§3602 Special Agricultural Safeguard Authority

Summary

The President must publish a list of special safeguard agricultural goods in the Federal Register by the date the WTO Agreement starts to apply to the United States. For each listed good, the President must publish the annual trigger level, the trigger price, and the relevant period. If the President decides to use a price-based or volume-based safeguard under Article 5, the President must set the duty amount, how long it will apply, and any other rules needed, and then tell the Secretary of the Treasury to collect that duty on goods brought into the United States for use. Goods cannot have a duty under this rule at the same time they are under any action under sections 2252 or 2253. The President must exempt goods that qualify as originating under section 4531 if they get USMCA preferential treatment (terms in section 4502). The Secretary of Agriculture must give advice. The rule ends when the special safeguard parts of Article 5 no longer apply to the United States. Definitions: Article 5 = Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture (see section 3511(d)(2)); relevant period = the time the President sets for a good; special safeguard agricultural good = an agricultural product that might face an extra duty under Article 5.