IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 810 
Reaffirming the trade and investment partnership between the United States 
and the European Union is critical to the economic and national security 
of the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 5, 2018 
Mr. KEATING (for himself and Mr. POE of Texas) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
RESOLUTION 
Reaffirming the trade and investment partnership between 
the United States and the European Union is critical 
to the economic and national security of the United 
States. 
Whereas the trade and investment relationship between the 
United States and the European Union is the largest in 
the world; 
Whereas it is estimated that in 2015, United States exports 
to the European Union supported 2,600,000 jobs and 
that European majority-owned affiliates in the United 
States employed 4.3 million workers; 
Whereas strengthening transatlantic economic ties through a 
trade and investment agreement has the potential to re-
shape the rules of trade and to raise global standards on 
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labor and environmental protections, intellectual property 
rights, digital trade, investment, and regulatory coopera-
tion; 
Whereas in 2013, the United States and the European Union 
entered into negotiations to advance the Transatlantic 
Trade and Investment Partnership, and these negotia-
tions were ongoing through 2016; 
Whereas these negotiations have been on hold since the final 
round of negotiations in October 2016; 
Whereas, on March 8, 2018, President Trump announced a 
plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 
the United States; 
Whereas in 2017, the United States imported $7.3 billion in 
steel and aluminum from the European Union, which 
would result in an estimated $2.6 billion in trade losses 
to the European Union should the announced tariffs be 
imposed; 
Whereas job and financial losses to American businesses due 
to potential retaliatory tariffs on a broad range of United 
States exports to the European Union, including on prod-
ucts such as cranberries, peanut butter, and orange juice, 
would be severely detrimental to American workers; 
Whereas the People’s Republic of China has also announced 
proposed retaliatory tariffs on 128 American-made goods, 
including cranberries, pork, and almonds, in response to 
the announced United States tariffs on steel and alu-
minum imports; and 
Whereas in a proclamation issued by President Trump on 
March 22, 2018, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, 
South Korea, Brazil, and European Union member coun-
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tries were afforded an exemption from the announced 
tariffs until May 1, 2018: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) reaffirms the trade and investment partner-
ship between the United States and the European 
Union is critical to the economic and national secu-
rity of the United States; 
(2) urges the Administration to prioritize the 
principles of fair trade in our commercial relation-
ships with our economic and security allies, espe-
cially the member countries of the European Union; 
(3) approves of the temporary exemption from 
steel and aluminum import tariffs issued to the Eu-
ropean Union member countries and other close al-
lies of the United States; and 
(4) urges the President to immediately issue a 
permanent exemption from such tariffs for the Eu-
ropean Union in order to afford our European allies 
the certainty and predictability that our long-
standing transatlantic partnership demands. 
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