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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. RES. 60

Supporting United States requests to reopen the December 20, 1991, draft

final act text in the Uruguay Round to address areas of particular

concern to United States manufacturers, environmental and consumer

groups.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

FEBRUARY 3 (legislative day, JANUARY 5), 1993

Mr. D’AMATO submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the

Committee on Finance

RESOLUTION

Supporting United States requests to reopen the December

20, 1991, draft final act text in the Uruguay Round

to address areas of particular concern to United States

manufacturers, environmental and consumer groups.

Whereas the completion of the Uruguay Round of Trade

Negotiations on a basis that advances the interests of

United States agriculture, manufacturing and service industries and safeguards the interests of United States

citizens in areas such as environmental protection and

worker and consumer safety remains a priority matter for

the Congress;

Whereas the Congress in the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 identified overall and principal trade

negotiating objectives (19 U.S.C. 2901), which objectives
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remain critical to the successful conclusion of multilateral

trade negotiations;

Whereas on December 20, 1991, the GATT Secretariat released a document entitled ‘‘Draft Final Act Embodying

the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade

Negotiations’’ which document has been criticized by

many business and citizen groups as not adequately protecting the interests of the United States;

Whereas throughout 1992 the United States faced continuing

efforts by the European Community to reduce the size of

the liberalization package in agriculture, a matter of

great importance to United States export interests in the

agriculture sector, with a resulting agreement in Washington in late November 1992 resolving certain differences in agriculture trade;

Whereas in December 1992, the United States negotiators

submitted a list of changes to the December 20, 1991

text that were needed by the United States to protect the

interests of United States industries and citizen groups

including to the draft texts on:

the Multilateral Trade Organization,

the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade,

the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and

Phytosanitary Measures,

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights,

Including Trade in Counterfeit Goods, and

the Antidumping Code (including (a) guidelines for panel

review; (b) sunset; and (c) anticircumvention);

Whereas efforts in the ongoing Uruguay Round negotiations

during December 1992 and January 1993 have not resulted in breakthroughs in other areas of importance to
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the United States, including market access commitments

in goods and initial undertakings in services; and

Whereas a new Administration has assumed the responsibility

for completion of the Uruguay Round negotiations as of

the afternoon of January 20, 1993: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that—

2 (1) the United States negotiators continue to

3 strive for an early conclusion to the Uruguay Round,

4 provided the final text and commitments adequately

5 protect United States interests; and

6 (2) United States interests require (a) adoption

7 of the changes proposed by the United States in De8 cember 1992 in each of the areas identified, (b) gen9 eration of the maximum market access package

10 while being sensitive to our most import sensitive

11 sectors, (c) achieving the maximum initial commit12 ments in the service negotiations.

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