[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 723 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 723

To provide for an analysis of the secondary and tertiary Arab boycotts 
   of United States firms doing business with Israel, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 1 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. Lautenberg introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for an analysis of the secondary and tertiary Arab boycotts 
   of United States firms doing business with Israel, 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.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) boycotts fostered or imposed by foreign countries 
        against other countries friendly to the United States or 
        against any United States person are discriminatory trade 
        barriers to international trade;
            (2) the United States should encourage major trading 
        nations of the world engaged in the export of goods or 
        technology to refuse to take action which would have the effect 
        of furthering or supporting boycotts imposed by any foreign 
        country or association against a country friendly to the United 
        States or against any United States person;
            (3) the United States Trade Representative should, in view 
        of the foregoing, be commended for including the Arab boycott 
        in the 1992 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade 
        Barriers; and
            (4) future national trade estimate reports should include 
        expanded information with respect to the Arab boycott.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF REPORTING ON ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT.

    (a) In General.--Section 181 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2241) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Analysis of Arab Boycott.--An analysis under subsection (a) 
shall include--
            ``(1) a country-by-country analysis of the extent to which 
        the government of each such country permits or encourages 
        businesses in that country to comply with the secondary and 
        tertiary Arab boycotts of United States businesses that do 
        business with (or invest in) Israel, including the 
        identification of specific activities to enforce the boycotts,
            ``(2) an analysis of the differences in how foreign 
        countries blacklist businesses and enforce the boycotts, and
            ``(3) an estimate of--
                    ``(A) the value of additional goods and services of 
                the United States, and
                    ``(B) the value of additional foreign direct 
                investment of the United States,
        that would have been exported to, or invested in, each foreign 
        country during the calendar year if the boycotts did not 
        exist.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to calendar years 1994 and thereafter.

SEC. 3. NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVE.

    It is the sense of the Congress that the United States Trade 
Representative and other appropriate officials of the United States 
Government should give the highest priority to seeking an end to 
enforcement of, and compliance with, the secondary and tertiary Arab 
boycotts.

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