IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 251 
Urging the President to expedite the submission of the United States- 
Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement to Congress. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 4, 2011 
Mr. SCHOCK (for himself, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. CUELLAR, and Mr. MEEKS) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Ways and Means 
RESOLUTION 
Urging the President to expedite the submission of the 
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement to 
Congress. 
Whereas, on November 22, 2006, the United States and Co-
lombia signed a trade agreement known as the United 
States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement; 
Whereas following the signing of the initial text and after ex-
tensive consultations with Congress that led to a bipar-
tisan agreement, the United States and Colombia agreed 
to the inclusion of additional provisions; 
Whereas the Colombian Legislature ratified the modified 
Trade Agreement on October 30, 2007, with commit-
ments on labor rights, environment, and additional provi-
sions; 
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Whereas, on April 6, 2011, the United States and Colombia 
announced an agreement on outstanding labor issues in 
Colombia; 
Whereas the agreed ‘‘Action Plan Related to Labor Rights’’, 
released on April 7, 2011, includes very significant com-
mitments by Colombia regarding its Labor Ministry, 
Criminal Code reform, cooperatives, temporary service 
agencies, collective pacts, essential services, the Inter-
national Labor Organization Office in Colombia, protec-
tion programs, criminal justice reform, and a follow-up 
mechanism that sets forth a timetable for implementa-
tion; 
Whereas the United States has not yet ratified the Trade 
Agreement and, in the 1,620 days since it was signed, 
U.S. exporters have paid more than $3,440,000,000 in 
tariffs that they would not have had to pay had the 
Trade Agreement been in force; 
Whereas United States exports to Colombia reached 
$12,000,000,000 in 2010; 
Whereas Colombia is the second-largest market in South 
America for United States exports, after only Brazil; 
Whereas Colombia is the second-largest market in the Span-
ish-speaking world for United States exports, after only 
Mexico; 
Whereas two-way trade between the United States and Co-
lombia was valued at $28,000,000,000 in 2010; 
Whereas Colombia is the United States third-largest trading 
partner in Latin America, after Mexico and Brazil; 
Whereas over the last 5 years, Colombia has been the largest 
market for United States agriculture exports in South 
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America and the third-largest market in the Western 
Hemisphere; 
Whereas Colombia has agriculture exports with the United 
States totaling $4,300,000,000 in only the last five years; 
Whereas over the 5-year period from 2004 to 2008, United 
States agriculture exports to Colombia grew at an aver-
age annual rate of 38 percent; 
Whereas the Economist Intelligence Unit, an independent 
source of global market analysis, named Colombia in 
2010 as the first of 6 ‘‘CIVETS’’ emerging economies 
with the best growth prospects for this decade; 
Whereas expanding and creating new markets through trade 
agreements, such as the Colombia Trade Agreement, is 
of vital importance to achieving the President’s export 
goals as stated through the National Export Initiative; 
Whereas analysis by the United States International Trade 
Commission (ITC) estimates that United States exports 
to Colombia will increase by $1,100,000,000 with the 
Trade Agreement; 
Whereas according to the ITC’s analysis, the Trade Agree-
ment will add $2,500,000,000 per year to United States 
Gross Domestic Product (GDP); 
Whereas more than 99 percent of Colombian exports already 
enter the United States duty-free under the Andean 
Trade Preference Act (ATPA), although the benefits of 
ATPA have been interrupted since February 13, 2011; 
Whereas the average tariff paid by Colombian exports to the 
United States in 2009 and 2010 was less than one per-
cent; 
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Whereas the Trade Agreement will reduce the average tariff 
faced by United States exporters by more than 68 per-
cent, from 11.2 percent in 2009 to 3.6 percent imme-
diately upon implementation of the Agreement; 
Whereas over 80 percent of United States exports of con-
sumer and industrial products to Colombia will become 
duty-free immediately upon implementation of the Trade 
Agreement, with remaining tariffs phased out over 10 
years; 
Whereas, in contrast to the already advantageous tariffs 
faced by Colombian exports into the United States, U.S. 
agriculture exports to Colombia currently face an average 
tariff of 20 percent; 
Whereas, immediately upon implementation of the Trade 
Agreement, Colombia will give duty-free treatment to 
U.S. exporters for 78 percent of Colombia’s agriculture 
tariff lines; 
Whereas within five years of implementation of the Trade 
Agreement, nearly 93 percent of all of Colombia’s agri-
culture tariff lines will be duty-free for U.S. exporters; 
Whereas the Trade Agreement would immediately eliminate 
Colombia’s price-band system, which imposes a variable 
charge on top of the regular import duties on key agri-
culture exports such as poultry, pork, dairy, barley, 
wheat, sorghum, corn, sugar, and rice; 
Whereas, under the Trade Agreement, Colombia will lift un-
scientific BSE-related restrictions on U.S. agricultural 
exports, and Colombia will recognize the equivalence of 
the U.S. food safety system for meat, poultry, and proc-
essed foods; 
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Whereas the American Farm Bureau estimates that the in-
crease in United States agriculture exports to Colombia 
as a result of the Trade Agreement could exceed 
$690,000,000, more than doubling current United States 
agriculture exports; 
Whereas the ITC estimates that the Trade Agreement will in-
crease U.S. wheat exports to Colombia by 11 percent; 
other grains by 20 percent; vegetables, fruits, and nuts 
by 32 percent; beef by 46 percent; dairy by 110 percent; 
and processed rice by 646 percent; 
Whereas in 2009, 41 U.S. States exported agriculture prod-
ucts to Colombia; 
Whereas the Trade Agreement will provide U.S. service firms 
with market access, national treatment, and regulatory 
transparency that exceed that afforded by the WTO Gen-
eral Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), including 
by reducing Colombia’s barriers in the banking sector by 
more than half, according to ITC estimates; 
Whereas the Trade Agreement will result in an increase in 
U.S. exports of fabric, yarn, and other textiles to Colom-
bia for use in its apparel industry, according to ITC esti-
mates, and the agreement does not allow the use of third- 
country fabrics through a trade preference level, so Chi-
nese inputs will not obtain increased access to the U.S. 
market; 
Whereas the United States is losing market share in key Co-
lombian import markets because other major countries 
whose exporters compete with U.S. exporters have been 
negotiating and implementing trade agreements with Co-
lombia, while the United States delays ratification of its 
own pending Trade Agreement; 
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Whereas, on January 1, 2009, agricultural provisions of Co-
lombia’s trade agreement with Argentina, Brazil, and 
other MERCOSUR countries went into force, giving ex-
porters from those countries a substantial tariff advan-
tage over U.S. exporters; 
Whereas, on November 21 2008, Colombia and Canada 
signed a Trade Agreement, which has been ratified by 
both countries and approved by Colombia’s Constitutional 
Court, and is expected to go into effect by July 1, 2011, 
giving Canadian exporters a substantial tariff advantage 
over U.S. exporters; 
Whereas, on March 1, 2010, Colombia and the European 
Union completed negotiation of a Free Trade Agreement, 
which is expected to be ratified this year; 
Whereas, on December 7, 2009, Colombia and South Korea 
launched Free Trade Agreement negotiations, which are 
ongoing; 
Whereas, on March 15, 2010, Colombia and Panama 
launched Free Trade Agreement negotiations, which are 
ongoing; 
Whereas, upon entry into force of the agricultural provisions 
of the Colombia-MERCOSUR trade agreement, United 
States exports to Colombia of key agricultural products 
declined 48 percent in 2009 and another 45 percent in 
2010; 
Whereas the agricultural provisions of the Colombia- 
MERCOSUR trade agreement reduced the U.S. share of 
Colombia’s import market for key agricultural products 
from 71 percent to 27 percent in two years; 
Whereas the United States lost 44 percentage points of mar-
ket share (from 71 percent to 27 percent) in Colombia; 
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Whereas Argentina gained nearly exactly the amount of mar-
ket share, 37 percentage points, in Colombia that was 
lost by the United States, over the same time period; 
Whereas United States farmers saw their exports of corn, 
wheat, and soybeans to Colombia plummet from 
$1,100,000,000 in 2008 to only $343,000,000 in 2010, 
a decline of 68 percent; 
Whereas while U.S. exports to Colombia have plummeted as 
a result of failure to ratify the Trade Agreement, U.S. 
exports to Peru have increased dramatically as a result 
of the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement 
(PTPA) implementation in 2009; 
Whereas between 2008 and 2010, United States exports of 
corn, wheat, and soybeans to Peru increased by a com-
bined 99 percent because of the implementation of that 
agreement; 
Whereas the United States Department of Agriculture re-
cently released a report showing that the United States- 
Peru Trade Promotion Agreement has helped make Peru 
‘‘the fastest growing market in South America for the 
United States’’; 
Whereas in fiscal year 2010, United States agricultural ex-
ports to Peru reached $737,000,000, up 258 percent 
from fiscal year 2006; 
Whereas Colombia projects that it will increase its infrastruc-
ture spending to more than $125,000,000,000 over the 
next decade, focused especially on energy, oil and gas, 
roads, ports, and airports; 
Whereas the Trade Agreement will help American exporters 
and service firms to compete for infrastructure-related 
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exports and service contracts, which produce good jobs 
for American workers; 
Whereas the Chief Executive Officer of Caterpillar, Doug 
Oberhelman, testified in a Ways and Means Trade Sub-
committee hearing on March 30, 2011, that the manufac-
turer of a construction vehicle can expect to generate 
sales equivalent to three times the sale value of the vehi-
cle through parts and related purchases during the life-
span of the vehicle; 
Whereas five major Colombian cities are in the process of up-
grading their mass transit systems; 
Whereas Colombia is a promising market for auto exports by 
United States auto manufacturers, as roads are upgraded 
and as road systems are expanded; 
Whereas the Colombian Government is replacing 285,000 of 
its vehicles because they have an average of 23 years of 
service, representing a good opportunity for United 
States auto manufacturers; 
Whereas international flights to and from Colombia have in-
creased 120 percent since 2000, providing opportunities 
for United States airplane and related manufacturers and 
service providers; 
Whereas Colombia is soliciting private interest in laying a 
trans-Pacific submarine cable to diversify telecommuni-
cations lines with China and other Asian countries, as 
Asian trade expands; 
Whereas broadband access in Colombia increased 46 percent 
in 2009, but access remains low by international stand-
ards, presenting opportunities for U.S. exporters and 
service providers; 
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Whereas Colombia currently seeks investment in numerous 
large-scale 
energy 
projects, 
among 
them 
a 
$1,500,000,000 sale of the government’s majority stake 
in Colombia’s third-largest power generator and sale of 2 
public-sector generation companies, representing one- 
third of installed thermal capacity and 4 percent of hy-
dropower capacity, for a total of 1,500 megawatts; devel-
opment of a $2,400,000,000 facility that will have in-
stalled capacity of 2,400 megawatts, representing 20 per-
cent of Colombia’s currently installed capacity; and devel-
opment of an $810,000,000 facility that will have an in-
stalled capacity of 400 megawatts; 
Whereas Colombia already has the fifth-largest oil reserves in 
Latin America and is conducting extensive exploration, 
thanks to significantly increased recent foreign invest-
ment, which exceeded $3,000,000,000 in 2010; 
Whereas Colombia has natural gas reserves spread over 18 
basins and a network of over 2,000 miles of pipeline, pro-
viding United States service firms opportunities in explo-
ration, drilling, and pipeline maintenance; 
Whereas China has invested over $1,500,000,000 in Colom-
bia’s oil sector since 2006 because China’s oil consump-
tion is projected to double by 2030; 
Whereas China also announced this year plans to develop a 
railroad to compete with the Panama Canal in moving 
coal and other energy products between the Atlantic and 
Pacific coasts and from the Colombian interior; 
Whereas in his State of the Union Address on January 25, 
2011, President Obama said, ‘‘The first step in winning 
the future is encouraging American innovation . . . We’ll 
invest in biomedical research, information technology, 
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and especially clean energy technology . . . Now, clean 
energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean en-
ergy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for 
what they’re selling . . .’’; 
Whereas Colombia is a promising market for clean energy 
technology and other green sector exports from the 
United States, as well as green sector service providers; 
Whereas Colombia ranked fourth in Latin America in total 
greenfield investment in clean technologies from 2003 
through 2008, exceeding $1,200,000,000 in investment; 
Whereas Colombia maintains blending requirements that en-
sure significant domestic Colombian demand for biofuel 
but produces only two-thirds of its needed ethanol and 
biodiesel supply, which provides both export and invest-
ment opportunities for United States firms in the sector; 
Whereas hydropower generates two-thirds of Colombia’s en-
ergy, providing major opportunities for United States ex-
ports and service providers in the hydropower sector; 
Whereas 6 Colombian states have solar energy potential rang-
ing from 1,200 to over 2,000 kwh per square meter per 
year; 
Whereas Colombia’s wind sector is growing but is dominated 
by Spanish exporters, which benefit from a bilateral in-
vestment treaty between Colombia and Spain; 
Whereas the International Labor Organization removed Co-
lombia from its labor watch list in 2010, called Colom-
bia’s expanded collective bargaining rules ‘‘satisfactory,’’ 
‘‘recognized all the measures . . . adopt[ed] recently to 
combat . . . violence against the trade union movement,’’ 
and noted that such violence fell between 2008 and 2009; 
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Whereas the United Nations cited Colombia’s commitment to 
achieving human rights goals that the United Nations 
had recommended and took note of contributions of the 
Constitutional Court, Prosecutor General, and the Om-
budsman; 
Whereas in response to labor violence improvements, the 
President of the United Workers Confederation in Colom-
bia has stated, ‘‘Never in the history of Colombia have 
we achieved something so important’’; 
Whereas the overall homicide rate in Colombia is now down 
to 32 for every 100,000 people, and the U.S. Department 
of State reports that, between 2002 and 2008, homicides 
in Colombia fell by 44 percent, kidnappings by 88 per-
cent, terrorist attacks by 79 percent, and attacks on the 
country’s infrastructure by 60 percent; 
Whereas homicides against union members in Colombia con-
tinue to decline dramatically, from 196 cases in 2002 to 
33 in 2010—a decline of 83 percent—and the homicide 
rate for union members in Colombia is now lower than 
for the general population; 
Whereas Colombian constitutional reform has shortened by 
75 percent since 2004 the time it takes to prosecute a 
homicide case; 
Whereas Colombia has established a special program that 
provides security for over 10,000 people, with about 25 
percent of the program’s $13,000,000 budget in 2010 
having been allocated to protecting labor union leaders; 
Whereas Colombia has significantly increased funding for its 
Prosecutor General’s office, which has a 2011 budget of 
over $836,000,000, and added 2,166 professional posi-
tions in 2008; 
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Whereas Colombia is the United States closest ally in South 
America; 
Whereas 
the 
United 
States 
investment 
of 
over 
$8,000,000,000 in aid through Plan Colombia and the 
follow-on efforts of the U.S. Southern Command 
(SOUTHCOM), the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, and other agencies have given Co-
lombia hope in the depths of civil strife, and in response 
to which Colombia has more than matched United States 
assistance to Colombia, with United States security co-
operation funds amounting to less than 5 percent of the 
Colombian defense budget in 2010; 
Whereas the Central Intelligence Agency’s Crime and Nar-
cotics Center reported that coca cultivation fell 29 per-
cent and cocaine production 39 percent in 2008 in Co-
lombia; 
Whereas Colombia’s National Narcotics Directorate raided 
and destroyed 36 percent more clandestine drug labora-
tories 
in 
2008 
than 
in 
2007 
and 
interdicted 
$117,000,000,000 in cocaine from 2002 to May 2009; 
Whereas the Drug Enforcement Agency in 2010 reported 
that the United States price of cocaine rose over 75 per-
cent, while its purity fell over 31 percent—demonstrating 
that efforts in Colombia are making an impact in the 
United States; 
Whereas Colombia has been training militaries and police in 
counternarcotics and counterinsurgency measures in Af-
ghanistan, Mexico, Haiti, Central America, the Carib-
bean, Paraguay, and Africa; 
Whereas Colombia is Latin America’s third-largest provider 
of energy products to the United States, behind only 
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Mexico and Venezuela, and exported over 40 percent of 
its petroleum production to the United States in 2009; 
Whereas according to a March 2010 report by the Depart-
ment of Energy’s Energy Information Administration, 
Colombia is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of coal, 
and the United States depended on Colombia for 80 per-
cent of its coal imports through the first nine months of 
2009, though Colombia began exporting substantial 
amounts of coal in China in 2009; 
Whereas China has quadrupled its share of the Colombian 
market in the last ten years to become Colombia’s sec-
ond-largest trading partner; 
Whereas forty-three former Democratic Members of Con-
gress, Cabinet Officials, Ambassadors, and other senior 
officials signed a letter in 2007, stating, ‘‘Latin America 
is up for grabs. As Democrats, we are deeply concerned 
. . . [P]ostponing [the Trade Agreement] until condi-
tions are perfect would send an unambiguous signal to 
our friends and opponents alike that the United States 
is an unreliable partner without a vision for cooperation 
in our hemisphere. Colombia would certainly re-evaluate 
its relationship with the United States . . .’’; 
Whereas, on April 15, 2008, former Commerce Secretary 
(and current Chief of Staff to the President) Bill Daley 
and thirty-four other Democratic Members of Congress, 
Cabinet Officials, Ambassadors, and other senior officials 
signed a letter stating the following: ‘‘We, the under-
signed, who have served in senior positions in the U.S. 
government, strongly urge Congress to take up and ap-
prove the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement this 
year. We believe this Agreement is in both our vital na-
tional security and economic interests. We feel that the 
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treaty should be considered as soon as possible and that 
any obstacles be quickly and amicably resolved.’’; 
Whereas Admiral James Stavridis, currently Supreme Allied 
Commander-Europe, speaking in 2008 as then-com-
mander of U.S. Southern Command said, ‘‘As your na-
tional security advisor in that region, I will tell you that 
it is very important that the free trade agreement be 
passed from a national security perspective. And, I hear 
that not just from senior people in Colombia, but from 
my interlocutors in the region. They’re watching very 
closely to see what happens to a nation that stands with 
the United States for a decade or more’’; 
Whereas Generals James Hill, Peter Pace, Charles Wilhelm, 
Barry McCaffrey, and George Joulwan, in 2008 as 
former commanders of the U.S. Southern Command 
(1990 to 2004) said, ‘‘This vital agreement will advance 
U.S. interests in Colombia, a strategically located country 
that is arguably our closest ally in Latin America . . . 
[and] advance U.S. security and economic interests by 
forging a deeper partnership’’; 
Whereas in March 2009, in a response to a question from 
Senator Grassley, then Mayor Kirk responded during his 
confirmation hearings, ‘‘. . . we do agree with you that 
Colombia provides a great opportunity, and we will work 
with you to see if we cannot get that advanced sooner 
rather than later’’; 
Whereas in April 2009, Ambassador Kirk said, ‘‘We’re look-
ing for new solutions to the issues that have dragged on 
in existing Free Trade Agreements. . . . At the Summit 
of the Americas, President Obama instructed me to lead 
a review of the Colombia agreement to deal with out-
standing issues there’’; 
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Whereas during the State of the Union on January 27, 2010, 
President Obama stated that ‘‘the more products we 
make and sell to other countries, the more jobs we sup-
port right here in America’’; 
Whereas, on January 24, 2011, Ambassador Thomas ‘‘Mack’’ 
McLarty, who served as Chief of Staff to President Clin-
ton, and Nelson Cunningham, a senior official in Presi-
dent Clinton’s Administration, said, ‘‘[T]he president 
should commit to advancing the pending trade agree-
ments with Colombia and Panama right now, instead of 
leaving them until later as some in his administration 
would prefer. Why bother taking a half-measure on 
trade?’’; 
Whereas, on January 28, 2011, Secretary of State Clinton 
said about the Trade Agreement, ‘‘We want to pass the 
Agreement. In order to pass the Agreement, we have to 
be able to make the case to the Congress, and that is 
what I am intent upon doing’’; 
Whereas after meeting with the Colombian Vice President on 
January 28, 2011, Vice President Biden issued a press 
release, which stated, ‘‘Vice President Biden expressed 
the Administration’s commitment to work closely with the 
Government of Colombia and other key stakeholders on 
the successful conclusion of the U.S.-Colombia Free 
Trade Agreement. Vice President Biden . . . underscored 
the Administration’s support for key reforms being pur-
sued by President Santos and his Administration’’; 
Whereas, on February 9, 2011, Ambassador Kirk testified at 
a House Ways and Means Committee hearing that ‘‘the 
President has directed me to immediately intensify en-
gagement with Colombia and Panama with the objective 
of resolving the outstanding issues as soon as possible 
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