H. R. 4950
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four
An Act
To extend the authorities of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Jobs Through Trade Expansion
Act of 1994’’.
TITLE I—OVERSEAS PRIVATE
INVESTMENT CORPORATION
SEC. 101. RAISING CEILING ON INSURANCE.
Section 235(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2195(a)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘$9,000,000,000’’ and
inserting ‘‘$13,500,000,000’’.
SEC. 102. RAISING CEILING ON FINANCING.
Section 235(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2195(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(2) FINANCING.—(A) The maximum contingent liability
outstanding at any one time pursuant to financing issued under
subsections (b) and (c) of section 234 shall not exceed in the
aggregate $9,500,000,000.
‘‘(B) Subject to spending authority provided in appropria-
tions Acts pursuant to section 504(b) of the Federal Credit
Reform Act of 1990, the Corporation is authorized to transfer
such sums as are necessary from its noncredit activities to
pay for the subsidy cost of the investment guaranties and
direct loan programs under subsections (b) and (c) of section
234.’’.
SEC. 103. EXTENDING ISSUING AUTHORITY.
Section 235(a)(3) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2195(a)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘1994’’ and inserting
‘‘1996’’.
SEC. 104. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.
Section 235 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2195) is amended by striking subsection (g).
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SEC. 105. EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTAIN COUNTRIES.
Paragraph (2) of the second undesignated paragraph of section
231 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2191) is
amended by inserting after ‘‘Recovery Act (19 U.S.C. 2702)’’ the
following: ‘‘, Ireland, and Northern Ireland’’.
TITLE II—TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
AGENCY
SEC. 201. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.
Section 661(f)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2421(f)(1)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘There are authorized’’ and inserting ‘‘(A)
There are authorized’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘$55,000,000’’ and all that follows and insert-
ing ‘‘$77,000,000 for fiscal year 1995 and such sums as are
necessary for fiscal year 1996.’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(B) Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization
of appropriations under subparagraph (A) are authorized to
remain available until expended.’’.
TITLE III—EXPORT PROMOTION PRO-
GRAMS WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL
TRADE ADMINISTRATION
SEC. 301. EXPORT PROMOTION AUTHORIZATION.
Section 202 of the Export Administration Amendments Act
of 1985 (15 U.S.C. 4052) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 202. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department
of Commerce to carry out export promotion programs such sums
as are necessary for fiscal years 1995 and 1996.’’.
TITLE IV—PROMOTION OF UNITED
STATES ENVIRONMENTAL EXPORTS
SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Environmental Export Promotion
Act of 1994’’.
SEC. 402. PROMOTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPORTS.
(a) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES TRADE ADVISORY COM-
MITTEE.—Section 2313 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988
(15 U.S.C. 4728) is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (d);
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (e); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
‘‘(c) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES TRADE ADVISORY COMMIT-
TEE.—
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‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
AND
PURPOSE.—The Secretary, in
carrying out the duties of the chairperson of the TPCC, shall
establish the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory
Committee (hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘Commit-
tee’). The purpose of the Committee shall be to provide advice
and guidance to the Working Group in the development and
administration of programs to expand United States exports
of environmental technologies, goods, and services and products
that comply with United States environmental, safety, and
related requirements.
‘‘(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The members of the Committee shall
be drawn from representatives of—
‘‘(A) 
environmental 
businesses, 
including 
small
businesses;
‘‘(B) trade associations in the environmental sector;
‘‘(C) private sector organizations involved in the pro-
motion of environmental exports, including products that
comply with United States environmental, safety, and
related requirements;
‘‘(D) States (as defined in section 2301(i)(5)) and
associations representing the States; and
‘‘(E) other appropriate interested members of the pub-
lic, including labor representatives.
The Secretary shall appoint as members of the Committee
at least 1 individual under each of subparagraphs (A) through
(E).
‘‘(d) EXPORT PLANS FOR PRIORITY COUNTRIES.—
‘‘(1) PRIORITY
COUNTRY
IDENTIFICATION.—The Working
Group, in consultation with the Committee, shall annually
assess which foreign countries have markets with the greatest
potential for the export of United States environmental tech-
nologies, goods, and services. Of these countries the Working
Group shall select as priority countries 5 with the greatest
potential for the application of United States Government
export promotion resources related to environmental exports.
‘‘(2) EXPORT PLANS.—The Working Group, in consultation
with the Committee, shall annually create a plan for each
priority country selected under paragraph (1), setting forth
in detail ways to increase United States environmental exports
to such country. Each such plan shall—
‘‘(A) identify the primary public and private sector
opportunities for United States exporters of environmental
technologies, goods, and services in the priority country;
‘‘(B) analyze the financing and other requirements for
major projects in the priority country which will use
environmental technologies, goods, and services, and ana-
lyze whether such projects are dependent upon financial
assistance from foreign countries or multilateral institu-
tions; and
‘‘(C) list specific actions to be taken by the member
agencies of the Working Group to increase United States
exports to the priority country.’’.
(b) ADDITIONAL MECHANISMS TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL
EXPORTS.—Section 2313 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988
is further amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(f) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES SPECIALISTS IN THE UNITED
STATES AND FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE.—
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‘‘(1) 
ASSIGNMENT
OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
TECHNOLOGIES
SPECIALISTS.—The Secretary shall assign a specialist in environ-
mental technologies to the office of the United States and
Foreign Commercial Service in each of the 5 priority countries
selected under subsection (d)(1), and the Secretary is authorized
to assign such a specialist to the office of the United States
and Foreign Commercial Service in any country that is a
promising market for United States exports of environmental
technologies, goods, and services. Such specialist may be an
employee of the Department, an employee of any relevant
United States Government department or agency assigned on
a temporary or limited term basis to the Commerce Depart-
ment, or a representative of the private sector assigned to
the Department of Commerce.
‘‘(2) DUTIES
OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
TECHNOLOGIES
SPECIAL-
ISTS.—Each specialist assigned under paragraph (1) shall pro-
vide export promotion assistance to United States environ-
mental businesses, including, but not limited to—
‘‘(A) identifying factors in the country to which the
specialist is assigned that affect the United States share
of the domestic market for environmental technologies,
goods, and services, including market barriers, standards-
setting activities, and financing issues;
‘‘(B) providing assessments of assistance by foreign
governments that is provided to producers of environmental
technologies, goods, and services in such countries in order
to enhance exports to the country to which the specialist
is assigned, the effectiveness of such assistance on the
competitiveness of United States products, and whether
comparable United States assistance exists;
‘‘(C) training Foreign Commercial Service Officers in
the country to which the specialist is assigned, other coun-
tries in the region, and United States and Foreign Commer-
cial Service offices in the United States, in environmental
technologies and the international environmental market;
‘‘(D) providing assistance in identifying potential cus-
tomers and market opportunities in the country to which
the specialist is assigned;
‘‘(E) providing assistance in obtaining necessary busi-
ness services in the country to which the specialist is
assigned;
‘‘(F) providing information on environmental standards
and regulations in the country to which the specialist is
assigned;
‘‘(G) providing information on all United States Govern-
ment programs that could assist the promotion, financing,
and sale of United States environmental technologies,
goods, and services in the country to which the specialist
is assigned; and
‘‘(H) promoting the equal treatment of United States
environmental, safety, and related requirements, with
those of other exporting countries, in order to promote
exports of United States-made products.
‘‘(g) ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING IN ONE-STOP SHOPS.—In addi-
tion to the training provided under subsection (f)(2)(C), the Sec-
retary shall establish a mechanism to train—
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‘‘(1) Commercial Service Officers assigned to the one-stop
shops provided for in section 2301(b)(8), and
‘‘(2) Commercial Service Officers assigned to district offices
in districts having large numbers of environmental businesses,
in environmental technologies and in the international environ-
mental marketplace, and ensure that such officers receive appro-
priate training under such mechanism. Such training may be pro-
vided by officers or employees of the Department of Commerce,
and other United States Government departments and agencies,
with appropriate expertise in environmental technologies and the
international environmental workplace, and by appropriate rep-
resentatives of the private sector.
‘‘(h) INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT OF INITIATIVES.—The TPCC may estab-
lish one or more international regional environmental initia-
tives the purpose of which shall be to coordinate the activities
of Federal departments and agencies in order to build environ-
mental partnerships between the United States and the
geographic region outside the United States for which such
initiative is established. Such partnerships shall enhance
environmental protection and promote sustainable development
by using in the region technical expertise and financial
resources of United States departments and agencies that pro-
vide foreign assistance and by expanding United States exports
of environmental technologies, goods, and services to that
region.
‘‘(2) ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out each international
regional environmental initiative, the TPCC shall—
‘‘(A) support, through the provision of foreign assist-
ance, the development of sound environmental policies and
practices in countries in the geographic region for which
the initiative is established, including the development of
environmentally sound regulatory regimes and enforcement
mechanisms;
‘‘(B) identify and disseminate to United States environ-
mental businesses information regarding specific environ-
mental business opportunities in that geographic region;
‘‘(C) coordinate existing Federal efforts to promote
environmental exports to that geographic region, and
ensure that such efforts are fully coordinated with environ-
mental export promotion efforts undertaken by the States
and the private sector;
‘‘(D) increase assistance provided by the Federal
Government to promote exports from the United States
of environmental technologies, goods, and services to that
geographic region, such as trade missions, reverse trade
missions, trade fairs, and programs in the United States
to train foreign nationals in United States environmental
technologies; and
‘‘(E) increase high-level advocacy by United States
Government officials (including the United States ambas-
sadors to the countries in that geographic region) for United
States environmental businesses seeking market opportuni-
ties in that geographic region.
‘‘(i) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT ADVOCACY CAL-
ENDAR AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION PROGRAM.—The Working
Group shall—
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‘‘(1) maintain a calendar, updated at the end of each cal-
endar quarter, of significant opportunities for United States
environmental businesses in foreign markets and trade pro-
motion events, which shall—
‘‘(A) be made available to the public;
‘‘(B) identify the 50 to 100 environmental infrastructure
and procurement projects in foreign markets that have
the greatest potential in the calendar quarter for United
States exports of environmental technologies, goods, and
services; and
‘‘(C) include trade promotion events, such as trade
missions and trade fairs, in the environmental sector; and
‘‘(2) provide, through the National Trade Data Bank and
other information dissemination channels, information on
opportunities for environmental businesses in foreign markets
and information on Federal export promotion programs.
‘‘(j) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY EXPORT ALLIANCES.—Subject
to the availability of appropriations for such purpose, the Secretary
is authorized to use the Market Development Cooperator Program
to support the creation on a regional basis of alliances of private
sector entities, nonprofit organizations, and universities, that sup-
port the export of environmental technologies, goods, and services
and promote the export of products complying with United States
environmental, safety, and related requirements.
‘‘(k) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term
‘environmental business’ means a business that produces environ-
mental technologies, goods, or services.’’.
TITLE 
V—INTERNATIONAL 
PROTEC-
TION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
SEC. 501. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out part I of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 and other relevant foreign assistance laws, the
President, acting through the Administrator of the United States
Agency for International Development, shall establish a program
of training and other technical assistance to assist foreign countries
in—
(1) developing and strengthening laws and regulations to
protect intellectual property; and
(2) developing the infrastructure necessary to implement
and enforce such laws and regulations.
(b) PARTICIPATION
OF OTHER AGENCIES.—The Administrator
of the United States Agency for International Development—
(1) shall utilize the expertise of the Patent and Trademark
Office and other agencies of the United States Government
in designing and implementing the program of assistance pro-
vided for in this section;
(2) shall coordinate assistance under this section with
efforts of other agencies of the United States Government to
increase international protection of intellectual property, includ-
ing implementation of international agreements containing high
levels of protection of intellectual property; and
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(3) shall consult with the heads of such other agencies
in determining which foreign countries will receive assistance
under this section.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.