[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 60 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 60

  Supporting United States requests to reopen the December 20, 1991, 
     draft final act text in the Uruguay Round to address areas of 
 particular concern to United States manufacturers, environmental and 
                            consumer groups.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 3 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

 Mr. D'Amato submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                        the Committee on Finance

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Supporting United States requests to reopen the December 20, 1991, 
     draft final act text in the Uruguay Round to address areas of 
 particular concern to United States manufacturers, environmental and 
                            consumer groups.

Whereas the completion of the Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations on a basis 
        that advances the interests of United States agriculture, manufacturing 
        and service industries and safeguards the interests of United States 
        citizens in areas such as environmental protection and worker and 
        consumer safety remains a priority matter for the Congress;
Whereas the Congress in the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 
        identified overall and principal trade negotiating objectives (19 U.S.C. 
        2901), which objectives remain critical to the successful conclusion of 
        multilateral trade negotiations;
Whereas on December 20, 1991, the GATT Secretariat released a document entitled 
        ``Draft Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of 
        Multilateral Trade Negotiations'' which document has been criticized by 
        many business and citizen groups as not adequately protecting the 
        interests of the United States;
Whereas throughout 1992 the United States faced continuing efforts by the 
        European Community to reduce the size of the liberalization package in 
        agriculture, a matter of great importance to United States export 
        interests in the agriculture sector, with a resulting agreement in 
        Washington in late November 1992 resolving certain differences in 
        agriculture trade;
Whereas in December 1992, the United States negotiators submitted a list of 
        changes to the December 20, 1991 text that were needed by the United 
        States to protect the interests of United States industries and citizen 
        groups including to the draft texts on:

the Multilateral Trade Organization,

the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade,

the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures,

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Including Trade in 
Counterfeit Goods, and

the Antidumping Code (including (a) guidelines for panel review; (b) 
sunset; and (c) anticircumvention);

Whereas efforts in the ongoing Uruguay Round negotiations during December 1992 
        and January 1993 have not resulted in breakthroughs in other areas of 
        importance to the United States, including market access commitments in 
        goods and initial undertakings in services; and
Whereas a new Administration has assumed the responsibility for completion of 
        the Uruguay Round negotiations as of the afternoon of January 20, 1993: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) the United States negotiators continue to strive for an 
        early conclusion to the Uruguay Round, provided the final text 
        and commitments adequately protect United States interests; and
            (2) United States interests require (a) adoption of the 
        changes proposed by the United States in December 1992 in each 
        of the areas identified, (b) generation of the maximum market 
        access package while being sensitive to our most import 
        sensitive sectors, (c) achieving the maximum initial 
        commitments in the service negotiations.

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