I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3830 
To establish congressional trade negotiating objectives and enhanced consulta-
tion requirements for trade negotiations, to provide for consideration 
of trade agreements, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2014 
Mr. CAMP (for himself, Mr. SESSIONS, and Mr. NUNES) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 
and in addition to the Committees on Rules and the Budget, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To establish congressional trade negotiating objectives and 
enhanced consultation requirements for trade negotia-
tions, to provide for consideration of trade agreements, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bipartisan Congres-
sional Trade Priorities Act of 2014’’. 
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SEC. 2. TRADE NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES. 
(a) OVERALL TRADE NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES.— 
The overall trade negotiating objectives of the United 
States for agreements subject to the provisions of section 
3 are— 
(1) to obtain more open, equitable, and recip-
rocal market access; 
(2) to obtain the reduction or elimination of 
barriers and distortions that are directly related to 
trade and investment and that decrease market op-
portunities for United States exports or otherwise 
distort United States trade; 
(3) to further strengthen the system of inter-
national trade and investment disciplines and proce-
dures, including dispute settlement; 
(4) to foster economic growth, raise living 
standards, enhance the competitiveness of the 
United States, promote full employment in the 
United States, and enhance the global economy; 
(5) to ensure that trade and environmental poli-
cies are mutually supportive and to seek to protect 
and preserve the environment and enhance the inter-
national means of doing so, while optimizing the use 
of the world’s resources; 
(6) to promote respect for worker rights and 
the rights of children consistent with core labor 
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standards of the ILO (as set out in section 11(7)) 
and an understanding of the relationship between 
trade and worker rights; 
(7) to seek provisions in trade agreements 
under which parties to those agreements ensure that 
they do not weaken or reduce the protections af-
forded in domestic environmental and labor laws as 
an encouragement for trade; 
(8) to ensure that trade agreements afford 
small businesses equal access to international mar-
kets, equitable trade benefits, and expanded export 
market opportunities, and provide for the reduction 
or elimination of trade and investment barriers that 
disproportionately impact small businesses; 
(9) to promote universal ratification and full 
compliance with ILO Convention No. 182 Con-
cerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for 
the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor; 
(10) to ensure that trade agreements reflect 
and facilitate the increasingly interrelated, multi-sec-
toral nature of trade and investment activity; 
(11) to ensure implementation of trade commit-
ments and obligations by strengthening the effective 
operation of legal regimes and the rule of law by 
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trading partners of the United States through ca-
pacity building and other appropriate means; 
(12) to recognize the growing significance of 
the Internet as a trading platform in international 
commerce; and 
(13) to take into account other legitimate 
United States domestic objectives, including, but not 
limited to, the protection of legitimate health or 
safety, essential security, and consumer interests 
and the law and regulations related thereto. 
(b) PRINCIPAL TRADE NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES.— 
(1) TRADE IN GOODS.—The principal negoti-
ating objectives of the United States regarding trade 
in goods are— 
(A) to expand competitive market opportu-
nities for exports of goods from the United 
States and to obtain fairer and more open con-
ditions of trade, including through the utiliza-
tion of global value chains, by reducing or elimi-
nating tariff and nontariff barriers and policies 
and practices of foreign governments directly 
related to trade that decrease market opportu-
nities for United States exports or otherwise 
distort United States trade; and 
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(B) to obtain reciprocal tariff and non-
tariff barrier elimination agreements, including 
with respect to those tariff categories covered in 
section 111(b) of the Uruguay Round Agree-
ments Act (19 U.S.C. 3521(b)). 
(2) TRADE
IN
SERVICES.—(A) The principal 
negotiating objective of the United States regarding 
trade in services is to expand competitive market op-
portunities for United States services and to obtain 
fairer and more open conditions of trade, including 
through utilization of global value chains, by reduc-
ing or eliminating barriers to international trade in 
services, such as regulatory and other barriers that 
deny national treatment and market access or un-
reasonably restrict the establishment or operations 
of service suppliers. 
(B) Recognizing that expansion of trade in 
services generates benefits for all sectors of the 
economy and facilitates trade, the objective described 
in subparagraph (A) should be pursued through all 
means, including through a plurilateral agreement 
with those countries willing and able to undertake 
high standard services commitments for both exist-
ing and new services. 
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(3) TRADE
IN
AGRICULTURE.—The principal 
negotiating objective of the United States with re-
spect to agriculture is to obtain competitive opportu-
nities for United States exports of agricultural com-
modities in foreign markets substantially equivalent 
to the competitive opportunities afforded foreign ex-
ports in United States markets and to achieve fairer 
and more open conditions of trade in bulk, specialty 
crop, and value added commodities by— 
(A) securing more open and equitable mar-
ket access through robust rules on sanitary and 
phytosanitary measures that— 
(i) encourage the adoption of inter-
national standards and require a science- 
based justification be provided for a sani-
tary or phytosanitary measure if the meas-
ure is more restrictive than the applicable 
international standard; 
(ii) improve regulatory coherence, pro-
mote the use of systems-based approaches, 
and appropriately recognize the equivalence 
of health and safety protection systems of 
exporting countries; 
(iii) require that measures are trans-
parently developed and implemented, are 
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