Editorial Note
The Trade Agreements Extension Act as finally enacted and approved on June 16, 1951, contained in Section 8 the following provision regarding Section 22:
- “Sec. 8. (a) In any case where the Secretary of Agriculture determines and reports to the President and to the Tariff Commission with [Page 1474] regard to any agricultural commodity that due to the perishability of the commodity a condition exists requiring emergency treatment, the Tariff Commission shall make an immediate investigation under the provisions of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, or under the provisions of section 7 of this Act to determine the facts and make recommendations to the President for such relief under those provisions as may be appropriate. The President may take immediate action however, without awaiting the recommendations of the Tariff Commission if in his judgment the emergency requires such action. In any case the report and findings of the Tariff Commission and the decision of the President shall be made at the earliest possible date and in any event not more than 25 calendar days after the submission of the case to the Tariff Commission.
- “(b) Subsection (f) of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act,
as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
- “‘(f) No trade agreement or other international agreement heretofore or hereafter entered into by the United States shall be applied in a manner inconsistent with the requirements of this section.’” (65 Stat. 75)