16 U.S.C. § 742h: Reports on fishery products

Summary

The Secretary may prepare reports for the President and Congress about any fishery product imported into the United States. The Secretary can also send a report to the U.S. International Trade Commission when that agency asks because of a trade matter or investigation, or when any part of the U.S. industry that makes a similar product asks for one. Reports will look at two things: whether U.S. production, jobs in production, prices, or sales of the similar product have fallen, and whether imports of the fishery product have increased, either in total or compared with U.S. production.

Title 16, §742h

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(a)Repealed. Pub. L. 96–470, title I, § 103(a), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2237.

(b)The Secretary is authorized to make a report to the President and the Congress, and, when requested by the United States International Trade Commission in connection with section 1364 of title 19, or when an investigation is made under the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1332), the Secretary is authorized to make a report to such Commission, concerning the following matters with respect to any fishery product which is imported into the United States, or such reports may be made upon a request from any segment of the domestic industry producing a like or directly competitive product—

(1)whether there has been a downward trend in the production, employment in the production, or prices, or a decline in the sales, of the like or directly competitive product by the domestic industry; and

(2)whether there has been an increase in the imports of the fishery products into the United States, either actual or relative to the production of the like or directly competitive product produced by the domestic industry.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 1364 of title 19, referred to in subsec. (b), was repealed by Pub. L. 87–794, title II, § 257(e)(1), Oct. 11, 1962, 76 Stat. 882.

Amendments

1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–470 struck out subsec. (a) which required Secretary of the Interior to make an annual report to Congress with respect to activities of United States Fish and Wildlife Service under this Act, accompanied by appropriate legislative recommendations. 1975—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93–618 substituted “United States International Trade Commission” for “United States Tariff Commission”.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, see note set out under section 742b of this title.

§742h Reports on Fishery Products