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apprised of the negotiations, the congressional advisers for
trade policy and negotiations appointed under section 161
of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2211), the Commit-
tee on Finance of the Senate, and the Committee on Ways
and Means of the House of Representatives.
SEC. 5. IMPLEMENTATION OF TRADE AGREEMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) NOTIFICATION
AND
SUBMISSION.—Any
agreement entered into under section 3(b) shall
enter into force with respect to the United States if
(and only if)—
(A) the President, at least 90 calendar
days before the day on which the President en-
ters into the trade agreement, notifies the
House of Representatives and the Senate of the
President’s intention to enter into the agree-
ment, and promptly thereafter publishes notice
of such intention in the Federal Register;
(B) within 60 calendar days after entering
into the agreement, the President submits to
Congress a description of those changes to ex-
isting laws that the President considers would
be required in order to bring the United States
into compliance with the agreement;
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(C) after entering into the agreement, the
President submits a copy of the final legal text
of the agreement, together with—
(i) a draft of an implementing bill de-
scribed in section 3(b)(3);
(ii) a statement of any administrative
action proposed to implement the trade
agreement; and
(iii) the supporting information de-
scribed in paragraph (2); and
(D) the implementing bill is enacted into
law.
(2) SUPPORTING INFORMATION.—The support-
ing information required under paragraph (1)(C)(iii)
consists of—
(A) an explanation as to how the imple-
menting bill and proposed administrative action
will change or affect existing law; and
(B) a statement—
(i) asserting that the agreement
makes progress in achieving the applicable
purposes, policies, and objectives of this
Act; and
(ii) setting forth the reasons of the
President regarding—
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(I) how and to what extent the
agreement makes progress in achiev-
ing the applicable purposes, policies,
and objectives referred to in clause (i),
and why and to what extent the
agreement does not achieve other ap-
plicable purposes, policies, and objec-
tives;
(II) whether and how the agree-
ment changes provisions of an agree-
ment previously negotiated;
(III) how the agreement serves
the interests of United States com-
merce;
(IV) why the implementing bill
qualifies for trade agreement approval
procedures under section 3(b)(3); and
(V) any proposed administrative
action.
(3) RECIPROCAL BENEFITS.—To ensure that a
foreign country which receives benefits under a trade
agreement entered into under section 3 (a) or (b) is
subject to the obligations imposed by such agree-
ment, the President shall recommend to Congress in
the implementing bill and statement of administra-
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tive action submitted with respect to such agreement
that the benefits and obligations of such agreement
apply solely to the parties to such agreement, if such
application is consistent with the terms of such
agreement. The President may also recommend with
respect to any such agreement that the benefits and
obligations of such agreement not apply uniformly to
all parties to such agreement, if such application is
consistent with the terms of such agreement.
(b) LIMITATIONS ON TRADE AGREEMENT APPROVAL
PROCEDURES.—
(1) DISAPPROVAL OF THE NEGOTIATION.—The
trade agreement approval procedures shall not apply
to any implementing bill that contains a provision
approving any trade agreement that is entered into
under section 3(b) with any foreign country if the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means of the House of Rep-
resentatives disapprove of the negotiation of the
agreement before the close of the 90-calendar-day
period that begins on the date notice is provided
under section 4(a)(1) with respect to the negotiation
of such agreement.
(2) FOR
LACK
OF
NOTICE
OR
CONSULTA-
TIONS.—
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—The trade agreement
approval procedures shall not apply to any im-
plementing bill submitted with respect to a
trade agreement entered into under section 3(b)
if during the 60-day period beginning on the
date that one House of Congress agrees to a
procedural disapproval resolution for lack of no-
tice or consultations with respect to that trade
agreement, the other House separately agrees
to a procedural disapproval resolution with re-
spect to that agreement.
(B) PROCEDURAL DISAPPROVAL RESOLU-
TION.—For purposes of this paragraph, the
term ‘‘procedural disapproval resolution’’ means
a resolution of either House of Congress, the
sole matter after the resolving clause of which
is as follows: ‘‘That the President has failed or
refused to notify or consult (as the case may
be) with Congress in accordance with sections 4
and 5 of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
of 1997 with respect to ll and, therefore, the
trade agreement approval procedures set forth
in section 3(b) of that Act shall not apply to
any implementing bill submitted with respect to
that trade agreement.’’, with the blank space
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being filled with a description of the trade
agreement with respect to which the President
is considered to have failed or refused to notify
or consult.
(C) COMPUTATION OF CERTAIN PERIODS
OF TIME.—The 60-day period of time described
in subparagraph (A) shall be computed without
regard to—
(i) the days on which either House of
Congress is not in session because of an
adjournment of more than 3 days to a day
certain or an adjournment of the Congress
sine die; and
(ii) any Saturday and Sunday, not ex-
cluded under clause (i), when either House
of Congress is not in session.
(3) PROCEDURES
FOR
CONSIDERING
PROCE-
DURAL DISAPPROVAL RESOLUTIONS.—
(A) PROCEDURAL
DISAPPROVAL
RESOLU-
TIONS.—Procedural disapproval resolutions—
(i) in the House of Representatives—
(I) shall be introduced by the
chairman or ranking minority member
of the Committee on Ways and Means
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or the chairman or ranking minority
member of the Committee on Rules;
(II) shall be jointly referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means
and the Committee on Rules; and
(III) may not be amended by ei-
ther Committee; and
(ii) in the Senate shall be original res-
olutions of the Committee on Finance.
(B) FLOOR CONSIDERATION.—The provi-
sions of section 152 (d) and (e) of the Trade
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192 (d) and (e)) (re-
lating to the floor consideration of certain reso-
lutions in the House and Senate) apply to pro-
cedural disapproval resolutions.
(C) COMMITTEE ACTION REQUIRED.—
(i) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—It
is not in order for the House of Represent-
atives to consider any procedural dis-
approval resolution not reported by the
Committee on Ways and Means and the
Committee on Rules.
(ii) SENATE.—It is not in order for
the Senate to consider any procedural dis-
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approval resolution not reported by the
Committee on Finance.
(c) RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND
SENATE.—Subsection (b) of this section and section 3(c)
are enacted by Congress—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the House of Representatives and the Senate, re-
spectively, and as such are deemed a part of the
rules of each House, respectively, and such proce-
dures supersede other rules only to the extent that
they are inconsistent with such other rules; and
(2) with the full recognition of the constitu-
tional right of either House to change the rules (so
far as relating to the procedures of that House) at
any time, in the same manner, and to the same ex-
tent as any other rule of that House.
SEC. 6. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TRADE AGREEMENTS.
(a) 
IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 
section
3(a)(6)(B) and section 3(b)(2), the provisions of section
4(a) shall not apply with respect to agreements that result
from—
(1) negotiations under the auspices of the
World Trade Organization regarding trade in infor-
mation technology products;
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(2) negotiations or work programs initiated
pursuant to a Uruguay Round Agreement, as de-
fined in section 2 of the Uruguay Round Agree-
ments Act; or
(3) negotiations with Chile,
that were commenced before the date of enactment of this
Act, and the applicability of trade agreement approval pro-
cedures with respect to such agreements shall be deter-
mined without regard to the requirements of section 4(a).
(b) PROCEDURAL DISAPPROVAL RESOLUTION NOT
IN ORDER.—A procedural disapproval resolution under
section 5(b) shall not be in order with respect to an agree-
ment described in subsection (a) of this section based on
a failure or refusal to comply with section 4(a).
SEC. 7. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Trade Act of 1974
(19 U.S.C. 2111 et seq.) is amended as follows:
(1) IMPLEMENTING BILL.—
(A) 
Section 
151(b)(1) 
(19 
U.S.C.
2191(b)(1)) is amended—
(i) by striking ‘‘section 1103(a)(1) of
the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness
Act of 1988, or section 282 of the Uru-
guay Round Agreements Act’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘section 282 of the Uruguay Round
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Agreements Act, or section 5(a)(1) of the
Reciprocal 
Trade 
Agreements 
Act 
of
1997’’; and
(ii) by adding after subparagraph (C)
the following flush sentence:
‘‘For purposes of applying this paragraph to imple-
menting bills submitted with respect to trade agree-
ments entered into under section 3(b) of the Recip-
rocal Trade Agreements Act of 1997, subparagraphs
(A), (B), and (C) of section 3(b)(3) of such Act shall
be substituted for subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C)
of this paragraph.’’.
(B) 
Section 
151(c)(1) 
(19 
U.S.C.
2191(c)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘or section
282 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act’’
and inserting ‘‘, section 282 of the Uruguay
Round Agreements Act, or section 5(a)(1) of
the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1997’’.
(2) ADVICE FROM INTERNATIONAL TRADE COM-
MISSION.—Section 131 (19 U.S.C. 2151) is amend-
ed—
(A) in subsection (a)—
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘sec-
tion 123 of this Act or section 1102 (a) or
(c) of the Omnibus Trade and Competitive-
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ness Act of 1988,’’ and inserting ‘‘section
123 of this Act or section 3 (a) or (b) of
the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of
1997,’’; and
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘sec-
tion 1102 (b) or (c) of the Omnibus Trade
and Competitiveness Act of 1988’’ and in-
serting ‘‘section 3(b) of the Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Act of 1997’’;
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘section
1102(a)(3)(A)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘section
3(a)(3)(A) of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Act of 1997’’ before the end period; and
(C) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘section
1102 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitive-
ness Act of 1988,’’ and inserting ‘‘section 3 of
the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of
1997,’’.
(3) HEARINGS
AND
ADVICE.—Sections 132,
133(a), and 134(a) (19 U.S.C. 2152, 2153(a), and
2154(a)) are each amended by striking ‘‘section
1102 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness
Act of 1988,’’ each place it appears and inserting
‘‘section 3 of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
of 1997,’’.
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(4) PREREQUISITES
FOR
OFFERS.—Section
134(b) (19 U.S.C. 2154(b)) is amended by striking
‘‘section 1102 of the Omnibus Trade and Competi-
tiveness Act of 1988’’ and inserting ‘‘section 3 of the
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1997’’.
(5) ADVICE FROM PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SEC-
TORS.—Section 135 (19 U.S.C. 2155) is amended—
(A) in subsection (a)(1)(A), by striking
‘‘section 1102 of the Omnibus Trade and Com-
petitiveness Act of 1988’’ and inserting ‘‘section
3 of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of
1997’’;
(B) in subsection (e)(1)—
(i) by striking ‘‘section 1102 of the
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988’’ each place it appears and insert-
ing ‘‘section 3 of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act of 1997’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘section 1103(a)(1)(A)
of such Act of 1988’’ and inserting ‘‘sec-
tion 5(a)(1)(A) of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act of 1997’’; and
(C) in subsection (e)(2), by striking ‘‘the
applicable overall and principal negotiating ob-
jectives set forth in section 1101 of the Omni-
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bus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988’’
and inserting ‘‘the purposes, policies, and objec-
tives set forth in section 2 (a) and (b) of the
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1997’’.
(6) TRANSMISSION OF AGREEMENTS TO CON-
GRESS.—Section 162(a) (19 U.S.C. 2212(a)) is
amended by striking ‘‘or under section 1102 of the
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988’’
and inserting ‘‘or under section 3 of the Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Act of 1997’’.
(b) APPLICATION
OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS.—For
purposes of applying sections 125, 126, and 127 of the
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2135, 2136(a), and
2137)—
(1) any trade agreement entered into under sec-
tion 3 shall be treated as an agreement entered into
under section 101 or 102, as appropriate, of the
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2111 or 2112); and
(2) any proclamation or Executive order issued
pursuant to a trade agreement entered into under
section 3 shall be treated as a proclamation or Exec-
utive order issued pursuant to a trade agreement en-
tered into under section 102 of the Trade Act of
1974.
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SEC. 8. TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 245 of the Trade
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2317) is amended—
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘1993,
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and’’ and inserting
‘‘1999, and 2000,’’ after ‘‘1998,’’; and
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘1994,
1995, 1996, 1997, and’’ and inserting ‘‘1999,
and 2000,’’ after ‘‘1998,’’.
(2) ASSISTANCE FOR FIRMS.—Section 256(b) of
the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2346(b)) is
amended by striking ‘‘1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
1997, and’’ and inserting ‘‘, 1999, and 2000,’’ after
‘‘1998’’.
(b) TERMINATION.—Section 285(c) of the Trade Act
of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2271 note preceding) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘1998’’ and
inserting ‘‘2000’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘the day
that is’’ and all that follows through ‘‘effective’’ and
inserting ‘‘September 30, 2000’’.
SEC. 9. FEES FOR CERTAIN CUSTOMS SERVICES.
Section 13031(b)(1)(C) of the Consolidated Omnibus
Budget 
Reconciliation 
Act 
of 
1985 
(19 
U.S.C.
58c(b)(1)(C)) is amended by striking ‘‘to fiscal years’’ and
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all that follows through ‘‘1997’’ and inserting ‘‘before Sep-
tember 1, 1998’’.
SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) DISTORTION.—The term ‘‘distortion’’ in-
cludes, but is not limited to, a subsidy.
(2) TRADE.—The term ‘‘trade’’ includes, but is
not limited to—
(A) trade in both goods and services; and
(B) foreign investment by United States
persons, especially if such investment has impli-
cations for trade in goods and services.
(3) URUGUAY
ROUND
AGREEMENTS.— The
term ‘‘Uruguay Round Agreements’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 2(7) of the Uruguay
Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3501(7).
(4) WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION.—The term
‘‘World Trade Organization’’ means the organization
established pursuant to the WTO Agreement.
(5) WTO 
AGREEMENT.—The term ‘‘WTO
Agreement’’ means the Agreement Establishing the
World Trade Organization entered into on April 15,
1994.
(6) WTO AND
WTO
MEMBER.—The terms
‘‘WTO’’ and ‘‘WTO member’’ have the meanings
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given those terms in section 2 of the Uruguay
Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3501).
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