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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1488
To prohibit imports into the United States of meat products from the Euro-
pean Community until certain unfair trade barriers are removed, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 25, 1993
Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. GRANDY, Mr.
GUNDERSON, and Mr. BEREUTER) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To prohibit imports into the United States of meat products
from the European Community until certain unfair trade
barriers are removed, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS AND POLICY.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following
findings:
(1) The European Community’s Third Country
Meat Directive is a nontariff trade barrier.
(2) The maintenance of this nontariff barrier is
a major impediment to United States meat exports
to the member states of the European Community.
(3) United States producers of meat products
have been injured by being denied the opportunity to
sell their products in the member states of the Euro-
pean Community.
(4) The imposition of this nontariff barrier has
had a harmful effect on United States commercial
interest and has created a serious trade dispute be-
tween the United States and the European Commu-
nity.
(5) Efforts by the United States Government to
negotiate a resolution to this dispute have been un-
successful.
(6) The European Community is expanding its
share of the United States pork market through the
unfair use of export subsidies, and this expansion is
further injuring the United States pork industry.
(7) In order to prevent further economic injury
to the United States meat industry, the United
States Government must take stronger action to re-
move the major impediment to United States exports
created by the Third Country Meat Directive.
(8) In order to demonstrate its determination to
obtain access to the European market for United
States producers, the United States Government
should retaliate against the European Community’s
imposition of the Third Country Meat Directive.
(9) The form of retaliation that is most likely
to succeed in bringing the dispute to a resolution is
to restrict imports of meat products from the Euro-
pean Community to the United States.
(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States
that the European Community’s Third Country Meat Di-
rective is an unfair nontariff trade barrier and that it is
in the public interest to remove this barrier to exports of
United States meat products.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST ENTRY OF EUROPEAN COM-
MUNITY MEAT PRODUCTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 15 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall pro-
hibit the entry into the United States of all European
Community meat products.
(b) DURATION.—The prohibition imposed under sub-
section (a) shall remain in full force and effect until the
European Community removes the impediment to United
States meat imports into the European Community caused
by the Third Country Meat Directive, and until meat
products raised and produced in the United States are
permitted full and fair access to the markets of the Euro-
pean Community.
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