SENSE OF CONGRESS—AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS.

SEC. 341. SENSE OF CONGRESS—AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS. (a) Findings.—Congress finds that— (1) the disastrous drought of 1988 is causing substantial agricultural crop losses and is putting an enormous financial burden on United States farmers and their families; (2) the Food Security Act of 1985 (A) recognized that agricultural export markets are extremely important in ensuring the economic recovery and future success of United States farmers, their families, and rural communities, and (B) established several programs to develop and expand agricultural export markets and help restore the United States share of international agricultural trade; (3) the programs under the Food Security Act of 1985, such as the export enhancement program and the targeted export assistance program, have been successful to date and have served to increase agricultural exports; (4) United States agricultural exports make a substantial contribution to reducing our Nation’s international trade deficit; (5) it is important that the United States be perceived as being a reliable supplier of agricultural commodities and products; (6) imposing embargoes on, or taking other steps to reduce the levels of, the exports of agricultural commodities or products in wake of the drought will undermine the gains made since 1985 in securing markets for United States agricultural commodities and products abroad, by allowing foreign competitors opportunity to move into our international markets; and (7) imposing embargoes on, or taking other steps to reduce the levels of, exports of agricultural commodities and products would jeopardize the progress in strengthening our agricultural export markets made by export assistance programs under the Food Security Act of 1985. 102 STAT. 955 (b) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that the Government should not take any action that (1) will further exacerbate the already disastrous circumstances for United States agriculture resulting from the drought by imposing, or facilitating the imposition of, embargoes or other limitations that reduce exports of agricultural commodities and products, or (2) otherwise jeopardize United States foreign agricultural markets or give our trading partners reason to believe United States farmers have become unreliable suppliers of agricultural commodities and products.