SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING IMPORTED BARLEY AND OATS.

SEC. 119. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING IMPORTED BARLEY AND OATS. (a) Findings.— Congress finds that— (1) significant quantities of barley and oats are currently being imported into the United States from Norway, Sweden, and Finland origins, and there is reason to believe that such imports will continue in the future; (2) such imported barley and oats are being purchased at a price artificially established at a level significantly below that of domestically produced barley and oats due to unfair and predatory export subsidies and schemes employed by the exporting countries of origin; and (3) it is likely that the continued importation of such quantities of subsidized barley and oats will significantly and adversely affect producers of domestic barley and oats and impair the operations of existing farm commodity programs for barley and oats in the United States. (b) Sense of Congress.— Based on these findings, it is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture and the President of the United States should immediately and aggressively employ all available options under existing laws, including those under section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 624), reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, in order to prevent material damage to the producers of domestic barley and oats and to prevent material interference with the programs established pursuant to section 105B of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1444f).