective Date

Section applicable with respect to investigations initiated by petition or by the administering authority under parts I and II of this subtitle, and to reviews begun under section 1675 of this title, on or after Oct. 30, 1984, see section 626(b)(1) of Pub. L. 98–573, as amended, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1984 Amendment note under section 1671 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

19 U.S.C. § 1676

Title 19 — Customs Duties

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73