I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3564
To remove United States fair trade laws from the World Trade Organization 
dispute settlement system process. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 20, 2003
Mr. STRICKLAND introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To remove United States fair trade laws from the World 
Trade Organization dispute settlement system process.
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 ‘‘Economic Sovereignty 
and Job Security Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) United States fair trade laws are modeled 
after provisions in the Uruguay Round Agreements 
and are consistent with them.
(2) World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute 
settlement bodies have consistently opposed import 
relief properly imposed under these United States 
trade laws. 
(3) WTO dispute settlement bodies have regu-
larly ignored understandings and agreements—such 
as those on antidumping, countervailing duty, safe-
guards, and market access—that have been funda-
mental to United States participation in the WTO, 
have invented new obligations, have disregarded the 
appropriate standard of review, have declined to af-
ford the proper deference to decisions of United 
States authorities, and have undermined the purpose 
of the WTO dispute settlement agreement. 
(4) A 2003 United States General Accounting 
Office report demonstrates that trade remedies im-
posed by the United States are two or three times 
more likely to be challenged—and found in violation 
of WTO rules—than those imposed by other major 
trade remedy users. 
(5) Enforcement of these very same fair trade 
laws are vital to United States industries, workers, 
and communities and are essential to maintaining a 
domestic manufacturing sector.
(6) WTO dispute settlement panelists often 
have been willing, as evidenced by their decisions, to 
act as activists against the fair trade laws. 
(7) WTO decisions that undermine the United 
States fair trade laws operate as a threat to United 
States sovereignty principles. 
(8) Abuses of the WTO dispute settlement sys-
tem with respect to fair trade laws call into question 
the WTO’s overall credibility and undermine public 
support for such international trading systems. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS 
TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—No funds available to the Depart-
ment of State or any other Federal department or agency 
may be used to make a United States contribution to the 
World Trade Organization (WTO). 
(b) EXCEPTION.—The prohibition in subsection (a) 
shall not apply if the President determines and certifies 
to Congress that the Understanding on Rules and Proce-
dures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (as referred 
to in section 101(d)(16) of the Uruguay Round Agree-
ments Act) does not apply with respect to the United 
States involving a dispute under the Agreement on Imple-
mentation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tar-
iffs and Trade 1994 (as referred to in section 101(d)(7)
of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act), the Agreement 
on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (as referred to 
in section 101(d)(12) of the Uruguay Round Agreements 
Act), and the Agreement on Safeguards (as referred to 
in section 101(d)(13) of the Uruguay Round Agreements 
Act).
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