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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 193

To express the sense of Congress regarding negotiation objectives for the

Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT).

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOVEMBER 22, 1993

Mr. REGULA (for himself, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. MINETA, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr.

YATES, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. APPLEGATE, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. HUGHES,

Mr. EDWARDS of California, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. FILNER, Mr. CONYERS,

Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. LANCASTER, Mrs. BENTLEY, Mr. MURTHA, Mrs.

LOWEY, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. GENE GREEN of

Texas, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. RIDGE, Mr. WELDON, Mr. CARR of Michigan,

Mr. GEKAS, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. CLAY, Ms. LONG, Mr. MCDADE, Mr.

PALLONE, Mr. STOKES, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. VENTO, Mr.

MCHALE, Mr. PAYNE of Virginia, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. HUNTER, Mr.

RUSH, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. SLATTERY, Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. MINK, Mr.

BROWN of California, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. COYNE, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. OBEY,

Mr. RAHALL, Mr. SANGMEISTER, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. SYNAR, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr. QUINN, Mr. ROEMER, Ms. FURSE, Ms. MARGOLIESMEZVINSKY, Mr. MOLLOHAN, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mrs. KENNELLY, Mr. PICKLE, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. HOUGHTON, and Miss COLLINS

of Michigan) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

To express the sense of Congress regarding negotiation objectives for the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement

on Trade and Tariffs (GATT).

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate

2 concurring),
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1 SECTION 1. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS ON

2 ANTIDUMPING AND TRADE DISTORTING

3 SUBSIDIES.

4 (a) It is the sense of Congress that the President

5 shall not enter into any international trade agreement on

6 antidumping requiring changes in United States anti7 dumping laws which would reduce the effectiveness of such

8 laws as a remedy against injurious dumped imports. In

9 this regard, the Congress strongly urges the President to

10 review carefully the provisions on antidumping contained

11 in the Draft Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uru12 guay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations proposed

13 by the Director-General of the General Agreement on Tar14 iffs and Trade on December 21, 1991, and to seek those

15 changes in such provisions that are necessary to maintain

16 and to strengthen the effectiveness of United States anti17 dumping laws, including, but not limited to, changes pro18 posed by the United States in December 1992, any

19 changes needed to clarify the continuing right to cumulate

20 and cross-cumulate imports under investigation, and the

21 prohibition of procedures to sunset dumping and counter22 vailing duty orders.

23 (b) It is the sense of Congress that the United States

24 Government shall not, as a matter of official policy, con25 done or legitimize the use by foreign governments of trade
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1 distorting subsidies, including development subsidies, that

2 cause material injury to industries in the United States.

3 SEC. 2. PRINCIPAL TRADE NEGOTIATION OBJECTIVES OF

4 THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING DISPUTE

5 SETTLEMENT MECHANISMS WITH RESPECT

6 TO UNITED STATES COUNTERVAILING DUTY

7 AND ANTIDUMPING ACTIONS.

8 (a) It is the sense of Congress that the United States

9 not enter into any international trade agreement on dis10 pute settlement contained in the Draft Final Act Embody11 ing the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral

12 Trade Negotiations proposed by the Director-General of

13 the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on December

14 21, 1991, unless with respect to review of countervailing

15 duty and antidumping duty actions taken by a signatory

16 to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

17 under its national laws, the dispute settlement mecha18 nisms and procedures shall not allow—

19 (1) the review of issues that were not properly

20 presented to the investigating authorities for resolu21 tion during the administrative proceeding conducted

22 under such laws;

23 (2) the review of issues before the conclusion of

24 the administrative proceeding conducted under such

25 laws;
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1 (3) the conducting of an independent de novo

2 investigation of the circumstances leading to such

3 actions; and

4 (4) where a signatory to the GATT provides for

5 the administrative or judicial review, by an inde6 pendent body, of factual issues with respect to coun7 tervailing duty and antidumping actions, the exten8 sion of the review beyond whether the laws and reg9 ulations of that signatory, and the interpretation of

10 such laws and regulations by that signatory, are con11 sistent with the General Agreement on Tariffs and

12 Trade.

13 In reaching the principal negotiating objectives described

14 in this Act, and in section 1101 of the Omnibus Trade

15 and Competitiveness Act of 1988, all necessary actions

16 shall be taken to promote strong and effective limitations

17 on the scope of and standards applicable to any review

18 of countervailing duty or antidumping duty actions under

19 the dispute settlement mechanisms and procedures de20 scribed in this section.

21 SEC. 3. GLOBAL STRUCTURAL EXCESS CAPACITY.

22 It is the sense of Congress that the principal negotiat23 ing objective of the United States regarding situations of

24 global structural excess capacity is to negotiate multilat-
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1 eral rules to permit rapid realignment of capacity to

2 demand.

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