(ii) consider whether the tariff levels 
bound and applied throughout the world 
with respect to imports from the United 
States are higher than United States tar-
iffs and whether the negotiation provides 
an opportunity to address any such dis-
parity; and 
(iii) consult with the Committee on 
Ways and Means and the Committee on 
Agriculture of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Finance and 
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry of the Senate concerning the 
results of the assessment, whether it is ap-
propriate for the United States to agree to 
further tariff reductions based on the con-
clusions reached in the assessment, and 
how all applicable negotiating objectives 
will be met. 
(B) SPECIAL CONSULTATIONS ON IMPORT 
SENSITIVE PRODUCTS.—(i) Before initiating ne-
gotiations with regard to agriculture and, with 
respect to agreements described in paragraphs 
(2) and (3) of section 7(a), as soon as prac-
ticable after the date of the enactment of this 
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Act, the United States Trade Representative 
shall— 
(I) identify those agricultural products 
subject to tariff rate quotas on the date of 
enactment of this Act, and agricultural 
products subject to tariff reductions by the 
United States as a result of the Uruguay 
Round Agreements, for which the rate of 
duty was reduced on January 1, 1995, to 
a rate which was not less than 97.5 per-
cent of the rate of duty that applied to 
such article on December 31, 1994; 
(II) consult with the Committee on 
Ways and Means and the Committee on 
Agriculture of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Finance and 
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry of the Senate concerning— 
(aa) whether any further tariff 
reductions on the products identified 
under subclause (I) should be appro-
priate, taking into account the impact 
of any such tariff reduction on the 
United States industry producing the 
product concerned; 
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(bb) whether the products so 
identified face unjustified sanitary or 
phytosanitary restrictions, including 
those not based on scientific principles 
in contravention of the Uruguay 
Round Agreements; and 
(cc) whether the countries par-
ticipating in the negotiations maintain 
export subsidies or other programs, 
policies, or practices that distort world 
trade in such products and the impact 
of such programs, policies, and prac-
tices on United States producers of 
the products; 
(III) request that the International 
Trade Commission prepare an assessment 
of the probable economic effects of any 
such tariff reduction on the United States 
industry producing the product concerned 
and on the United States economy as a 
whole; and 
(IV) upon complying with subclauses 
(I), (II), and (III), notify the Committee 
on Ways and Means and the Committee on 
Agriculture of the House of Representa-
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tives and the Committee on Finance and 
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry of the Senate of those prod-
ucts identified under subclause (I) for 
which the Trade Representative intends to 
seek tariff liberalization in the negotiations 
and the reasons for seeking such tariff lib-
eralization. 
(ii) If, after negotiations described in 
clause (i) are commenced— 
(I) the United States Trade Rep-
resentative identifies any additional agri-
cultural product described in clause (i)(I) 
for tariff reductions which were not the 
subject of a notification under clause 
(i)(IV), or 
(II) any additional agricultural prod-
uct described in clause (i)(I) is the subject 
of a request for tariff reductions by a 
party to the negotiations, 
the Trade Representative shall, as soon as prac-
ticable, notify the committees referred to in 
clause (i)(IV) of those products and the reasons 
for seeking such tariff reductions. 
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