	 bill to change agriculture  laws the house ways and means committee is moving toward passage of a  bill that sponsors said was intended to help open foreign markets to u s agricultural goods and to modify some u s agricultural  laws the  subcommittee voted to require president reagan to take into account the potential harm to u s agricultural exports of any  retaliation he might impose for foreign unfair  practices against other domestic industries the bill would allow u s agricultural producers to seek government monitoring of imports if there is a reasonable chance the industry would be harmed by an import surge the full ways and means committee is to consider the bill next week and congressional sources said they expect it will be approved in investigations involving a processed agricultural product  associations of processors or producers would have to petition for relief from foreign dumping or unfair duties the bill sets out u s  negotiating objectives for the uruguay round of talks under the general agreement on tariffs and  it would seek fair  in agriculture seek to discipline restrictive or  distorting import and export practices to eliminate tariffs subsidies quotas and non tariff barriers president reagan s authority to negotiate a new gatt agreement would be extended through january and authority to negotiate a free  zone with canada would be extended through january the bill extends reagan s authority to negotiate an international coffee agreement through october it allows a refund of import duties paid on raw sugar imported from november to march for production of sugar or products containing sugar and destined for re export the export of the sugar or products must occur before octoer presently to qualify for the refund the sugar must be processed within three years after import and exported within five years agriculture would also benefit from more rapid decisions in complaints of unfair foreign  practices or injury from imports reuter 
