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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 947 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit importation of commercially produced fresh citrus fruit originating |
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| 6 | 6 | | from the People’s Republic of China. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH11 (legislative day, MARCH10), 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | COTTof Florida introduced the following bill; which was read twice and |
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| 11 | 11 | | referred to the Committee on Finance |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To prohibit importation of commercially produced fresh |
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| 14 | 14 | | citrus fruit originating from the People’s Republic of China. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States Citrus 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Protection Act’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | •S 947 IS |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF COMMER-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | CIALLY PRODUCED FRESH CITRUS FRUIT 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | ORIGINATING FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUB-3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | LIC OF CHINA. 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (a) I |
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| 28 | 28 | | NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | sion of law, articles of commercially produced fresh citrus 6 |
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| 30 | 30 | | fruit originating from the People’s Republic of China may 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | not be imported into the United States. 8 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (b) E |
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| 33 | 33 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—This Act shall take effect on 9 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment 10 |
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| 35 | 35 | | of this Act. 11 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Æ |
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