To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide that imported tomatoes are subject to packing standards contained in marketing orders issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to subject imported tomatoes to certain domestic packing requirements.

[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2921 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 2921

   To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide that imported 
tomatoes are subject to packing standards contained in marketing orders 
    issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 1996

Mrs. Thurman (for herself, Mr. Foley, Mr. Canady of Florida, Ms. Brown 
 of Florida, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Deutsch, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Goss, Mr. 
 Johnston of Florida, Mrs. Meek of Florida, Mr. Mica, Mr. Peterson of 
  Florida, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Stearns, and Mr. Weldon of 
   Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and 
 Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide that imported 
tomatoes are subject to packing standards contained in marketing orders 
    issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SUBJECTION OF IMPORTED TOMATOES TO PACKING REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 8e(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608e-
1(a)), reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1937, is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``or maturity'' and inserting ``, 
                maturity, or (with respect to tomatoes) packing''; and
                    (B) by striking ``and maturity'' and inserting 
                ``maturity, and (with respect to tomatoes) packing''; 
                and
            (2) in the second sentence by striking ``and maturity'' and 
        inserting ``maturity, and (with respect to tomatoes) packing''.
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