[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1488 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1488

 To prohibit imports into the United States of meat products from the 
European Community until certain unfair trade barriers are removed, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 25, 1993

 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Grandy, Mr. 
 Gunderson, and Mr. Bereuter) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit imports into the United States of meat products from the 
European Community until certain unfair trade barriers are removed, 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. FINDINGS AND POLICY.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The European Community's Third Country Meat Directive 
        is a nontariff trade barrier.
            (2) The maintenance of this nontariff barrier is a major 
        impediment to United States meat exports to the member states 
        of the European Community.
            (3) United States producers of meat products have been 
        injured by being denied the opportunity to sell their products 
        in the member states of the European Community.
            (4) The imposition of this nontariff barrier has had a 
        harmful effect on United States commercial interest and has 
        created a serious trade dispute between the United States and 
        the European Community.
            (5) Efforts by the United States Government to negotiate a 
        resolution to this dispute have been unsuccessful.
            (6) The European Community is expanding its share of the 
        United States pork market through the unfair use of export 
        subsidies, and this expansion is further injuring the United 
        States pork industry.
            (7) In order to prevent further economic injury to the 
        United States meat industry, the United States Government must 
        take stronger action to remove the major impediment to United 
        States exports created by the Third Country Meat Directive.
            (8) In order to demonstrate its determination to obtain 
        access to the European market for United States producers, the 
        United States Government should retaliate against the European 
        Community's imposition of the Third Country Meat Directive.
            (9) The form of retaliation that is most likely to succeed 
        in bringing the dispute to a resolution is to restrict imports 
        of meat products from the European Community to the United 
        States.
    (b) Policy.--It is the policy of the United States that the 
European Community's Third Country Meat Directive is an unfair 
nontariff trade barrier and that it is in the public interest to remove 
this barrier to exports of United States meat products.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST ENTRY OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MEAT PRODUCTS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 15 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President shall prohibit the entry into the 
United States of all European Community meat products.
    (b) Duration.--The prohibition imposed under subsection (a) shall 
remain in full force and effect until the European Community removes 
the impediment to United States meat imports into the European 
Community caused by the Third Country Meat Directive, and until meat 
products raised and produced in the United States are permitted full 
and fair access to the markets of the European Community.

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