IV 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 810 

Reaffirming the trade and investment partnership between the United States 

and the European Union is critical to the economic and national security 

of the United States. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 5, 2018 

Mr. KEATING (for himself and Mr. POE of Texas) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 

RESOLUTION 

Reaffirming the trade and investment partnership between 

the United States and the European Union is critical 

to the economic and national security of the United 

States. 

Whereas the trade and investment relationship between the 

United States and the European Union is the largest in 

the world; 

Whereas it is estimated that in 2015, United States exports 

to the European Union supported 2,600,000 jobs and 

that European majority-owned affiliates in the United 

States employed 4.3 million workers; 

Whereas strengthening transatlantic economic ties through a 

trade and investment agreement has the potential to reshape the rules of trade and to raise global standards on 


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labor and environmental protections, intellectual property 

rights, digital trade, investment, and regulatory cooperation; 

Whereas in 2013, the United States and the European Union 

entered into negotiations to advance the Transatlantic 

Trade and Investment Partnership, and these negotiations were ongoing through 2016; 

Whereas these negotiations have been on hold since the final 

round of negotiations in October 2016; 

Whereas, on March 8, 2018, President Trump announced a 

plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 

the United States; 

Whereas in 2017, the United States imported $7.3 billion in 

steel and aluminum from the European Union, which 

would result in an estimated $2.6 billion in trade losses 

to the European Union should the announced tariffs be 

imposed; 

Whereas job and financial losses to American businesses due 

to potential retaliatory tariffs on a broad range of United 

States exports to the European Union, including on products such as cranberries, peanut butter, and orange juice, 

would be severely detrimental to American workers; 

Whereas the People’s Republic of China has also announced 

proposed retaliatory tariffs on 128 American-made goods, 

including cranberries, pork, and almonds, in response to 

the announced United States tariffs on steel and aluminum imports; and 

Whereas in a proclamation issued by President Trump on 

March 22, 2018, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, 

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tries were afforded an exemption from the announced 

tariffs until May 1, 2018: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) reaffirms the trade and investment partner3 ship between the United States and the European 

4 Union is critical to the economic and national secu5 rity of the United States; 

6 (2) urges the Administration to prioritize the 

7 principles of fair trade in our commercial relation8 ships with our economic and security allies, espe9 cially the member countries of the European Union; 

10 (3) approves of the temporary exemption from 

11 steel and aluminum import tariffs issued to the Eu12 ropean Union member countries and other close al13 lies of the United States; and 

14 (4) urges the President to immediately issue a 

15 permanent exemption from such tariffs for the Eu16 ropean Union in order to afford our European allies 

17 the certainty and predictability that our long18 standing transatlantic partnership demands. 

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