rules are subject to efficient, timely, and effective 
dispute settlement, including— 
(i) unfair or trade distorting activities 
of state trading enterprises and other ad-
ministrative mechanisms, with emphasis on 
requiring price transparency in the oper-
ation of state trading enterprises and such 
other mechanisms in order to end cross sub-
sidization, price discrimination, and price 
undercutting; 
(ii) unjustified trade restrictions or 
commercial requirements, such as labeling, 
that affect new technologies, including bio-
technology; 
(iii) 
unjustified 
sanitary 
or 
phytosanitary restrictions, including re-
strictions not based on scientific principles 
in contravention of obligations in the Uru-
guay Round Agreements or bilateral or re-
gional trade agreements; 
(iv) other unjustified technical barriers 
to trade; and 
(v) restrictive rules in the administra-
tion of tariff rate quotas; 
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(J) eliminating practices that adversely af-
fect trade in perishable or cyclical products, 
while improving import relief mechanisms to 
recognize the unique characteristics of perishable 
and cyclical agriculture; 
(K) ensuring that import relief mechanisms 
for perishable and cyclical agriculture are as ac-
cessible and timely to growers in the United 
States as those mechanisms that are used by 
other countries; 
(L) taking into account whether a party to 
the negotiations has failed to adhere to the provi-
sions of already existing trade agreements with 
the United States or has circumvented obliga-
tions under those agreements; 
(M) taking into account whether a product 
is subject to market distortions by reason of a 
failure of a major producing country to adhere 
to the provisions of already existing trade agree-
ments with the United States or by the cir-
cumvention by that country of its obligations 
under those agreements; 
(N) otherwise ensuring that countries that 
accede to the World Trade Organization have 
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made meaningful market liberalization commit-
ments in agriculture; 
(O) taking into account the impact that 
agreements covering agriculture to which the 
United States is a party have on the United 
States agricultural industry; 
(P) maintaining bona fide food assistance 
programs, market development programs, and 
export credit programs; 
(Q) seeking to secure the broadest market 
access possible in multilateral, regional, and bi-
lateral negotiations, recognizing the effect that si-
multaneous sets of negotiations may have on 
United States import sensitive commodities (in-
cluding those subject to tariff rate quotas); 
(R) seeking to develop an international con-
sensus on the treatment of seasonal or perishable 
agricultural products in investigations relating 
to dumping and safeguards and in any other rel-
evant area; 
(S) seeking to establish the common base 
year for calculating the Aggregated Measurement 
of Support (as defined in the Agreement on Agri-
culture) as the end of each country’s Uruguay 
Round implementation period, as reported in 
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