[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1625 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1625

   To prohibit the sale of defense articles and defense services to 
  countries that participate in the secondary and tertiary boycott of 
                                Israel.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             November 4 (legislative day, November 2), 1993

Mr. Brown (for himself and Mr. Moynihan) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the sale of defense articles and defense services to 
  countries that participate in the secondary and tertiary boycott of 
                                Israel.

    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 ``Anti-Economic Discrimination Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) certain countries maintain an economic boycott of 
        Israel, including a secondary boycott of companies that have 
        investments in or trade with Israel;
            (2) the secondary boycott has caused economic damage to the 
        countries that maintain the boycott as well as to Israel;
            (3) the secondary boycott causes great difficulties for 
        United States firms that trade with Israel, depriving them of 
        trade opportunities and violating internationally accepted 
        principles of free trade;
            (4) the United States has a longstanding policy opposing 
        the Arab League boycott and United States law prohibits 
        American firms from providing information to Arab countries to 
        demonstrate compliance with the boycott;
            (5) many American companies may be denied contracts in the 
        West Bank and Gaza for infrastructure development because they 
        conduct business with Israel; and
            (6) many American companies may be denied contracts by the 
        Kuwaiti Government for the reconstruction of Kuwait because 
        they conduct business with Israel.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN SALES AND LEASES.

    (a) Prohibition.--No defense article or defense service may be sold 
or leased by the United States Government to any country or 
international organization that, as a matter of policy or practice, is 
known to have sent letters to United States firms requesting compliance 
with, or soliciting information regarding compliance with, the 
secondary or tertiary Arab boycott, unless the President determines, 
and so certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, that that 
country or organization does not currently maintain a policy or 
practice of making such requests or solicitations.
    (b) Waiver.--
            (1) 1-year waiver.--On or after the effective date of this 
        section, the President may waive, for a period of 1 year, the 
        application of subsection (a) with respect to any country or 
        organization if the President determines, and reports to the 
        appropriate congressional committees, that--
                    (A) such waiver is in the national interest of the 
                United States, and such waiver will promote the 
                objectives of this section to eliminate the Arab 
                boycott; or
                    (B) such waiver is in the national security 
                interest of the United States.
            (2) Extension of waiver.--If the President determines that 
        the further extension of a waiver will promote the objectives 
        of this section, the President, upon notification of the 
        appropriate congressional committees, may grant further 
        extensions of such waiver for successive 12-month periods.
            (3) Termination of waiver.--The President may, at any time, 
        terminate any waiver granted under this subsection.
    (c) Definitions.--As used in this section--
            (1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means 
        the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the 
        Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; 
        and
            (2) the terms ``defense article'' and ``defense service'' 
        have the meanings given to such terms by paragraphs (3) and 
        (4), respectively, of section 47 of the Arms Export Control 
        Act.
    (d) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act.

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