Title: Fair Environmental Trade Agreements Act of 2018
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
Fair Environmental Trade Agreements Act of 2018
This bill requires the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to certify that trade agreements meet specified labor and environmental protection standards.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7064 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7064

 To require the United States Trade Representative to certify certain 
 trade agreements respecting labor and the environment entered into by 
               the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 16, 2018

 Mr. Coffman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the United States Trade Representative to certify certain 
 trade agreements respecting labor and the environment entered into by 
               the United States, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Environmental Trade Agreements 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON PROCEDURES WITH RESPECT TO LABOR AND THE 
              ENVIRONMENT.

    (a) Limitations on Procedures With Respect to Labor and the 
Environment.--Section 106(b) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade 
Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4205(b)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(7) Limitations on procedures with respect to labor and 
        the environment.--The trade authorities procedures shall not 
        apply to any implementing bill submitted with respect to a 
        trade agreement or trade agreements entered into under section 
        103(b) unless upon the submission of such bill to Congress the 
        United States Trade Representative certifies to the Committee 
        on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Finance of the Senate that such trade agreement--
                    ``(A) meets the applicable objectives with respect 
                to labor and the environment described in section 
                102(b)(10); and
                    ``(B) includes a mechanism or mechanisms to 
                implement and enforce any provision in such agreement 
                relating to labor or the environment.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Paragraph (7) of section 106(b) of the 
Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 
2015 (19 U.S.C. 4205(b)), as added by subsection (a) of this Act, shall 
apply to trade agreements entered into or renegotiated beginning on the 
date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this section.

SEC. 3. CERTIFICATION OF CERTAIN AGREEMENTS.

    (a) Certification of Certain Agreements.--Upon the submission of an 
implementing bill concerning a trade agreement or trade agreements, the 
United States Trade Representative shall certify to the Committee on 
Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Finance of the Senate that such trade agreement or trade agreements 
entered into by the United States--
            (1) meet the applicable objectives with respect to labor 
        and the environment described in section 102(b)(10) of the 
        Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability 
        Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4202(b)(10)); and
            (2) include a mechanism or mechanisms to implement and 
        enforce any provision in such agreement relating to labor or 
        the environment.
    (b) Application.--Subsection (a) shall apply to implementing bills 
submitted with respect to trade agreements entered into on or after--
            (1) July 1, 2018, if the requirements of section 
        103(c)(1)(A) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities 
        and Accountability Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4202(c)(1)(A)) are 
        not satisfied; or
            (2) the date set forth under section 103(c)(1)(B) of the 
        Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability 
        Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4202(c)(1)(B)).
    (c) Implementing Bill Defined.--In this section, the term 
``implementing bill'' has the meaning given the term in section 
103(b)(3) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and 
Accountability Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4202(b)(3)).
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