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 102 STAT. 1390

7 USC 5202.

7 USC 5203.

PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988

(A) provides communities with health care, credit systems, and tools for development; and (B) establishes the infrastructure that is essential to the expansion of markets for United States agricultural commodities and products. SEC. 4102. POLICY. It is the policy of the United States— (1) to provide, through all possible means, agricultural commodities and products for export at competitive prices, with full assurance of quality and reliability of supply; (2) to support the principle of free trade and the promotion of fair trade in agricultural commodities and products; (3) to support fully the negotiating objectives set forth in section 1101(b) of this Act to eliminate or reduce substantially constraints on fair and open trade in agricultural commodities and products; (4) to use statutory authority to counter unfair foreign trade practices and to use all available means, including export promotion programs, and, if necessary, restrictions on United States imports of agricultural commodities and products, in order to encourage fair and open trade; and (5) to provide for increased representation of United States agricultural trade interests in the formulation of national fiscal and monetary policy affecting trade. SEC. 4103. PURPOSE. It is the purpose of this title— (1) to increase the effectiveness of the Department of Agriculture in agricultural trade policy formulation and implementation and in assisting United States agricultural producers to participate in international agricultural trade, by strengthening the operations of the Department of Agriculture; and (2) to improve the competitiveness of United States agricultural commodities and products in the world market.

Subtitle B—Agricultural Trade Initiatives PART 1—GENERAL PROVISIONS 7 USC 5211. President of U.S.

SEC. 4201. LONG-TERM AGRICULTURAL TRADE STRATEGY REPORTS. (a) CONTENTS.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare annually, and the President shall submit together with the budget for each fiscal year, a Long-Term Agricultural Trade Strategy Report establishing recommended policy goals for United States agricultural trade and exports, and recommended levels of spending on international activities of the Department of Agriculture, for 1-, 5-, and 10-fiscal year periods. In preparing each such report, the Secretary shall consult with the United States Trade Representative to ensure that the report is coordinated with the annual national trade policy Eigenda included in the annual report for the relevant fiscal year prepared under section 163 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2213). Each such report shall include— (1) findings with respect to trends in the comparative position of the United States and other countries in the export of

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