TROPICAL AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY COMMODITIES.

SEC. 213. TROPICAL AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY COMMODITIES. (a) Section 201 (b) (1) shall not apply to any article if, before entering into the trade agreement covering such article, the President determines that— (1) such article is a tropical agricultural or forestry commodity; (2) the like article is not produced in significant quantities in the United States; and (3) the European Economic Community has made a commitment with respect to duties or other import restrictions which is likely to assure access for such article to the markets of the European Economic Community which— (A) is comparable to the access which such article will have to the markets of the United States, and (B) will be afforded substantially without differential treatment as among free world countries of origin. (b) For purposes of subsection (a), a “tropical agricultural or forestry commodity” is an agricultural or forestry commodity with respect to which the President determines that more than one-half of the world production is in the area of the world between 20 degrees north latitude and 20 degrees south latitude. (c) Before the President makes a determination under subsection (a) with respect to any article, the Tariff Commission shall (upon request of the President) make findings as to— (1) whether or not such article is an agricultural or forestry commodity more than one-half of the world production of which is in the area of the world between 20 degrees north latitude and 20 degrees south latitude, and (2) whether or not the like article is produced in significant quantities in the United States, and shall advise the President of such findings.