Announcement
18 Dec 2015
On December 18, 2015 President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (formerly H.R.2029 and now Public Law No. 114-113). This is a very wide-ranging measure that authorizes programs in many different areas of public policy. One of the more significant trade-related provisions in this bill is the repeal of long-standing restrictions on the exportation of oil. The law also repeals a controversial provision requiring the country-of-origin labeling of meat.
Below are summarized those provisions that are related to trade, apart from those that might be classified as sanctions related to foreign policy, phytosanitary measures, or other matters outside the scope of GTA reporting.
Note that omnibus measures of this sort do not always follow the usual practice of sequentially numbering their various titles and sections. Some of the items summarized below have no section numbers at all.
Source
Number of interventions
2
2 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
0 liberalising
2 in force
Implementation date
18 Dec 2015
Revocation date:
No revocation date
Export-Related Provisions Section 101(a) repeals the restrictions on oil exports that had been provided under Section 103 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, and section 101(b) states that, 'N...
Section 8125 of the Department of Defence Appropriations Act provides that ''none of the funds provided in this Act for the T-AO(X) program shall be used to award a new contract that provides for the ...
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