A bill to facilitate the efficient use of barter in managing agricultural commodities and the stocks of the National Defense Stockpile.
Barter Promotion Act of 1983 - Directs the President to coordinate Federal barter policy through the Executive Office of the President.
Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, the Agricultural Act of 1954, and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require utilization of private U.S. trading companies in barter transactions.
Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to eliminate the restriction on multilateral bartering.
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to eliminate certain Commodity Credit Corporation barter reimbursement requirements.
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report to the Congress within 60 days on the activities of the administration's interagency barter committee.
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.
Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1714 ordered to be reported.
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