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lenging’’ and ‘‘uncertain’’ climate for business and for-
eign direct investment in Ecuador; 
Whereas Ecuador has withdrawn from the World Bank’s 
Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes be-
tween States and Nationals of Other States and has stat-
ed its intention to terminate the United States–Ecuador 
Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT); 
Whereas Ecuador has not complied with the interim award 
issued by an international arbitration tribunal convened 
under Article 6 of the United States–Ecuador BIT, 
which enjoins Ecuador ‘‘whether by its judicial, legislative 
or executive branches) to take all measures necessary to 
suspend or cause to be suspended the enforcement and 
recognition 
within 
or 
without 
Ecuador’’ 
of 
the 
$18,200,000,000 judgment by Ecuadoran courts against 
the Chevron Corporation; 
Whereas according to the United States Department of 
State’s 2011 Investment Climate Statement on Ecuador, 
‘‘systemic weakness in the judicial system and its suscep-
tibility to political or economic pressures constitutes im-
portant problems faced by U.S. companies investing in or 
trading with Ecuador’’, ‘‘corruption is a serious problem 
in Ecuador’’, and ‘‘Transparency International consist-
ently ranks Ecuador near the bottom among countries it 
surveys in the region’’; 
Whereas although the Ecuadoran authorities report seizing 
21.5 metric tons of finished cocaine in 2011, according 
to the United States Department of State’s 2012 Inter-
national Narcotics Control Strategy Report, ‘‘Ecuador is 
a major transit country for illegal narcotics’’; 
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Whereas, according to October 19, 2011, testimony of the 
Department of State before the Senate Caucus on Inter-
national Narcotics Control, ‘‘the closure of the Forward 
Operating Location in Manta in 2009, the expulsion of 
two Embassy officials in 2009, and the precipitous and 
unwarranted expulsion of Ambassador Hodges in April’’, 
are ‘‘Ecuadorian actions [that] were not supportive of a 
positive and cooperative relationship’’ between the United 
States and Ecuador; 
Whereas Ecuador’s relationship with Iran has become closer 
in recent years, most recently with the visit of Iranian 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Ecuador in January 
2012; 
Whereas sections 203(c) and (d) and 204(b)(6)(B) of the An-
dean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) (19 U.S.C. 3202(c) 
and (d) and 3203)(b)(6)(B)), as amended by the Andean 
Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), 
list factors that serve as limitations, as well as other fac-
tors to be taken into account, in deciding whether to des-
ignate a country as a beneficiary under the ATPA; and 
Whereas section 203(e) of the ATPA, as amended by the 
ATPDEA, makes clear the intention of Congress that 
these limitations and factors continue to be taken into ac-
count in determining whether a country receives benefits 
under the ATPA, given that the President may withdraw 
or suspend designation as a beneficiary country if the 
President determines that ‘‘as a result of changed cir-
cumstances,’’ a country ‘‘should be barred from designa-
tion as a beneficiary’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) condemns the growing repression of democ-
racy and human rights in Ecuador, including the 
suppression of the freedom of expression and in-
creased government control over the judiciary; 
(2) calls on the Secretary of State to note in 
the 2012 and future Country Reports on Human 
Rights Practices for Ecuador the limited ability to 
report on the full account of human rights abuses in 
Ecuador due to a lack of transparency within gov-
ernment institutions in Ecuador; 
(3) calls on the Secretary of State to provide to 
the relevant committees of the United States Senate 
and House of Representatives a budget and perform-
ance review of United States Department of State 
and United States Agency for International Develop-
ment activities in Ecuador funded to promote strong 
democratic institutions, the rule of law, and human 
rights; 
(4) expresses its concern regarding the lack of 
high-level counternarcotics cooperation between the 
United States and Ecuador and regarding aspects of 
Ecuador’s actions that fail to meet the intentions of 
the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) and An-
dean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act 
(ATPDEA); 
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(5) expresses its concern regarding the ex-
panded relationship between Ecuador and Iran; and 
(6) expresses its disinclination to support a re-
newal of the ATPA, as amended by the ATPDEA, 
for Ecuador based on the current status of the con-
cerns contained in this resolution, and calls for a 
careful review of such concerns, in addition to Ecua-
dor’s eligibility as a beneficiary country, when con-
sidering renewal of the ATPA, as amended by the 
ATPDEA, which currently expires on July 31, 2013. 
Æ 
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