Section 1. TitleThis legislation may be cited as the
Defending Domestic Produce Production Act.
Section 2. Definitions(a) Core Seasonal Industry.—Section 771 of the
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(37) CORE SEASONAL INDUSTRY.—The term ‘core seasonal industry’ means the producers—
“(A) of a domestic like product that is a raw agricultural product,
“(B) whose collective output of the domestic like product constitutes a majority of the total production of the domestic like product in any State or group of States that accounts for a major portion of the total production of the domestic like product during any discrete season or cyclical period of time that concludes not later than 8 weeks after the date in which the product is harvested, and
“(C) that make substantially all of their sales of the domestic like product during the season or cyclical period of time described in subparagraph (B).”.
(b) Dumping.—The term ‘dumping’ refers to the illegal practice of when a country or company exports a product at a price that is lower in the foreign importing market than the price in the exporter's domestic market.
Section 3. Improvements to Countervailing Duty Procedures for Core Seasonal Industries1. A core seasonal industry, if the domestic producers or workers who support the petition account for at least 50 percent of the total production of the domestic like product in any State or group of States that accounts for at least 50 percent of total production of the domestic like product during the season or cyclical period of time specified in the petition, determined by averaging production over the 3 seasons or cyclical periods of time preceding the filing of the petition, may report suspected instances of dumping to the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
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The Tariff Act of 1930 is hereby amended.—
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D);
(2) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking “, and” and inserting a comma; and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:
“(C) in cases involving dumping that affects a core seasonal industry solely during a specific season or cyclical period of time, the administering authority shall limit the application of any rate determined under subparagraph (B) to that season or cyclical period of time, and”.
