HR 7670
Specialty CROP Act of 2026
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This bill, the Specialty Crops Reporting on Opportunities and Promotion Act of 2026, requires the USDA to produce an annual report detailing the competitiveness of U.S. exports of specialty crops. The report must analyze foreign barriers and distortions to these exports, including tariffs, quotas, and other trade practices. It also requires the USDA to consult with the Office of the United States Trade Representative and seek public and expert input before finalizing the report, which will be made publicly available in an unclassified format with a potential classified annex.
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119th CONGRESS — 2d Session
H. R. 7670
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To require a report on the competitiveness of United States exports of specialty crops.
This Act may be cited as the Specialty Crops Reporting on Opportunities and Promotion Act of 2026 Specialty CROP Act of 2026
or the
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Section 203(e)(7) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623(e)(7)) is amended to read as follows:
Each year, the Secretary, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report detailing the competitiveness of United States exports of specialty crops.
identify and analyze acts, policies, or practices of foreign countries that constitute significant barriers to, or distortions of United States exports of specialty crops, including the imposition of—
tariffs (including retaliatory tariffs) and quotas (including tariff-rate quotas); and
nontariff barriers, including technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, import licensing procedures, and subsidies;
make an estimate—
if feasible, of the value of additional specialty crops that would, during the year preceding submission of the report, have been exported from the United States to each foreign country an act, policy, or practice of which is identified under clause (i) if each such act, policy, or practice of that country did not exist;
assess the extent to which each act, policy, or practice identified under clause (i) is subject to international agreements to which the United States is a party;
include information with respect to any action taken by the executive branch during the year preceding submission of the report, or expected to be taken after submission of the report, to eliminate any act, policy, or practice identified under clause (i), including—
any action under section 301;
negotiations or consultations with foreign governments, which may include engagement through the standing committee on sanitary and phytosanitary matters established under a free trade agreement to which the United States is a party; and
action at the World Trade Organization, including dispute settlement actions, consultations, or negotiations; and
a description of—
any funds provided under subsection (f)(3)(A)(iv) that were not obligated in the fiscal year preceding submission of the report; and
the reason such funds were not obligated.
Before preparing the report required by subparagraph (A), the Secretary, in coordination with the United States Trade Representative, shall—
The report required by subparagraph (A) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
The unclassified portion of the report required by subparagraph (A) shall be made available to the public in machine-readable format.