[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 499 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 499

To require the withdrawal of the United States from the North American 
             Free Trade Agreement, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 1995

Mr. DeFazio (for himself, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. 
  Brown of Ohio, Mr. Evans, Mr. Everett, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Klink, Mr. 
 Lipinski, Mr. Miller of California, Mrs. Mink of Hawaii, Mr. Pallone, 
Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Taylor of Mississippi, Mr. 
Traficant, and Ms. Velazquez) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the withdrawal of the United States from the North American 
             Free Trade Agreement, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``NAFTA Withdrawal Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. WITHDRAWAL FROM NAFTA.

    Pursuant to Article 2205 of the North American Free Trade 
Agreement, the President of the United States shall, not later than 
ninety days after the date of the enactment of this Act, notify the 
Government of Canada and the Government of the United Mexican States of 
the withdrawal of the Government of the United States from that 
Agreement.

SEC. 3. MODIFICATIONS TO UNITED STATES LAW.

    The President shall, not later than ninety days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, submit to the Congress proposed legislation 
making those changes to United States law that are necessary to make 
effective the withdrawal of the United States from the North American 
Free Trade Agreement.
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