Title: A bill to require the President to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and to make that Agreement ineligible for expedited consideration by Congress.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
This bill directs the President to provide to the governments of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam written notice of the withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
The bill amends the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 to declare that congressional trade authorities procedures (fast track) shall not apply to an implementing bill submitted with respect to a trade agreement with the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 172 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 172

To require the President to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership 
     Agreement and to make that Agreement ineligible for expedited 
                       consideration by Congress.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 17, 2017

Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Ms. Warren, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Markey, and Mr. 
   Merkley) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the President to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership 
     Agreement and to make that Agreement ineligible for expedited 
                       consideration by Congress.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. WITHDRAWAL FROM TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT.

    (a) Notification of Withdrawal.--On the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the President shall provide to the Governments of Australia, 
Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, 
Singapore, and Vietnam, written notice of withdrawal of the United 
States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement in accordance with 
Article 30.6 of that Agreement.
    (b) Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement'' means the Trans-
Pacific Partnership Agreement signed on February 4, 2016, by the United 
States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New 
Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.

SEC. 2. INELIGIBILITY OF TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT FOR 
              EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION BY CONGRESS.

    Section 107 of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and 
Accountability Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4206) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (2) and by 
        redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) as paragraphs (2), 
        (3), and (4), respectively; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Ineligibility of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement for 
Trade Authorities Procedures.--The trade authorities procedures shall 
not apply to an implementing bill submitted with respect to a trade 
agreement with the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries.''.
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