veloped under paragraph (1) to all Federal agencies 
that could have jurisdiction over laws affected by 
trade negotiations. 
(f) ESTABLISHMENT OF POSITION OF CHIEF TRANS-
PARENCY OFFICER
IN
THE OFFICE
OF
THE UNITED 
STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE.—Section 141(b) of the 
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2171(b)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) There shall be in the Office one Chief Trans-
parency Officer. The Chief Transparency Officer shall 
consult with Congress on transparency policy, coordinate 
transparency in trade negotiations, engage and assist the 
public, and advise the United States Trade Representative 
on transparency policy.’’. 
SEC. 5. NOTICE, CONSULTATIONS, AND REPORTS. 
(a) NOTICE, CONSULTATIONS, AND REPORTS BE-
FORE NEGOTIATION.— 
(1) NOTICE.—The President, with respect to 
any agreement that is subject to the provisions of 
section 3(b), shall— 
(A) provide, at least 90 calendar days be-
fore initiating negotiations with a country, writ-
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ten notice to Congress of the President’s inten-
tion to enter into the negotiations with that 
country and set forth in the notice the date on 
which the President intends to initiate those ne-
gotiations, the specific United States objectives 
for the negotiations with that country, and 
whether the President intends to seek an agree-
ment, or changes to an existing agreement; 
(B) before and after submission of the no-
tice, consult regarding the negotiations with the 
Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Finance 
of the Senate, such other committees of the 
House and Senate as the President deems ap-
propriate, and the House Advisory Group on 
Negotiations and the Senate Advisory Group on 
Negotiations convened under section 4(c); 
(C) upon the request of a majority of the 
members of either the House Advisory Group 
on Negotiations or the Senate Advisory Group 
on Negotiations convened under section 4(c), 
meet with the requesting congressional advisory 
group before initiating the negotiations or at 
any other time concerning the negotiations; and 
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(D) after consulting with the Committee 
on Ways and Means and the Committee on Fi-
nance, and at least 30 calendar days before ini-
tiating negotiations with a country, publish on 
a publicly available Internet website of the Of-
fice of the United States Trade Representative, 
and regularly update thereafter, a detailed and 
comprehensive summary of the specific objec-
tives with respect to the negotiations, and a de-
scription of how the agreement, if successfully 
concluded, will further those objectives and ben-
efit the United States. 
(2) 
NEGOTIATIONS
REGARDING
AGRI-
CULTURE.— 
(A) ASSESSMENT
AND
CONSULTATIONS 
FOLLOWING ASSESSMENT.—Before initiating or 
continuing negotiations the subject matter of 
which is directly related to the subject matter 
under section 2(b)(3)(B) with any country, the 
President shall— 
(i) assess whether United States tar-
iffs on agricultural products that were 
bound under the Uruguay Round Agree-
ments are lower than the tariffs bound by 
that country; 
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