---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 5674"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "5674"
heading: "Trade consultations concerning imports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/5674"
units:
  - "Chapter 87 — Export Promotion"
  - "Subchapter IV — General Provisions"
  - "Part B — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §5674. Trade consultations concerning imports

- (a) **Consultation between agencies—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) shall require consultation between the Administrator of the [Service](/usc/7/5602.md?p=4) and the heads of other appropriate agencies and offices of the Department of Agriculture, including the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection [Service](/usc/7/5602.md?p=4), prior to relaxing or removing any restriction on the importation of any [agricultural commodity](/usc/7/5602.md?p=1) into the [United States](/usc/7/5602.md?p=6).
- (b) **Consultation with Trade Representative—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) shall consult with the [United States](/usc/7/5602.md?p=6) Trade Representative prior to relaxing or removing any restriction on the importation of any [agricultural commodity](/usc/7/5602.md?p=1) or a product thereof into the [United States](/usc/7/5602.md?p=6).
- (c) **Monitoring compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary measures—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) shall monitor the compliance of World Trade Organization member countries with the sanitary and phytosanitary measures of the Agreement on Agriculture of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. If the [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) has reason to believe that any country may have failed to meet the commitment on sanitary and phytosanitary measures under the Agreement in a manner that adversely impacts the exports of a [United States agricultural commodity](/usc/7/5602.md?p=7), the [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) shall—
  - (1) provide such information to the [United States](/usc/7/5602.md?p=6) Trade Representative of the circumstances surrounding the matter arising under this subsection; and
  - (2) with respect to any such circumstances that the [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) considers to have a continuing adverse effect on [United States](/usc/7/5602.md?p=6) agricultural exports, report to the Committee on Agriculture, and the Committee on Ways and Means, of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Committee on Finance, of the Senate—
    - (A) that a country may have failed to meet the sanitary and phytosanitary commitments; and
    - (B) any notice given by the [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) to the [United States](/usc/7/5602.md?p=6) Trade Representative.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3685; amended Pub. L. 104–127, title II, § 242(b), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 965.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–127 added subsec. (c).