§3602 Special agricultural safeguard authority

Summary

The President must publish in the Federal Register a list of the farm products that can get special safeguard duties by the time the WTO Agreement takes effect for the United States. For each listed product, the President must also publish the annual trigger level from Article 5(1)(a), the trigger price from Article 5(1)(b), and the time period that applies. If the President decides a product meets a price-based or a volume-based trigger under Article 5, the President will tell the Secretary of the Treasury to put a duty on that product when it is entered for consumption or removed from warehouse. No duty may run while the product is under action under sections 2252 or 2253. Goods that qualify as originating from a USMCA country under section 4531 and getting USMCA preferential tariffs are exempt. The Secretary of Agriculture must advise the President. The authority ends when Article 5’s special safeguard rules no longer apply to the United States. Article 5 — Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture. Relevant period — the time the President says applies to a product. Special safeguard agricultural good — a farm product that can have an extra duty under Article 5.