menting bill submitted with respect to such 
trade agreement or agreements.’’, with the 
blank space being filled with a description 
of the trade agreement or agreements de-
scribed in subparagraph (A); and 
(ii) shall be referred to the Committee 
on Ways and Means. 
(D) APPLICABILITY OF TRADE AUTHORI-
TIES PROCEDURES.—The trade authorities pro-
cedures shall not apply in the House of Rep-
resentatives to any implementing bill submitted 
with respect to a trade agreement or agree-
ments which are the object of a consultation 
and compliance resolution if such resolution is 
adopted by the House. 
(5) FOR FAILURE TO MEET OTHER REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Not later than December 15, 2015, the 
Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, 
the Attorney General, and the United States Trade 
Representative, shall transmit to Congress a report 
setting forth the strategy of the executive branch to 
address concerns of Congress regarding whether dis-
pute settlement panels and the Appellate Body of 
the World Trade Organization have added to obliga-
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tions, or diminished rights, of the United States, as 
described in section 2(b)(15)(C). Trade authorities 
procedures shall not apply to any implementing bill 
with respect to an agreement negotiated under the 
auspices of the World Trade Organization unless the 
Secretary of Commerce has issued such report by 
the deadline specified in this paragraph. 
(c) RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND 
SENATE.—Subsection (b) of this section, section 3(c), and 
section 5(b)(3) are enacted by Congress— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, re-
spectively, and as such are deemed a part of the 
rules of each House, respectively, and such proce-
dures supersede other rules only to the extent that 
they are inconsistent with such other rules; and 
(2) with the full recognition of the constitu-
tional right of either House to change the rules (so 
far as relating to the procedures of that House) at 
any time, in the same manner, and to the same ex-
tent as any other rule of that House. 
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SEC. 7. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TRADE AGREEMENTS FOR 
WHICH 
NEGOTIATIONS 
HAVE 
ALREADY 
BEGUN. 
(a) CERTAIN AGREEMENTS.—Notwithstanding the 
prenegotiation notification and consultation requirement 
described in section 5(a), if an agreement to which section 
3(b) applies— 
(1) is entered into under the auspices of the 
World Trade Organization, 
(2) is entered into with the Trans-Pacific Part-
nership countries with respect to which notifications 
have been made in a manner consistent with section 
5(a)(1)(A) as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act, 
(3) is entered into with the European Union, 
(4) is an agreement with respect to inter-
national trade in services entered into with WTO 
members with respect to which a notification has 
been made in a manner consistent with section 
5(a)(1)(A) as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act, or 
(5) is an agreement with respect to environ-
mental goods entered into with WTO members with 
respect to which a notification has been made in a 
manner consistent with section 5(a)(1)(A) as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act, 
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and results from negotiations that were commenced before 
the date of the enactment of this Act, subsection (b) shall 
apply. 
(b) TREATMENT OF AGREEMENTS.—In the case of 
any agreement to which subsection (a) applies, the appli-
cability of the trade authorities procedures to imple-
menting bills shall be determined without regard to the 
requirements of section 5(a) (relating only to notice prior 
to initiating negotiations), and any resolution under para-
graph (1)(B), (3)(C), or (4)(C) of section 6(b) shall not 
be in order on the basis of a failure or refusal to comply 
with the provisions of section 5(a), if (and only if) the 
President, as soon as feasible after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act— 
(1) notifies Congress of the negotiations de-
scribed in subsection (a), the specific United States 
objectives in the negotiations, and whether the Presi-
dent is seeking a new agreement or changes to an 
existing agreement; and 
(2) before and after submission of the notice, 
consults regarding the negotiations with the commit-
tees referred to in section 5(a)(1)(B) and the House 
and Senate Advisory Groups on Negotiations con-
vened under section 4(c). 
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