H. R. 6156 
One Hundred Twelfth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twelve 
An Act 
To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations 
treatment) to products of the Russian Federation and Moldova and to require 
reports on the compliance of the Russian Federation with its obligations as 
a member of the World Trade Organization, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Russia and 
Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law 
Accountability Act of 2012’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—PERMANENT NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS FOR THE RUSSIAN 
FEDERATION 
Sec. 101. Findings. 
Sec. 102. Termination of application of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 to products 
of the Russian Federation. 
TITLE II—TRADE ENFORCEMENT MEASURES RELATING TO THE RUSSIAN 
FEDERATION 
Sec. 201. Reports on implementation by the Russian Federation of obligations as a 
member of the World Trade Organization and enforcement actions by 
the United States Trade Representative. 
Sec. 202. Promotion of the rule of law in the Russian Federation to support United 
States trade and investment. 
Sec. 203. Reports on laws, policies, and practices of the Russian Federation that 
discriminate against United States digital trade. 
Sec. 204. Efforts to reduce barriers to trade imposed by the Russian Federation. 
TITLE III—PERMANENT NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS FOR MOLDOVA 
Sec. 301. Findings. 
Sec. 302. Termination of application of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 to products 
of Moldova. 
TITLE IV—SERGEI MAGNITSKY RULE OF LAW ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 
2012 
Sec. 401. Short title. 
Sec. 402. Findings; sense of Congress. 
Sec. 403. Definitions. 
Sec. 404. Identification of persons responsible for the detention, abuse, and death 
of Sergei Magnitsky and other gross violations of human rights. 
Sec. 405. Inadmissibility of certain aliens. 
Sec. 406. Financial measures. 
Sec. 407. Report to Congress.
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TITLE I—PERMANENT NORMAL TRADE 
RELATIONS FOR THE RUSSIAN FED-
ERATION 
SEC. 101. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Russian Federation allows its citizens the right 
and opportunity to emigrate, free of any heavy tax on emigra-
tion or on the visas or other documents required for emigration 
and free of any tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any 
citizens as a consequence of the desire of those citizens to 
emigrate to the country of their choice. 
(2) The Russian Federation has been found to be in full 
compliance with the freedom of emigration requirements under 
title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.) 
since 1994. 
(3) The Russian Federation has received normal trade rela-
tions treatment since concluding a bilateral trade agreement 
with the United States that entered into force in 1992. 
(4) On December 16, 2011, the Ministerial Conference of 
the World Trade Organization invited the Russian Federation 
to accede to the World Trade Organization. 
SEC. 102. TERMINATION OF APPLICATION OF TITLE IV OF THE TRADE 
ACT OF 1974 TO PRODUCTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. 
(a) PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATIONS AND EXTENSION OF NON-
DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT.—Notwithstanding any provision of 
title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.), the 
President may— 
(1) determine that such title should no longer apply to 
the Russian Federation; and 
(2) after making a determination under paragraph (1) with 
respect to the Russian Federation, proclaim the extension of 
nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) 
to the products of the Russian Federation. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT.—The 
extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of the 
Russian Federation pursuant to subsection (a) shall be effective 
not sooner than the effective date of the accession of the Russian 
Federation to the World Trade Organization. 
(c) TERMINATION OF APPLICABILITY OF TITLE IV.—On and after 
the effective date under subsection (b) of the extension of non-
discriminatory treatment to the products of the Russian Federation, 
title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.) shall 
cease to apply to the Russian Federation.