1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Trade Assistance for Farmers Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In recognition that trade policy can result in disparate and disruptive changes to the economy, the Trade Adjustment Assistance program was enacted to help workers adversely impacted by the trade policy decisions of the Federal Government. (2) The Trump Administration has made clear that it intends to aggressively use Federal trade statutes, including section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ( 19 U.S.C. 1862 ), section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2411 ), and potentially the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( Public Law 95–223 ), to increase tariffs on selected imports. (3) Foreign countries affected by such tariff increases have, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, already raised tariffs on United States agricultural exports or have indicated that they intend to respond by raising tariffs on such agricultural exports. (4) Increased tariffs on such agricultural exports threaten to cost United States agricultural producers global market share and reduce the income of producers of affected commodities. (5) Farmers adversely impacted by these effects deserve adjustment assistance. 3. Adjustment assistance for retaliatory tariff increases Section 292(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2401a(c) ) is amended— (1) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following: (2) either— (A) the volume of imports of articles like, or directly competitive with, the agricultural commodity produced by the group in the marketing year with respect to which the group files the petition increased compared to the average volume of such imports during the 3 marketing years preceding such marketing year