[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 268 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 268

       To extend the period during which the United States Trade 
Representative is required to identify trade liberalization priorities, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 2, (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Baucus (for himself, Mr. Riegle, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Reid, Mr. 
Conrad, and Mr. Danforth) introduced the following bill; which was read 
             twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
       To extend the period during which the United States Trade 
Representative is required to identify trade liberalization priorities, 
                        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. PERIOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION PRIORITIES 
              EXTENDED.

    Section 310(a) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2420(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``By no later than the date that is 30 days 
        after the date in calendar year 1989, and also the date in 
        calendar year 1990, on which the report required under section 
        181(b) is submitted to the appropriate Congressional 
        committees,'' and inserting ``By no later than September 30 of 
        each of the calendar years 1994 through 1997,'',
            (2) by striking ``such report'' in subparagraph (B) and 
        inserting ``the most recent report submitted under section 
        181(b)'', and
            (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(e) Petitions by Congressional Committees.--The Committee on 
Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House 
of Representatives may file a petition under section 302(a) with 
respect to barriers and market distorting practices of a foreign 
country, if--
            ``(1) the Committee adopts a resolution that an 
        investigation under this chapter should be initiated with 
        respect to barriers and market distorting practices of a 
        foreign country, and
            ``(2) such Committee determines that the foreign country 
        maintains a consistent pattern of import barriers or market 
        distorting practices.''.

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