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Authorizes USDA agencies and USTR consultation to negotiate regionalization, zoning, compartmentalization, and similar agreements to reduce export impacts from animal disease outbreaks.
Official title: Amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 28, 2025 by Roger F. Wicker · Last progress April 28, 2025
Authorizes USDA agencies and the U.S. Trade Representative to negotiate agreements with foreign governments that let U.S. livestock and animal-product exports continue during animal disease outbreaks. The law explicitly allows use of regionalization, zoning, compartmentalization, and similar tools and asks negotiators to consider accepted global research advances. The provision clarifies it does not restrict the USTR’s broader trade-negotiation authority or force the USTR to link other trade deals to animal-disease language.