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Applications.

F r e e - l i s t articles. Authority for duty. 19 USC 1351.

Actions to prevent or remedy injury.

C o n g r e ssional procedure regarding resolutions.

PUBLIC LAW 85-686-AUG. 20, 1958

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partments and agencies for information in their possession concerning prices and other economic data from the principal supplier foreign country of each such article." SEC. 5. (a) The first paragraph of subsection (a) of section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1364 (a)), is amended by striking out "any interested party" and inserting in lieu thereof "any interested party (including any organization or group of employees)". (b)(1) The first paragraph of section 7(a) of such Act is amended by striking out "nine months" and inserting in lieu thereof "six months". (2) The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply only with respect to applications made after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1364), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(f) I n carrying out the provisions of this section the President may, notwithstanding section 350(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, impose a duty not in excess of 50 per centum ad valorem on any article not otherwise subject to duty." SEC. 6. Subsection (c) of section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1364 (c)), is amended by inserting " (1) " after " (c) " at the beginning thereof, and by adding at the end thereof the following: "(2) The action so found and reported by the Commission to be necessary shall take effect (as provided in the first sentence of paragraph (1) or in paragraph (3), as the case may be)— " (A) if approved by the President, or " (B) if disapproved by the President in whole or in part, upon the adoption by both Houses of the Congress (within the 60-day period following the date on which the report referred to in the second sentence of paragraph (1) is submitted to such committees), by the yeas and nays by a two-thirds vote of each House, of a concurrent resolution stating in effect that the Senate and House of Representatives approve the action so found and reported by the Commission to be necessary. For the purposes of subparagraph (B), in the computation of the 60-day period there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain or an adjournment of the Congress sine die. "(3) I n any case in which the contingency set forth in paragraph (2)(B) occurs, the President shall (within 15 days after the adoption of such resolution) take such action as may be necessary to make the adjustments, impose the quotas, or make such other modifications as were found and reported by the Commission to be necessary." SEC. 7. (a) The following subsections of this section are enacted by the Congress: (1) As an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in such House in the case of resolutions (as defined in subsection (b)); and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and (2) With full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to the procedure in such House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House.

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