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Trade agreement negotiation. 68 Stat. 360; 69 Stat. 166.

Investigation and reports on imports impairing national security.

PUBLIC LAW 85-686-AUG. 20, 1958

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(2) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution with respect to an investigation shall be decided without debate. (g) If, prior to the passage by one House of a resolution of that House with respect to an investigation, such House receives from the other House a resolution with respect to the same investigation, then— (1) If no resolution of the first House with respect to such investigation has been referred to committee, no other resolution with respect to the same investigation may be reported or (despite the provisions of subsection (d)(1)) be made the subject of a motion to discharge. (2) If a resolution of the first House with respect to such investigation has been referred to committee— (A) the procedure with respect to that or other resolutions of such House with respect to such investigation which have been referred to committee shall be the same as if no resolution from the other House with respect to such investigation had been received; but (B) on any vote on final passage of a resolution of the first House with respect to such investigation the resolution from the other House with respect to such investigation shall be automatically substituted for the resolution of the first House. SEC. 8. (a) Section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the authority of the President to enter into trade agreements under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended", approved July 1, 1954, as amended by section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1955 (19 U.S.C. sec. 1352a), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. (a) No action shall be taken pursuant to section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1351), to decrease the duty on any article if the President finds that such reduction would threaten to impair the national security. " (b) Upon request of the head of any Department or Agency, upon application of an interested party, or upon his own motion, the Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Director') shall immediately make an appropriate investigation, in the course of which he shall seek information and advice from other appropriate Departments and Agencies, to determine the effects on the national security of imports of the article which is the subject of such request, application, or motion. If, as a result of such investigation, the Director is of the opinion that the said article is being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security, he shall promptly so advise the President, and, unless the President determines that the article is not being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security as set forth in this section, he shall take such action, and for such time, as he deems necessary to adjust the imports of such article and its derivatives so that such imports will not so threaten to impair the national security. "(c) For the purposes of this section, the Director and the President shall, in the light of the requirements of national security and without excluding other relevant factors, give consideration to domestic production needed for projected national defense requirements, the capacity of domestic industries to meet such requirements, existing and anticipated availabilities of the human resources, products, raw materials, and other supplies and services essential to the national de-

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