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viding incentives to registered owners of high polluting 
automobiles and replace such automobiles with new fuel 
efficient and less polluting automobiles, otherwise re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Cash for Clunkers Program’’; 
Whereas the U.S. CARS program was launched by the U.S. 
Department of Transportation on July 27, 2009, with an 
initial appropriation of $1 billion and extended on August 
6, 2009, with an additional sum of $2 billion; 
Whereas when it ended on August 25, 2009, a total of 
677,842 new vehicles were incentivized and purchased 
through the program, all of which improved the U.S. 
economy and provided jobs in the automobile industry; 
Whereas, according to the U.S. Department of Transpor-
tation data, the share of transactions by manufacturers 
of the total number of new vehicles incentivized included: 
120,507 Toyotas, 90,135 Fords, 87,585 Hondas, 86,354 
Chevrolets, 58,700 Nissans, 48,780 Hyundais, 24,119 
Dodges, 16,144 Mazdas, 12,418 Volkswagens, 9,033 
Chryslers, and 3,663 Lexuses, for a total of over 319,000 
Japanese brand automobiles, which clearly demonstrates 
that the U.S. ‘‘Cash for Clunkers’’ program was open to 
all automobile manufacturers doing business in the U.S.; 
Whereas the Japanese Government in April 2009, as part of 
its ‘‘economic crisis measures’’, adopted as its version of 
the U.S. CARS program an ‘‘Eco-friendly Vehicle’’ pro-
gram, which the Japanese Auto Dealer Association on 
April 10, 2009, described as a subsidy to achieve effective 
environmental and economic measures by promoting pur-
chase of new vehicles with high levels of environmental 
performance, leading to stimulation of the Japanese auto 
industry; 
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Whereas the Japanese Government is planning to extend the 
current Japanese automobile scrappage and subsidy pro-
gram as early as January 2010; 
Whereas, unlike the U.S. CARS program of 2009, the cur-
rent Japanese Eco-friendly Vehicle Purchase Program is 
not open and available to all imports of U.S. automobile 
manufacturers because the Japanese program is only 
available to automobile models that use a full Govern-
ment procedure called ‘‘Type Approval’’ of each model 
that generates an official fuel economy rating; 
Whereas as U.S. automobile importers use a more cost effi-
cient Preferred Handling Procedure (PHP), which is ac-
cepted by the Japanese Government for imported vehicles 
sold in Japan; 
Whereas even though many U.S. imported automobiles have 
comparable or better fuel efficiency than Japanese vehi-
cles, they do not qualify for the Eco-friendly Vehicle Pur-
chase Program; 
Whereas the House of Representatives strongly believes that 
the current Japanese Government’s Eco-friendly Vehicle 
program is unfair and discriminatory in its implementa-
tion and its failure to apply to low volume automobile im-
ports of U.S. automobile manufacturers by excluding fuel 
efficient U.S.-made automobiles that meet the same fuel 
economy requirements of the United States that auto-
mobiles of Japanese manufacturers met in 2009 under 
the U.S. Cash for Clunkers program in qualifying for 
U.S. incentives for their automobiles; and 
Whereas such exclusion amounts to the Japanese Govern-
ment engaging in unfair and discriminatory practices 
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contrary to international treaty requirements of the 
World Trade Organization: Now therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the President shall direct the United States 
Trade Representative with support, assistance, and 
cooperation of the Secretary of State, Secretary of 
Transportation, and as appropriate, other Federal 
agencies to immediately initiate discussions with the 
Government of Japan to identify and remedy viola-
tions of Japan’s trade obligations under applicable 
World Trade Organization requirements for its dis-
criminatory policies and practices in regards to not 
applying incentives for United States automotive im-
ports under Japan’s Eco-friendly Vehicle Purchase 
Program, and if no adequate relief is promptly 
forthcoming to file appropriate measures and com-
plaints to initiate dispute resolution actions under 
authority of the World Trade Organization; 
(2) any such action should include a detailed 
analysis of the financial costs and other impacts on 
the economy of the United States which were in-
curred by the implementation of the U.S. CARS in-
centives program in regards to Japanese manufac-
tured automobiles that received subsidies; and 
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(3) the Secretary of State with the cooperation 
and assistance of the Secretary of Transportation, 
the United States Trade Representative, and other 
relevant Federal officials should take immediately 
diplomatic and other measures to ensure that any 
extension by the Japanese Government of the Eco- 
friendly Vehicle Program is fair and not discrimina-
tory in regard to U.S. manufactured automobile im-
ports to Japan. 
SEC. 2. The Clerk of the House of Representatives 
shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the President. 
Æ 
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