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To provide for assistance to United States exporters of certain fruits and vegetables in order to ensure better access to foreign markets. 3/27/2007--Introduced. United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate plants, plant products, biological control organisms, and noxious weeds for export purposes. Directs the Secretary to: (1) coordinate fruit and vegetable market analyses with the private sector and the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service; and (2) make publicly available on an Internet website the status of all export petitions and an explanation of the sanitary or phytosanitary issues associated with each pending export petition, and information on the import requirements of foreign countries for fruits and vegetables. Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection [...] show full description
- 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
- 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
- 04/13/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
- 04/10/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
show all actions- 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
- 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
- 04/13/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
- 04/10/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- 03/28/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E654-655)
- 03/27/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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.
- 03/27/2007 - Referred to House Agriculture
- 03/27/2007 - Referred to House Ways and Means
- 03/27/2007 - Referred to House Homeland Security
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