IV
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 193
To express the sense of Congress regarding negotiation objectives for the
Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT).
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 22, 1993
Mr. REGULA (for himself, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. MINETA, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr.
YATES, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. APPLEGATE, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. HUGHES,
Mr. EDWARDS of California, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. FILNER, Mr. CONYERS,
Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. LANCASTER, Mrs. BENTLEY, Mr. MURTHA, Mrs.
LOWEY, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. GENE GREEN of
Texas, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. RIDGE, Mr. WELDON, Mr. CARR of Michigan,
Mr. GEKAS, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. CLAY, Ms. LONG, Mr. MCDADE, Mr.
PALLONE, Mr. STOKES, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. VENTO, Mr.
MCHALE, Mr. PAYNE of Virginia, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. HUNTER, Mr.
RUSH, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. SLATTERY, Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. MINK, Mr.
BROWN of California, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. COYNE, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. OBEY,
Mr. RAHALL, Mr. SANGMEISTER, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. SYNAR, Mr. BOEH-
LERT, Mr. QUINN, Mr. ROEMER, Ms. FURSE, Ms. MARGOLIES-
MEZVINSKY, Mr. MOLLOHAN, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mrs. KEN-
NELLY, Mr. PICKLE, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. HOUGHTON, and Miss COLLINS
of Michigan) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Ways and Means
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To express the sense of Congress regarding negotiation objec-
tives for the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement
on Trade and Tariffs (GATT).
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring),
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SECTION 1. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS ON
ANTIDUMPING 
AND 
TRADE 
DISTORTING
SUBSIDIES.
(a) It is the sense of Congress that the President
shall not enter into any international trade agreement on
antidumping requiring changes in United States anti-
dumping laws which would reduce the effectiveness of such
laws as a remedy against injurious dumped imports. In
this regard, the Congress strongly urges the President to
review carefully the provisions on antidumping contained
in the Draft Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uru-
guay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations proposed
by the Director-General of the General Agreement on Tar-
iffs and Trade on December 21, 1991, and to seek those
changes in such provisions that are necessary to maintain
and to strengthen the effectiveness of United States anti-
dumping laws, including, but not limited to, changes pro-
posed by the United States in December 1992, any
changes needed to clarify the continuing right to cumulate
and cross-cumulate imports under investigation, and the
prohibition of procedures to sunset dumping and counter-
vailing duty orders.
(b) It is the sense of Congress that the United States
Government shall not, as a matter of official policy, con-
done or legitimize the use by foreign governments of trade
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distorting subsidies, including development subsidies, that
cause material injury to industries in the United States.
SEC. 2. PRINCIPAL TRADE NEGOTIATION OBJECTIVES OF
THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING DISPUTE
SETTLEMENT MECHANISMS WITH RESPECT
TO UNITED STATES COUNTERVAILING DUTY
AND ANTIDUMPING ACTIONS.
(a) It is the sense of Congress that the United States
not enter into any international trade agreement on dis-
pute settlement contained in the Draft Final Act Embody-
ing the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral
Trade Negotiations proposed by the Director-General of
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on December
21, 1991, unless with respect to review of countervailing
duty and antidumping duty actions taken by a signatory
to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
under its national laws, the dispute settlement mecha-
nisms and procedures shall not allow—
(1) the review of issues that were not properly
presented to the investigating authorities for resolu-
tion during the administrative proceeding conducted
under such laws;
(2) the review of issues before the conclusion of
the administrative proceeding conducted under such
laws;
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(3) the conducting of an independent de novo
investigation of the circumstances leading to such
actions; and
(4) where a signatory to the GATT provides for
the administrative or judicial review, by an inde-
pendent body, of factual issues with respect to coun-
tervailing duty and antidumping actions, the exten-
sion of the review beyond whether the laws and reg-
ulations of that signatory, and the interpretation of
such laws and regulations by that signatory, are con-
sistent with the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade.
In reaching the principal negotiating objectives described
in this Act, and in section 1101 of the Omnibus Trade
and Competitiveness Act of 1988, all necessary actions
shall be taken to promote strong and effective limitations
on the scope of and standards applicable to any review
of countervailing duty or antidumping duty actions under
the dispute settlement mechanisms and procedures de-
scribed in this section.
SEC. 3. GLOBAL STRUCTURAL EXCESS CAPACITY.
It is the sense of Congress that the principal negotiat-
ing objective of the United States regarding situations of
global structural excess capacity is to negotiate multilat-
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eral rules to permit rapid realignment of capacity to
demand.
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