[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1053 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]


[From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access]
[Enrolled Bill]

[From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access]
[Enrolled Bill]

        H.R.1053

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
             the third day of January, two thousand and six


                                 An Act


 
To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade 
            relations treatment) to the products of Ukraine.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
        (1) Ukraine allows its citizens the right and opportunity to 
    emigrate, free of any heavy tax on emigration or on the visas or 
    other documents required for emigration and free of any tax, levy, 
    fine, fee, or other charge on any citizens as a consequence of the 
    desire of such citizens to emigrate to the country of their choice.
        (2) Ukraine has received normal trade relations treatment since 
    1992 and has been found to be in full compliance with the freedom 
    of emigration requirements under title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 
    since 1997.
        (3) Since the establishment of an independent Ukraine in 1991, 
    Ukraine has made substantial progress toward the creation of 
    democratic institutions and a free-market economy.
        (4) Ukraine has committed itself to ensuring freedom of 
    religion, respect for rights of minorities, and eliminating 
    intolerance and has been a paragon of inter-ethnic cooperation and 
    harmony, as evidenced by the annual human rights reports of the 
    Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the 
    United States Department of State.
        (5) Ukraine has taken major steps toward global security by 
    ratifying the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic 
    Offensive Weapons (START I) and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation 
    of Nuclear Weapons, subsequently turning over the last of its 
    Soviet-era nuclear warheads on June 1, 1996, and agreeing, in 1998, 
    not to assist Iran with the completion of a program to develop and 
    build nuclear breeding reactors, and has fully supported the United 
    States in nullifying the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
        (6) At the Madrid Summit in 1997, Ukraine became a member of 
    the North Atlantic Cooperation Council of the North Atlantic Treaty 
    Organization (NATO), and has been a participant in the Partnership 
    for Peace (PfP) program since 1994.
        (7) Ukraine is a peaceful state which established exemplary 
    relations with all neighboring countries, and consistently pursues 
    a course of European integration with a commitment to ensuring 
    democracy and prosperity for its citizens.
        (8) Ukraine has built a broad and durable relationship with the 
    United States and has been an unwavering ally in the struggle 
    against international terrorism that has taken place since the 
    attacks against the United States that occurred on September 11, 
    2001.
        (9) Ukraine has concluded a bilateral trade agreement with the 
    United States that entered into force on June 23, 1992, and is in 
    the process of acceding to the World Trade Organization (WTO). On 
    March 6, 2006, the United States and Ukraine signed a bilateral 
    market access agreement as a part of the WTO accession process.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF APPLICATION OF TITLE IV OF THE TRADE ACT OF 1974 
              TO THE PRODUCTS OF UKRAINE.

    (a) Presidential Determinations and Extension of Nondiscriminatory 
Treatment.--Notwithstanding any provision of title IV of the Trade Act 
of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.), the President may--
        (1) determine that such title should no longer apply to 
    Ukraine; and
        (2) after making a determination under paragraph (1) with 
    respect to Ukraine, proclaim the extension of nondiscriminatory 
    treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of 
    that country.
    (b) Termination of Applicability of Title IV.--On and after the 
effective date under subsection (a) of the extension of 
nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of Ukraine, title IV of the 
Trade Act of 1974 shall cease to apply to that country.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.