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106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 1871

To authorize the negotiation of a Free Trade Agreement with Chile, and

to provide for expedited congressional consideration of such an agreement.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

NOVEMBER 5, 1999

Mr. BAUCUS introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred

to the Committee on Finance

A BILL

To authorize the negotiation of a Free Trade Agreement

with Chile, and to provide for expedited congressional

consideration of such an agreement.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Chile

5 Free Trade Agreement Act of 1999’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

7 Congress makes the following findings:

8 (1) Economic growth in the United States has

9 been considerably enhanced by bilateral agreements

10 to lower barriers to United States exports.
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1 (2) Increased trade and economic growth are

2 not ends in themselves. Trade and economic growth

3 should enhance the welfare and quality of life of all

4 citizens of the United States and Chile.

5 (3) Countries that open their domestic markets,

6 remove barriers to foreign direct investment, and

7 promote free enterprise empower their citizens to al8 leviate poverty and maintain social and environ9 mental values.

10 (4) Chile has participated fully in World Trade

11 Organization programs and policies which promote

12 open trade.

13 (5) At the 1996 World Trade Organization

14 Ministerial in Singapore, Chile reaffirmed its com15 mitment to internationally recognized core labor

16 standards.

17 SEC. 3. UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO TRADE.

18 It is the policy of the United States to seek the elimi19 nation of tariff and nontariff barriers in order to achieve

20 more open market access, on a reciprocal basis, to inter21 nationally traded goods and service, through bilateral free

22 trade agreements with like-minded countries. Such agree23 ments should address the following:

24 (1) National treatment and market access for

25 agricultural and industrial products.
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1 (2) Rules for determining which goods originate

2 in the territory of the United States and Chile.

3 (3) Customs procedures that facilitate trade

4 and collection of trade statistics, while ensuring the

5 validity of claims for preferential treatment.

6 (4) Science-based, nondiscriminatory sanitary,

7 phytosanitary, and technical standards, including

8 voluntary standards.

9 (5) Safeguard provisions for industries that

10 have sustained or are threatened with serious eco11 nomic injury from import surges.

12 (6) Government procurement procedures.

13 (7) National treatment and rights of establish14 ment for foreign direct investors.

15 (8) National treatment and market access for

16 traded services, including consumption of services

17 abroad, cross-border provision of services, rights of

18 establishment of commercial presence, and the move19 ment of natural persons.

20 (9) Protection of intellectual property.

21 (10) Transparency of legal and regulatory re22 gimes.

23 (11) Measures to promote electronic commerce.
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1 (12) Trade-related environmental measures,

2 and the potential for both favorable and adverse en3 vironmental impacts.

4 (13) Adherence to internationally recognized

5 core labor standards.

6 SEC. 4. NEGOTIATION OF A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH

7 CHILE.

8 Subject to section 5, the President is authorized to

9 enter into an agreement with Chile consistent with the pol10 icy described in section 3, and the provisions of section

11 151(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2191(c)) shall

12 apply with respect to a bill to implement such agreement.

13 SEC. 5. INTRODUCTION AND FAST TRACK CONSIDERATION

14 OF IMPLEMENTING BILL.

15 (a) INTRODUCTION IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

16 AND SENATE.—When the President submits to Congress

17 a bill to implement a trade agreement described in section

18 4, the bill shall be introduced (by request) in the House

19 of Representatives and the Senate as described in section

20 151(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2191(c)).

21 (b) PERMISSIBLE CONTENT IN IMPLEMENTING LEG22 ISLATION.—A bill to implement a trade agreement de23 scribed in section 4 shall contain provisions that are nec24 essary to implement the trade agreement, and may include
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1 trade-related labor and environmental protection stand2 ards.

3 (c) APPLICABILITY OF FAST TRACK PROCEDURES.—

4 Section 151 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2191)

5 is amended—

6 (1) in subsection (b)(1), by inserting ‘‘section 5

7 of the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement

8 Act of 1999,’’ after ‘‘the Omnibus Trade and Com9 petitiveness Act of 1988,’’; and

10 (2) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ‘‘or under

11 section 5 of the United States-Chile Free Trade

12 Agreement Act of 1999,’’ after ‘‘the Uruguay Round

13 Agreements Act,’’.

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