[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1798 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1798

Relating to the application of the Generalized System of Preferences to 
               Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 1993

  Mr. Stark introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
Relating to the application of the Generalized System of Preferences to 
               Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

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

SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY FOR DESIGNATION AS BENEFICIARY DEVELOPING 
              COUNTRIES.

    Section 502(b) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2462(b)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking out ``Union of Soviet Socialist 
        Republics'';
            (2) by inserting ``and subject to subsection (d),'' in the 
        sentence preceding paragraph (1); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d)(1) The President may not designate Belarus, Kazakhstan, or 
Ukraine as a beneficiary developing country under this section unless 
that country accedes to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 
Weapons.
    ``(2) The President may waive the application of any of the 
conditions set forth in paragraphs (1) through (7) of subsection (b) to 
Belarus, Kazakhstan, or Ukraine (after the country accedes to the 
treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) and designate the 
country as a beneficiary developing county; but such designation shall 
terminate on the 15th day after the date of designation unless the 
President, on or before such 15th day, informs the Committee on Ways 
and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance 
of the Senate in writing of the reasons on which the waiver is 
based.''.

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