Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 98 Part 3.djvu/627

 PUBLIC LAW 98-573—OCT. 30, 1984

98 STAT. 2999

(C) by striking out the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and inserting in Heu thereof "; and", and (D) by adding at the end thereof the following: "(D) the presence or absence of any factor which the Commission is required to evaluate in subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not necessarily be dispositive of whether an article is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to be a substantial cause of serious injury or threat of serious injury to the domestic industry."; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(7) For purposes of this section, the term 'significant idling of productive facilities' includes the closing of plants or the underutilization of production capacity.". SEC. 250. HOGS AND PORK PRODUCTS FROM CANADA. The pork industry contributes $9,000,000,000 annually to the United States economy; Over four hundred and fifty thousand United States farmers produce pork for domestic and foreign markets; United States imports of live hogs from Canada averaged one hundred thousand animals each year between 1970 and 1974, yet since 1981, such imports have increased yearly from one hundred and forty-six thousand head to an estimated more than one million head in 1984; The adverse economic effect of the recent surge in imports of Canadian hogs and pork products on United States pork producers has been estimated to be in excess of $500,000,000 in 1982 and 1983, and approximately $300,000,000 during the first five months of 1984; The Canadian Government provides price support for hogs at a level equal to 90 per centum of the previous five-year average market price, indexed for changes in cash costs of production of hogs, which represented a payment of $6.54 per head to Canadian pork producers last year, and all but one provincial government of Canada also provide direct production assistance to support Canadian pork producers; and It is essential that the administration act immediately to address the threat to the United States pork production industry caused by the dramatic increase in imports of hogs and pork products from Canada. It is the sense of the Senate that the President should direct appropriate members of the administration, including the United States Trade Representative, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce, to aggressively pursue discussions with the Canadian Government directed toward resolving this situation and use all available authorities in an effort to protect the economic viability of the United States pork industry and to promote free and fair trade. SEC. 251. COPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE.

Since the development of computer software and other information technologies is increasingly important to economic growth and productivity in the United States and other nations; Since the United States is the world leader in the technological development of computer software and in the production and sale of computer software; Since the United States has since 1964 considered computer software a work of authorship protected by copyright and this form

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