(A) its views regarding the progress that
has been made in negotiations to achieve the
purposes, policies, and objectives of this title;
and
(B) a statement of its views, and the rea-
sons therefor, regarding whether the extension
requested under paragraph (2) should be ap-
proved or disapproved.
(4) REPORTS
MAY
BE
CLASSIFIED.—The re-
ports submitted to the Congress under paragraphs
(2) and (3), or any portion of such reports, may be
classified to the extent the President determines ap-
propriate.
(5) EXTENSION DISAPPROVAL RESOLUTIONS.—
(A) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term ‘‘exten-
sion disapproval resolution’’ means a resolution of
either House of the Congress, the sole matter after
the resolving clause of which is as follows: ‘‘That the
ll disapproves the request of the President for
the extension, under section 103(c)(1)(B)(i) of the
Reciprocal Trade Agreement Authorities Act of
1997, of the provisions of section 151 of the Trade
Act of 1974 to any implementing bill submitted with
respect to any trade agreement entered into under
section 103(b) of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement
Authorities Act of 1997 after September 30, 2001.’’,
with the blank space being filled with the name of
the resolving House of the Congress.
(B) Extension disapproval resolutions—
(i) may be introduced in either House of
the Congress by any member of such House;
and
(ii) shall be jointly referred, in the House
of Representatives, to the Committee on Ways
and Means and the Committee on Rules.
(C) The provisions of sections 152(d) and (e) of
the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192(d) and (e))
(relating to the floor consideration of certain resolu-
tions in the House and Senate) apply to extension
disapproval resolutions.
(D) It is not in order for—
(i) the Senate to consider any extension
disapproval resolution not reported by the Com-
mittee on Finance;
(ii) the House of Representatives to con-
sider any extension disapproval resolution not
reported by the Committee on Ways and Means
and the Committee on Rules; or
(iii) either House of the Congress to con-
sider an extension disapproval resolution after
September 30, 2001.
SEC. 104. CONSULTATIONS.
(a) NOTICE AND CONSULTATION BEFORE NEGOTIA-
TION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President, with respect
to any agreement that is subject to the provisions of
section 103(b), shall—
(A) provide, at least 90 calendar days be-
fore initiating negotiations, written notice to the
Congress of the President’s intention to enter
into the negotiations and set forth therein the
date the President intends to initiate such nego-
tiations, the specific United States objectives
for the negotiations, and whether the President
intends to seek an agreement, or changes to an
existing agreement; and
(B) before and after submission of the no-
tice, consult regarding the negotiations with the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the
Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives and such other committees of
the House and Senate as the President deems
appropriate.
(2) CONSULTATIONS
REGARDING
NEGOTIA-
TIONS ON CERTAIN OBJECTIVES.—
(A) CONSULTATION.—In addition to the
requirements set forth in paragraph (1), before
initiating negotiations with respect to a trade
agreement entered into under section 103(b) in
which the subject matter is directly related to
the principal trade negotiating objectives set
forth in section 2(b)(1) or section 102(b)(7),
the President shall consult with the Committee
on Ways and Means of the House of Represent-
atives and the Committee on Finance of the
Senate and with the appropriate industry sector
advisory groups established under section 135
of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to such
negotiations.
(B) SCOPE.—The consultations described
in subparagraph (A) shall concern the manner
in which the negotiation will address the objec-
tive of reducing or eliminating a specific tariff
or nontariff barrier or foreign government pol-
icy or practice directly related to trade that de-
creases market opportunities for United States
exports or otherwise distorts United States
trade.
(3) 
NEGOTIATIONS
REGARDING
AGRI-
CULTURE.—Before initiating negotiations under sec-
tion 102(b)(6)(A) with any country, the President
shall assess whether United States tariffs on agri-
culture products that were bound under the Uru-
guay Round Agreements are lower than the tariffs
bound by that country. In addition, the President
shall consider whether the tariff levels bound and
applied throughout the world with respect to imports
from the United States are higher than United
States tariffs and whether the negotiation provides
an opportunity to address any such disparity. The
President shall consult with the Committee on Ways
and Means and the Committee on Agriculture of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Fi-
nance and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition,
and Forestry of the Senate concerning the results of
the assessment, whether it is appropriate for the
United States to agree to further tariff reductions
based on the conclusions reached in the assessment,
and how all applicable negotiating objectives will be
met.
(b) CONSULTATION
WITH
CONGRESS
BEFORE
AGREEMENTS ENTERED INTO.—
(1) CONSULTATION.—Before entering into any
trade agreement under section 103(b), the President
shall consult with—
(A) the Committee on Ways and Means of
the House of Representatives and the Commit-
tee on Finance of the Senate; and
(B) each other committee of the House
and the Senate, and each joint committee of the
Congress, which has jurisdiction over legislation
involving subject matters which would be af-
fected by the trade agreement.
(2) SCOPE.—The consultation described in
paragraph (1) shall include consultation with respect
to—
(A) the nature of the agreement;
(B) how and to what extent the agreement
will achieve the applicable purposes, policies,
and objectives of this title; and
(C) the implementation of the agreement
under section 105.
(c) ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORTS.—The report
required under section 135(e)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974
regarding any trade agreement entered into under section
103(a) or (b) of this Act shall be provided to the Presi-
dent, the Congress, and the United States Trade Rep-
resentative not later than 30 days after the date on which
the President notifies the Congress under section
103(a)(1) or 105(a)(1)(A) of the President’s intention to
enter into the agreement.
SEC. 105. IMPLEMENTATION OF TRADE AGREEMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) NOTIFICATION
AND
SUBMISSION.—Any
agreement entered into under section 103(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 days after entering into the
agreement, the President submits to the Con-
gress a description of those changes to existing
laws that the President considers would be re-
quired in order to bring the United States into
compliance with the agreement;
(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 103(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
title;
(ii) setting forth the reasons of the
President regarding—
(I) how and to what extent the
agreement makes progress in achiev-
ing the applicable purposes, policies,
and objectives referred to in clause (i);
(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; and
(IV) how the implementing bill
complies with section 103(b)(3).
(3) RECIPROCAL BENEFITS.—In order to en-
sure that a foreign country that is not a party to a
trade agreement entered into under section 103(b)
does not receive benefits under the agreement unless
the country is also subject to the obligations under
the agreement, the implementing bill submitted with
respect to the agreement shall provide that the bene-
fits and obligations under the agreement apply only
to the parties to the agreement, if such application
is consistent with the terms of the agreement. The
implementing bill may also provide that the benefits
and obligations under the agreement do not apply
uniformly to all parties to the agreement, if such ap-
plication is consistent with the terms of the agree-
ment.
(b) LIMITATIONS ON TRADE AUTHORITIES PROCE-
DURES.—
(1) FOR LACK OF CONSULTATIONS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The trade authorities
procedures shall not apply to any implementing
bill submitted with respect to a trade agreement
entered into under section 103(b) if during the
60-day period beginning on the date that one
House of Congress agrees to a procedural dis-
approval resolution for lack of notice or con-
sultations with respect to that trade agreement,
the other House separately agrees to a proce-
dural disapproval resolution with respect 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 section
104 or 105 of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement
Authorities Act of 1997 on negotiations with re-
spect to, or entering into, a trade agreement to
which section 103(b) of that Act applies and,
therefore, the provisions of section 151 of the
Trade Act of 1974 shall not apply to any imple-
menting bill submitted with respect to that
trade agreement.’’.
(2) PROCEDURES FOR CONSIDERING RESOLU-
TIONS.—(A) Procedural disapproval resolutions—
(i) in the House of Representatives—
(I) shall be introduced by the chair-
man or ranking minority member of the
Committee on Ways and Means 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 either
Committee; and
(ii) in the Senate shall be original resolu-
tions of the Committee on Finance.
(B) The provisions of section 152(d) and (e) of
the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192(d) and (e))
(relating to the floor consideration of certain resolu-
tions in the House and Senate) apply to procedural
disapproval resolutions.
(C) It is not in order for the House of Rep-
resentatives to consider any procedural disapproval
resolution not reported by the Committee on Ways
and Means and the Committee on Rules.
(c) RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND
SENATE.—Subsection (b) of this section and section
103(c) are enacted by the 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. 106. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TRADE AGREEMENTS.
(a) CERTAIN AGREEMENTS.—Notwithstanding sec-
tion 103(b)(2), if an agreement to which section 103(b)
applies—
(1) is entered into under the auspices of the
World Trade Organization regarding trade in infor-
mation technology products,
(2) is entered into under the auspices of the
World Trade Organization regarding extended nego-
tiations on financial services as described in section
135(a) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19
U.S.C. 3555(a)),
(3) is entered into under the auspices of the
World Trade Organization regarding the rules of ori-
gin work program described in Article 9 of the
Agreement on Rules of Origin referred to in section
101(d)(10) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act
(19 U.S.C. 3511(d)(10)), or
(4) is entered into with Chile,
and results from negotiations that were commenced before
the date of the enactment of this Act, subsection (b) shall
apply.
(b) TREATMENT OF AGREEMENTS.—In the case of
any agreement to which subsection (a) applies—
(1) the applicability of the trade authorities
procedures to implementing bills for be determined
without regard to the requirements of section
104(a), and any procedural disapproval resolution
under section 105(b)(1)(B) shall not be in order
with respect to the provisions of section 104(a); and
(2) consultations under section 104(a) that
would be required prior to initiation of negotiations
shall be made as soon as feasible after the enact-
ment of this Act.
SEC. 107. 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 by striking ‘‘section
1103(a)(1) of the Omnibus Trade and Competi-
tiveness Act of 1988, or section 282 of the Uru-
guay Round Agreements Act’’ and inserting
‘‘section 282 of the Uruguay Round Agree-
ments Act, or section 105(a)(1) of the Recip-
rocal Trade Agreement Authorities Act of
1997’’.
(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 105(a)(1) of
the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Authorities
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-
ness Act of 1988,’’ and inserting ‘‘section
123 of this Act or section 103(a) or (b) of
the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Authori-
ties 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 103(b) of the Reciprocal
Trade 
Agreement 
Authorities 
Act 
of
1997’’;
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘section
1102(a)(3)(A)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘section
103(a)(3)(A) of the Reciprocal Trade Agree-
ment Authorities 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 103
of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Authorities
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 103 of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Au-
thorities Act of 1997,’’.
(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 103 of
the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Authorities 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
103 of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Au-
thorities 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 103 of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreement Authorities Act of 1997’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘section 1103(a)(1)(A)
of such Act of 1988’’ and inserting ‘‘sec-
tion 105(a)(1)(A) of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreement Authorities Act of 1997’’; and
(C) in subsection (e)(2), by striking ‘‘sec-
tion 1101 of the Omnibus Trade and Competi-
tiveness Act of 1988’’ and inserting ‘‘section
102 of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Au-
thorities 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 103 of the Recip-
rocal Trade Agreement Authorities 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)—