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		<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code>
		<congress display="yes">110th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session display="yes">1st Session</session>
		<legis-num display="yes">S. 364</legis-num>
		<current-chamber display="yes">IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
		  STATES</current-chamber>
		<action display="yes">
			<action-date date="20070123">January 23, 2007</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="S176">Mr. Rockefeller</sponsor>
			 introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
			 <committee-name committee-id="SSFI00">Committee on
			 Finance</committee-name></action-desc>
		</action>
		<legis-type display="yes">A BILL</legis-type>
		<official-title display="yes">To strengthen United States trade laws and
		  for other purposes.</official-title>
	</form>
	<legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" style="OLC">
		<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF2F3EA9EF6774EFF985C377BC289CF36" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title; table of contents</header>
			<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5D927D52A3164ABE9E3A54EC70F3C16C"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the
			 <quote>Strengthening America's Trade Laws Act</quote>.</text>
			</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1A9C945133B740FE8CAA5304C55ACDB4"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Table of contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents for this Act is as
			 follows:</text>
				<toc>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="idF2F3EA9EF6774EFF985C377BC289CF36" level="section">Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID2E62D9A724794D5584447A0D48B51E0B" level="title">TITLE I—Dispute Settlement</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="id163E067404A84A3381CBB4C6F7A7C723" level="subtitle">Subtitle A—Findings, purpose, and definitions</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="IDE0197715D1EE48FE83BFB46A74609ED0" level="section">Sec. 101. Congressional findings and purpose.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="idB10B56590F694226A86CA4C6B4EC4803" level="section">Sec. 102. Definitions.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID1990DAC3C6B84418A53A276059C5A591" level="subtitle">Subtitle B—Participation in WTO panel proceedings</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID0C540B0575864103810075B0ECD090F8" level="section">Sec. 111. Participation in WTO panel proceedings.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="idE87A63BA485D40379213356E9CE3FC7F" level="subtitle">Subtitle C—Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO Dispute
				Settlement</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="IDEA8D4022B83948E590E053B5BAC578CD" level="section">Sec. 121. Establishment of Commission.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID9267B53BCAD64FC1B4A2468E03C97A9F" level="section">Sec. 122. Duties of the Commission.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID8DC57369FABD4CD7BBC1D4AAC491D1C7" level="section">Sec. 123. Powers of the Commission.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID501EC3CB17B246F796190E763FAAB660" level="subtitle">Subtitle D—Congressional approval of regulatory action
				relating to adverse WTO decisions</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="IDc7c4bfa1dd2a479a9a4a4c20df8eef1f" level="section">Sec. 131. Congressional approval of regulatory actions relating
				to adverse WTO decisions.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="idB41BDEDF25D747B9AE9F19A3C690FF33" level="subtitle">Subtitle E—Clarification of rights and obligations through
				negotiations</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="idD6AD468B50934F0DB23D6EE42019589A" level="section">Sec. 141. Clarification of rights and obligations in the WTO
				through negotiations.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID3AC6A879BFD34EB3A0BF7C9F150DE959" level="title">TITLE II—Strengthening antidumping and countervailing duty
				laws</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="H054696F703A9499A80FB003BB964E95B" level="section">Sec. 201. Prevention
				of circumvention.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID1d5ae9a95b2f4aa089c95888c9e0bb56" level="section">Sec. 202. Export price and constructed export
				price.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID35A8470BAAB349BCA43C0ED808AA5BE2" level="section">Sec. 203. Nonmarket economy methodology.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="H629CAEF69DC444E2AD002F99922CBEB9" level="section">Sec. 204.
				Determinations on the basis of facts available.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="idD9252DCE736641A39927B1C3AB017546" level="section">Sec. 205. Clarification of determination of material
				injury.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="id3934AFD7BBCC41029B8368D0657B69F1" level="section">Sec. 206. Revocation of nonmarket economy country
				status.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID39FB1D17BF474FC4B352E79EA6B8841A" level="title">TITLE III—Expansion of applicability of countervailing
				duties</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="IDDD6C3B812A0544F285AE4DDD66E09272" level="section">Sec. 301. Application of countervailing duties to nonmarket
				economies and strengthening application of the law.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="ID22F6A9F08B8C4EB98BD10CAF66A7567C" level="section">Sec. 302. Treatment of exchange-rate manipulation as
				countervailable subsidy under title <enum-in-header>VII</enum-in-header> of the
				<act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name>.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="H9DEF94AA10B149A6A7007DD2F06E3C88" level="section">Sec. 303. Affirmation
				of negotiating objective on border taxes.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="HD5365192CFA8440085AE375EB516B669" level="section">Sec. 304.
				Presidential certification; application of countervailing duty law.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="IDE7C268FA39AF4CF885BF2AA5FBF78548" level="title">TITLE IV—Limitation on presidential discretion in addressing
				market disruption</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="id0F04F5C2B060400288317F238B92FB6A" level="section">Sec. 401. Action to address market disruption.</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="id2904E09B8A7949369E422A7D43C0CB9F" level="title">TITLE V—Miscellaneous</toc-entry>
					<toc-entry bold="off" idref="idC15206FB0C2C4BF0B7A45607AF681D23" level="section">Sec. 501. Application to Canada and Mexico.</toc-entry>
				</toc>
			</subsection></section><title commented="no" id="ID2E62D9A724794D5584447A0D48B51E0B" level-type="subsequent"><enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dispute Settlement</header>
			<subtitle commented="no" id="id163E067404A84A3381CBB4C6F7A7C723" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>A</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Findings, purpose, and definitions</header>
				<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE0197715D1EE48FE83BFB46A74609ED0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional findings and purpose</header>
					<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID135348FB2208441488B1CB9A754FF5A6"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Findings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Congress finds the following:</text>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5DC203DDF6CE4EC1AE701EFB6A4B5B65"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The United States joined the World Trade
			 Organization as an original member with the goal of creating an improved global
			 trading system and providing expanded economic opportunities for United States
			 workers, farmers, and businesses.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0BEE7834635B469F9A0AA5AEF15F795A"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The dispute settlement rules of the WTO
			 were created to enhance the likelihood that governments will observe their WTO
			 obligations.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF86606D5194E4089BD0D18D378A75B92"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Successful operation of the WTO dispute
			 settlement system was critical to congressional approval of the Uruguay Round
			 Agreements and is critical to continued support by the United States for the
			 WTO. In particular, it is imperative that dispute settlement panels and the
			 Appellate Body—</text>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID161650B61EF844B08E69F37060725941"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">operate with fairness and in an impartial
			 manner;</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID336242FFDF3D4A6DBFDF16C6A84631BF"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">strictly observe the terms of reference and
			 any applicable standard of review set forth in the Uruguay Round Agreements;
			 and</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF100B5F1B17B469B97B2DA93BC778966"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not add to the obligations, or diminish the
			 rights, of WTO members under the Uruguay Round Agreements in violation of
			 Articles 3.2 and 19.2 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding.</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFA5F7CBA42E1423F9C34A7D0898E0C61"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An increasing number of reports by dispute
			 settlement panels and the Appellate Body have raised serious concerns within
			 the Congress about the ability of the WTO dispute settlement system to operate
			 in accordance with paragraph (3).</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDF0F5A642D554BC9940FE92A275C8148"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In particular, several reports of dispute
			 settlement panels and the Appellate Body have added to the obligations and
			 diminished the rights of WTO members, particularly under the Agreement on
			 Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
			 1994, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and the Agreement
			 on Safeguards.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID61BC0C48869249E292039A572158427B"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to come into compliance with
			 reports of dispute settlement panels and the Appellate Body that have been
			 adopted by the Dispute Settlement Body, the Congress may need to amend or
			 repeal statutes of the United States. In such cases, the Congress must have a
			 high degree of confidence that the reports are in accordance with paragraph
			 (3).</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID692174D8330B4F4599EFF70F8EC1AA97"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Congress needs impartial, objective,
			 and juridical advice to determine the appropriate response to reports of
			 dispute settlement panels and the Appellate Body.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF36A38F0FF51479AAB9886BE2C56475F"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The United States remains committed to the
			 multilateral, rules-based trading system.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDA6FC58BBD6A4193BE10A17C009C33F5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the purpose of this subtitle to
			 provide for the establishment of the Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO
			 Dispute Settlement to provide objective and impartial advice to the Congress on
			 the operation of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade
			 Organization.</text>
					</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB10B56590F694226A86CA4C6B4EC4803" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE23C09EC42564570A1B55B57A2034184"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adverse finding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>adverse finding</term>
			 means—</text>
						<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFBBE111119E641DEB5A3CB353E898642"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in a proceeding of a dispute settlement
			 panel or the Appellate Body that is initiated against the United States, a
			 finding by the panel or the Appellate Body that any law, regulation, practice,
			 or interpretation of the United States, or any State, is inconsistent with the
			 obligations of the United States under a Uruguay Round Agreement (or nullifies
			 or impairs benefits accruing to a WTO member under such an Agreement);
			 or</text>
						</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC5FF00476EF840D5924DC77350544E2D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in a proceeding of a panel or the Appellate
			 Body in which the United States is a complaining party, any finding by the
			 panel or the Appellate Body that a measure of the party complained against is
			 not inconsistent with that party’s obligations under a Uruguay Round Agreement
			 (or does not nullify or impair benefits accruing to the United States under
			 such an Agreement).</text>
						</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA51B6427E1D34753BCCE54A3F6867412"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appellate
			 body</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Appellate
			 Body</term> means the Appellate Body established by the Dispute Settlement Body
			 pursuant to Article 17.1 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0C3E6859B3254DDEB1C03954874AAF56"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate congressional
			 committees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
			 <term>appropriate congressional committees</term> means the Committee on
			 Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
			 Representatives.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFE3EF01AC9F44D35A1A5B054FB698711"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dispute settlement body</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Dispute Settlement
			 Body</term> means the Dispute Settlement Body established pursuant to the
			 Dispute Settlement Understanding.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID158AC4B78CBF45F2B824DE0F09E49413"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dispute settlement panel;
			 panel</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>dispute
			 settlement panel</term> and <term>panel</term> mean a panel established
			 pursuant to Article 6 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID13A6A4A30DF94064AAAB579A0BDB161F"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dispute settlement
			 understanding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
			 <term>Dispute Settlement Understanding</term> means the Understanding on Rules
			 and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes referred to in section
			 101(d)(16) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3511(d)(16)).</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID56B7216C49354E26935AE09C326953DB"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Terms of reference</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>terms of reference</term>
			 has the meaning given that term in the Dispute Settlement Understanding.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID875E240BEF124BDAA5D6283CC9A4D8F3"><enum>(8)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trade representative</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Trade Representative</term>
			 means the United States Trade Representative.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID27F23E793FAD44BAADD325980E0A4C56"><enum>(9)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">United states person</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>United States person</term>
			 means—</text>
						<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5A07149C14464E44A3BFFA3EE1877515"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a United States citizen or an alien
			 admitted for permanent residence into the United States; and</text>
						</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6E93A51F04EB41888E485C4858F4327D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a corporation, partnership, labor
			 organization, or other legal entity organized under the laws of the United
			 States or of any State, the District of Columbia, or any commonwealth,
			 territory, or possession of the United States.</text>
						</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC858DF6AD3E9456BAD864D842006178A"><enum>(10)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Uruguay round agreement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Uruguay Round
			 Agreement</term> means any of the Agreements described in section 101(d) of the
			 Uruguay Round Agreements Act.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID527F31B0CFAC429E9B057995B00CA3AA"><enum>(11)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">World trade organization; wto</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>World Trade
			 Organization</term> and <term>WTO</term> mean the organization established
			 pursuant to the WTO Agreement.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID55B1C83942A447EC8A861CAE88AF6925"><enum>(12)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">WTO agreement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>WTO Agreement</term> means
			 the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization entered into on April
			 15, 1994.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID140B640ECCA446899CCBC369A9CA816B"><enum>(13)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">WTO member</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>WTO member</term> has the
			 meaning given that term in section 2(10) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act
			 (19 U.S.C. 3501(10)).</text>
					</paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="ID1990DAC3C6B84418A53A276059C5A591" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>B</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Participation in WTO panel
			 proceedings</header>
				<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0C540B0575864103810075B0ECD090F8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Participation in WTO panel
			 proceedings</header>
					<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3EBBCDE9335047A2B9F1CA2ADFF18973"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Trade Representative, in proceedings
			 before a dispute settlement panel or the Appellate Body of the WTO,
			 seeks—</text>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9BA810110A3B4CBD8AB356D404B7D6E2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to enforce United States rights under a
			 multilateral trade agreement, or</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDABE698CD40194885BC5074AF4E169B8F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to defend an action or determination of the
			 United States Government that is challenged,</text>
						</paragraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="subsection">a United States person that is
			 supportive of the United States Government’s position before the panel or
			 Appellate Body and that has a direct economic interest in the panel’s or
			 Appellate Body’s resolution of the matters in dispute shall be permitted to
			 participate in consultations and panel or Appellate Body proceedings. The Trade
			 Representative shall issue regulations, consistent with subsections (b) and
			 (c), ensuring full and effective participation by any such person.</continuation-text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2138920E2F30422DABA807E539D85F3C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Access to Information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Trade Representative shall make
			 available to persons described in subsection (a) all information presented to
			 or otherwise obtained by the Trade Representative in connection with the WTO
			 dispute settlement proceeding in which such persons are participating. The
			 Trade Representative shall promulgate regulations to protect information
			 designated as confidential in the proceeding.</text>
					</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9F98424E1B1646AB8E36FABD24C5EB9F"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Participation in Panel
			 Process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon request from a
			 person described in subsection (a), the Trade Representative shall—</text>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFC64A6CCAE7F46DF818375B8CEE8A78E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consult in advance with such person
			 regarding the content of written submissions from the United States to the
			 panel or Appellate Body concerned or to the other member countries
			 involved;</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7B88DAB878A64596B6AA0B2961EC02F8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include, if appropriate, such person or the
			 person's appropriate representative as an advisory member of the delegation in
			 sessions of the dispute settlement panel or Appellate Body;</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1BB84591AD76495EBA95601ADC78CE85"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">allow such person, if such person would
			 bring special knowledge to the proceeding, to appear before the panel or
			 Appellate Body, directly or through counsel, under the supervision of
			 responsible United States Government officials; and</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID38F674689C0F43549724EFF521D9F29D"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in proceedings involving confidential
			 information, allow the appearance of such person only through counsel as a
			 member of the special delegation.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="idE87A63BA485D40379213356E9CE3FC7F" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>C</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO
			 Dispute Settlement</header>
				<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDEA8D4022B83948E590E053B5BAC578CD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>121.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Commission</header>
					<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID99A0C89D541C472094F374F4571F3F86"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established a commission to be
			 known as the Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO Dispute Settlement (in
			 this subtitle referred to as the <quote>Commission</quote>).</text>
					</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID193DBF0C7C924B7B8DF36B65A417DE9C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Membership</header>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB33EDBD60D824EB9B1FC8852DDD5E9D7"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Composition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall be composed of 5
			 members, all of whom shall be judges or former judges of the Federal judicial
			 circuits and shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives
			 and the President pro tempore of the Senate after considering the
			 recommendations of the Chairman and ranking member of each of the appropriate
			 congressional committees. Commissioners shall be chosen without regard to
			 political affiliation and solely on the basis of each Commissioner’s fitness to
			 perform the duties of a Commissioner.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2A37E68D0FCF42D9BAA9343224C78E84"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The appointments of the initial members of
			 the Commission shall be made not later than 90 days after the date of the
			 enactment of this Act.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID69EEC1B1C8974EC79DD6F50D80A1CC43"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Period of Appointment; Vacancies</header>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID70AD93C176A54CD0A3758654358A3ACE"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Members of the Commission shall each be
			 appointed for a term of 5 years, except that of the members first appointed, 3
			 members shall each be appointed for a term of 3 years.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID42E1FCB03BE940A89130A2606C438CFB"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Vacancies</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4464FBAAFDB641089ACF165BD3D7AA48"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any vacancy on the Commission shall not
			 affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner in which the original
			 appointment was made and shall be subject to the same conditions as the
			 original appointment.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8206A8B857D645C2B3F82301DCA5A755"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unexpired
			 term</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An individual chosen to
			 fill a vacancy shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the member
			 replaced.</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDAF11C8D899F84091BDE57AABCBDC3844"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Initial Meeting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date on
			 which all members of the Commission have been appointed, the Commission shall
			 hold its first meeting.</text>
					</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID27F3BF7FAF434BC9ACBD129DD8F50DE8"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Meetings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except for the initial meeting, the
			 Commission shall meet at the call of the Chairperson.</text>
					</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID44CCDE465D9C4D1BB45106F245B953AA"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Quorum</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A majority of the members of the Commission
			 shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser number of members may hold
			 hearings.</text>
					</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8071B08B95924F05BCC36E433583B336"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chairperson and Vice
			 Chairperson</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission
			 shall select a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson from among its members.</text>
					</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID378DD080A6CD44239937F2A7C8370288"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Members of the Commission shall be allowed
			 travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence at rates authorized
			 for employees of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United
			 States Code, while away from their homes or regular places of business in the
			 performance of services for the Commission.</text>
					</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9267B53BCAD64FC1B4A2468E03C97A9F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>122.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties of the Commission</header>
					<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD66A9AD2E97D4A109D14C917FADB5617"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advising the Congress on the Operation of
			 the WTO Dispute Settlement System</header>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE0F42CD5161E4074AD3FE172A9FEA69F"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall review—</text>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7A3612CBE9D7416E8BB2F443D8E765C1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">all adverse findings that are—</text>
								<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8A3207A08AE644BF883D25891D4981C0"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">adopted by the Dispute Settlement Body;
			 and</text>
								</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID86752C5ED3574A248999636F804A88CE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the result of a proceeding initiated
			 against the United States by a WTO member; and</text>
								</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA3E118E307E94B48A88607CEED1BE406"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">upon the request of either of the
			 appropriate congressional committees—</text>
								<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC34A8511C3F8484C87CB74A66A1BF3C2"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any adverse finding of a dispute settlement
			 panel or the Appellate Body—</text>
									<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID85862CADB9504878B8370F214E7FF4DB"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that is adopted by the Dispute Settlement
			 Body; and</text>
									</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID177B8F4F44214A02BB351BAFECD70027"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in which the United States is a complaining
			 party; or</text>
									</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2BA4A9671DB5454D942E87BF2089D131"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other finding that is contained in a
			 report of a dispute settlement panel or the Appellate Body that is adopted by
			 the Dispute Settlement Body.</text>
								</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDBD8C81DBDE99458B95713AAAB5CAD8EA"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Scope of review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall advise the Congress in
			 connection with each adverse finding under paragraph (1)(A) or (1)(B)(i) or
			 other finding under paragraph (1)(B)(ii) on—</text>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9A6127EE10E449F5BB41509CE650F522"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the dispute settlement panel or the
			 Appellate Body, as the case may be—</text>
								<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID054D3AA57404417A8ACB1CD80C237F66"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">exceeded its authority or its terms of
			 reference;</text>
								</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID59AC5AE6075A49EA88012FD85B34955B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">added to the obligations, or diminished the
			 rights, of the United States under the Uruguay Round Agreement that is the
			 subject of the finding;</text>
								</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7E09289FE49949A1BC2B115F2B362DFE"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">acted arbitrarily or capriciously, engaged
			 in misconduct, or demonstrably departed from the procedures specified for
			 panels and the Appellate Body in the applicable Uruguay Round Agreement;
			 or</text>
								</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1638E93A54254EFCB447F664FDAC0250"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">deviated from the applicable standard of
			 review, including in antidumping, countervailing duty, and other trade remedy
			 cases, the standard of review set forth in Article 17.6 of the Agreement on
			 Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
			 1994;</text>
								</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDEBBB81ED5A21488C81B791D6D375E2EB"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the finding is consistent with the
			 original understanding by the United States of the Uruguay Round Agreement that
			 is the subject of the finding as explained in the statement of administrative
			 action approved under section 101(a) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19
			 U.S.C. 3511(a)); and</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79E9664DDC2341BBAFA55AC458DFCE58"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">what actions, if any, the United States
			 should take in response to the finding, including any proposals to amend,
			 rescind, or otherwise modify a law, regulation, practice, or interpretation of
			 the United States.</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID844F465EE5FD4B37BD588282557D6958"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">No deference</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In advising the Congress under paragraph
			 (2), the Commission shall not accord deference to findings of law made by the
			 dispute settlement panel or the Appellate Body, as the case may be.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID21733AC85A364D21BCC105DE80350712"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determination; Report</header>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCBDCFC2FB180437EA31CCA879AD7F514"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determination</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9A0EBF95FBD2442D87CC9CA1B21925D5"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 150 days after the date on
			 which the Commission receives notice of a report or request under section
			 123(b), the Commission shall make a written determination with respect to the
			 matters described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a), including a full analysis
			 of the basis for its determination. A vote by a majority of the members of the
			 Commission shall constitute a determination of the Commission, although the
			 members need not agree on the basis for their vote.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID36E013638DDD45A5B910348DA2EE306D"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dissenting or concurring
			 opinions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any member of the
			 Commission who disagrees with a determination of the Commission or who concurs
			 in such a determination on a basis different from that of the Commission or
			 other members of the Commission, may write an opinion expressing such
			 disagreement or concurrence, as the case may be.</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID723D08104B954E4BB584B441487F7F5C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall promptly report the
			 determinations described in paragraph (1)(A) to the appropriate congressional
			 committees. The Commission shall include with the report any opinions written
			 under paragraph (1)(B) with respect to the determination.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID67518E5F428844F3A1814774C6CF7400"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability to the Public</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each report of the Commission under
			 subsection (b)(2), together with the opinions included with the report, shall
			 be made available to the public.</text>
					</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8DC57369FABD4CD7BBC1D4AAC491D1C7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>123.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Powers of the Commission</header>
					<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID392D712EFA4B4A9EA95CDE78D97F80D7"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hearings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission may hold a public hearing to
			 solicit views concerning an adverse finding or other finding described in
			 section 122(a)(1), if the Commission considers such hearing to be necessary to
			 carry out the purpose of this subtitle. The Commission shall provide reasonable
			 notice of a hearing held pursuant to this subsection.</text>
					</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID86F5622E20104E5CBC7A6B36A4E99322"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information From Interested Parties and
			 Federal Agencies</header>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5F6FB1FB44C24FFBB365D144EA3DBED2"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notice to commission</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1650F5F7C36545D2884CC414BDA2B4A7"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Under section
			 <enum-in-header>122(a)(1)(A)</enum-in-header></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Trade Representative shall advise the
			 Commission not later than 5 business days after the date the Dispute Settlement
			 Body adopts an adverse finding that is to be reviewed by the Commission under
			 section 122(a)(1)(A).</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDBC58F94BE89F4A969D9E540218CF1F50"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Under section
			 <enum-in-header>122(a)(1)(B)</enum-in-header></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Either of the appropriate congressional
			 committees may make and notify the Commission of a request under section
			 122(a)(1)(B) not later than 1 year after the Dispute Settlement Body adopts the
			 adverse finding or other finding that is the subject of the request.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0A192E16704D4F4EB3669E177C8E4C42"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Findings adopted prior to appointment of
			 commission</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to
			 any adverse finding or other finding to which section 122(a)(1)(B) applies and
			 that is adopted before the date on which the first members of the Commission
			 are appointed under section 121(b)(2), either of the appropriate congressional
			 committees may make and notify the Commission of a request under section
			 122(a)(1)(B) with respect to the adverse finding or other finding not later
			 than 1 year after the date on which the first members of the Commission are
			 appointed under section 121(b)(2).</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID818D760EF3104A8B89503663596BC8E3"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Submissions and requests for
			 information</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDEAEE1ED1DAB140F99EF3F615014DD4F1"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall promptly publish in
			 the Federal Register notice of—</text>
								<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE3944E5DFC9A46518DA86519129E93A6"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the notice received under paragraph (1)
			 from the Trade Representative or either of the appropriate congressional
			 committees; and</text>
								</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id09D01DB8363A47FC8C4A381549EBA168"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an opportunity for interested parties to
			 submit written comments to the Commission.</text>
								</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id481E6ADD7DFF449E93A5B669F6822BE5"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Comments available to public</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall make comments
			 submitted pursuant to subparagraph (A)(ii) available to the public.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB895FA87A3E84E8DA9B085FD3818877D"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information from Federal agencies and
			 departments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission
			 may secure directly from any Federal department or agency such information as
			 the Commission considers necessary to carry out the provisions of this
			 subtitle. Upon the request of the chairperson of the Commission, the head of
			 such department or agency shall furnish the information requested to the
			 Commission in a timely manner.</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID44E76CAF3D9F495299516E4949D37C81"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Access to panel and appellate body
			 documents</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2AA3DD1EE8C148FBBCBD081763BA8D0D"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Trade Representative shall make
			 available to the Commission all submissions and relevant documents relating to
			 an adverse finding described in section 122(a)(1), including any information
			 contained in such submissions and relevant documents identified by the provider
			 of the information as proprietary information or information designated as
			 confidential by a foreign government.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD5EEE82C6D0741A8B6F8A799853E3862"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public access</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any document that the Trade Representative
			 submits to the Commission shall be available to the public, except information
			 that is identified as proprietary or confidential or the disclosure of which
			 would otherwise violate the rules of the WTO.</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID18C792A376AF49D8B7D9B741A27072E9"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistance From Federal Agencies;
			 Confidentiality</header>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID19A896CFFB6F43BC904DC73F23A4D4C7"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any agency or department of the United
			 States that is designated by the President shall provide administrative
			 services, funds, facilities, staff, or other support services to the Commission
			 to assist the Commission with the performance of the Commission’s
			 functions.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5286C01BE23D46E3A63026DCD635A397"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Confidentiality</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB6736CDD4FA04062A92D7000D12889FB"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Documents and information from
			 agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall
			 protect from disclosure any document or information submitted to it by a
			 department or agency of the United States that the agency or department
			 requests be kept confidential.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB2DD4A774BD34592BF046DCB2E3358C0"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Disclosure of documents and information of
			 Commission</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission
			 shall not be considered to be an agency for purposes of section 552 of title 5,
			 United States Code.</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="ID501EC3CB17B246F796190E763FAAB660" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>D</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional approval of regulatory action
			 relating to adverse WTO decisions</header>
				<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc7c4bfa1dd2a479a9a4a4c20df8eef1f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>131.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional approval of regulatory
			 actions relating to adverse WTO decisions</header>
					<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A45857C8E5C4602B758A1AC86C49A63"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 123(g) of the Uruguay Round
			 Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3533(g)) is amended—</text>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID812668af47a94965bb90cdf75f6e02ed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49E32B9056F54ACA8DEFE23467994333"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E), by striking
			 <quote>and</quote>;</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf05b7e23c2af4847abbeeda59d4df667"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (F) as
			 subparagraph (H); and</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDe4795263e1834ab3bdb252b6b29de646"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (E) the
			 following new subparagraphs:</text>
								<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E1D037C170C4AC3948301FB82800A02" style="OLC">
									<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDdc3ab7daae18434d96383546e5e9dcaf"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the appropriate congressional committees
				have received the report on the determinations of the Congressional Advisory
				Commission on WTO Dispute Settlement under section 122(b)(2) of the
				Strengthening America's Trade Laws Act with respect to the relevant dispute
				settlement panel or Appellate Body decision;</text>
									</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5be9f084deda4b4eb4a6e08741dae60b"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a joint resolution, described in paragraph
				(2), approving the proposed modification or final rule is enacted into law
				after the appropriate congressional committees receive the report on the
				determinations of the Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO Dispute
				Settlement under section 122(b)(2) of the Strengthening America's Trade Laws
				Act; and</text>
									</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
				and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
							</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2b133e0cb9c24ba3b80b1e27e6ea6729"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending paragraph (2) to read as
			 follows:</text>
							<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7B7C6830D95B42068B98FECCFB5297B7" style="OLC">
								<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0d6dda2669ca49ce89fe1cd6110046cf"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Joint resolution to approve modification in
				agency regulation or practice</header>
									<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7D7E0F590FE44AA1924E1ABE99C6261C"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the purposes of paragraph (1)(G), a
				joint resolution is a joint resolution of the 2 Houses of the Congress, the
				matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: <quote>That the
				Congress approves the modifications to the regulation or practice of the United
				States proposed in a report submitted to the Congress under subparagraph (D) or
				(F) of section 123(g)(1) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C.
				3533(g)(1) (D) and (F)) on _______, relating to ______.</quote>, with the first
				blank space being filled with the date on which the report is submitted to the
				Congress and the second blank space being filled with the specific modification
				proposed to the regulation or practice of the United States.</text>
									</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5546A0D78F0545BC87E83F4FBEEA1BB2"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Procedural provisions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The procedural provisions of subsections
				(d) through (i) of section 206 of the Strengthening America's Trade Laws Act
				shall apply to a joint resolution described in subparagraph
				(A).</text>
									</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
						</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDabcf83766674403ca86513077338bad2"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date</header>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF9E536FDEFDA453CB48F95DC5FF523FC"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section shall
			 take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1BD8CE69C7BB4759B29A022DA3909B97"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modifications made between January 1, 2007
			 and the date of the enactment of this Act</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4EF51B3224BA4472A50AD17B13E2C50B"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modifications to any regulation or practice
			 of a department or agency of the United States made pursuant to the provisions
			 of section 123(g) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3533(g)) that
			 became effective on or after January 1, 2007, and before the date of the
			 enactment of this Act, shall be suspended upon the enactment of this Act and
			 have no effect.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA639E0B008C0421DA9D539340F879A6B"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Approval of modifications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On or after the date of the enactment of
			 this Act, the Trade Representative and the head of the department or agency
			 within whose jurisdiction the modification described in subparagraph (A) falls
			 may seek approval of such modification pursuant to the procedures set out in
			 section 123(g)(1) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3533(g)(1)),
			 as amended by subsection (a).</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="idB41BDEDF25D747B9AE9F19A3C690FF33" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>E</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarification of rights and obligations
			 through negotiations</header>
				<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6AD468B50934F0DB23D6EE42019589A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>141.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarification of rights and obligations in
			 the WTO through negotiations</header>
					<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID55520294369f439082fb6e288be5c41b"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">After an adverse finding, the United States
			 shall work within the World Trade Organization to obtain clarification of the
			 Uruguay Round Agreement to which the adverse finding applies to conform the
			 Agreement to the understanding of the United States regarding the rights and
			 obligations of the United States and shall not modify the law, regulation,
			 practice, or interpretation of the United States in response to the adverse
			 finding if—</text>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDA6D9674A82745A1AD247C501B18096B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the United States has stated at the Dispute
			 Settlement Body that the adverse finding has created obligations never agreed
			 to by the United States;</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA9838BFAC68C496FA4B19BA00001B549"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">either of the appropriate congressional
			 committees by resolution finds that the adverse finding has created obligations
			 never agreed to by the United States; or</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id746AF4ED3E14437E83C84AD1814E2308"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Congressional Advisory Commission on
			 WTO Dispute Resolution makes a determination under section 122(a)(2)(A)(ii)
			 that the adverse finding has created obligations never agreed to by the United
			 States.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID092c7cac148b45a7bdbbf68ab6c08600"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability</header>
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID95679b13605c483bb0c2e20f33d2e447"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section shall apply to any adverse
			 finding on or after January 1, 2002.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID42f13327238c430f96f19e86b827e5f0"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effect on modification of regulation,
			 practice, or interpretation adopted before enactment of this Act</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB06FE0909B9F487BA7517E3DE4364F2D"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any agency that modified a regulation,
			 practice, or interpretation in response to an adverse finding between January
			 1, 2002 and the date of the enactment of this Act shall provide notice that the
			 modification shall cease to have force and effect on the date that is 30 days
			 after the date of the enactment of this Act and such modification shall cease
			 to have force and effect on such date.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9B0D84CACB4B44B2860CD63962C764AD"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability in trade remedy
			 cases</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The cessation of the
			 force and effect of the modification described in subparagraph (A) shall apply
			 with respect to—</text>
								<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E00F6D5F5864F578711D980866F1033"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">investigations initiated—</text>
									<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD60D738B8E954AD88C8A565756659136"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on the basis of petitions filed under
			 section 702(b), 732(b), or 783(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C.
			 1671a(b), 1673a(b), and 1677n(a)) or section 202(a), 221, 251(a), or 292(a) of
			 the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2252(a), 2271, 2341(a), and 2401a(a)) after
			 the date on which the modification ceases to have force and effect under
			 subparagraph (A);</text>
									</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id765B7A0902544638B145429D1E0EAC96"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by the administering authority under
			 section 702(a) or 732(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671a(a) and
			 1673a(a)) after such date; or</text>
									</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38CD545793AD4C08BEB21657473F97E6"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under section 753 of the Tariff Act of 1930
			 (19 U.S.C. 1675b) after such date;</text>
									</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF257E4808D884FDE991A9CCE3873A8DB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reviews initiated under section 751 of the
			 Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675)—</text>
									<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id67AC1A80FA01442990961544540A253F"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by the administering authority or the
			 International Trade Commission on their own initiative after such date;
			 or</text>
									</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90B29403430847AAB0F53094AF4EB925"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">pursuant to a request filed after such
			 date; and</text>
									</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D25095EAADD4BB4948D3A51DF83318D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">all proceedings conducted under section 129
			 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3538) commenced after such
			 date.</text>
								</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDae6ad611e3c64204a2840b85e79d6f5b"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effect on prior statutory changes</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id466C18B33DCD43E5841326FC1139CA5B"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (2)(A) shall not apply to
			 modifications to statutes of the United States made in response to adverse
			 findings.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA0053B66F157494EA821E12C4F3353DA"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarification of United States
			 rights</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a statute of the
			 United States has been modified in response to an adverse finding, the United
			 States shall obtain clarification of the rights and obligations of the United
			 States affected by the adverse finding pursuant to subsection (a).</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle></title><title commented="no" id="ID3AC6A879BFD34EB3A0BF7C9F150DE959" level-type="subsequent"><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Strengthening antidumping and
			 countervailing duty laws</header>
			<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H054696F703A9499A80FB003BB964E95B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prevention of circumvention</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 781(c) of the
			 <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name> (19 U.S.C.
			 1677j(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
				<quoted-block act-name="Tariff" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A8C729DDC684BA1A4AFEA9F2846FB9F" style="OLC">
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4F774CDFA85E4DCF8CEE60C5874F7265"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special rule</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The administering authority may exclude
				altered merchandise from the class or kind of merchandise subject to an
				investigation and order or finding described in paragraph (1), if such
				exclusion is not inconsistent with the affirmative determination of the
				Commission on which the order or finding is
				based.</text>
					</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
			</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1d5ae9a95b2f4aa089c95888c9e0bb56" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Export price and constructed export
			 price</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 772(c)(2)(A) of
			 the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677a(c)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting
			 <quote>(including antidumping and countervailing duties imposed under this
			 title)</quote> after <quote>duties</quote>.</text>
			</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID35A8470BAAB349BCA43C0ED808AA5BE2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nonmarket economy methodology</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 773(c)(4) of the
			 <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name> (19 U.S.C.
			 1677b(c)(4)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
				<quoted-block act-name="Tariff Act of 1930" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCB9681960DB64C1D8803320597227862" style="OLC">
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA2AAA8E464D44093A77BE78CCAAC1BFE"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Valuation of factors of production</header>
						<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDC65B027B35F4D47BFAB90A0973DDD28"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The administering authority, in valuing
				factors of production under paragraph (1), shall utilize, to the extent
				possible, the prices or costs of factors of production in one or more market
				economy countries that are—</text>
							<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDEE10AD043DA144ACA477B5C364545A55"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at a level of economic development
				comparable to that of the nonmarket economy country; and</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8CFF38C832EF41C3825AE76814FEEDE5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">significant producers of comparable
				merchandise.</text>
							</clause><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="subparagraph">In this paragraph, the term
				<quote>surrogate</quote> refers to the values, calculations, and market economy
				countries used under this subparagraph.</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC831B782DDEB40E8AC1909E7E6B58025"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Valuing materials used in
				production</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining the
				value of materials used in production under subparagraph (A), the following
				applies:</text>
							<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDD43ADC1A02841409BA7A7308C270A32"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The administering authority may use the
				value of inputs that are purchased from market economy suppliers and are not
				suspected of being dumped or subsidized, only for the quantity of such
				purchases.</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF0F8C000A1AB443C86671572448B9275"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All materials purchased or otherwise
				obtained from nonmarket economy countries shall be valued using surrogate
				values under subparagraph (A).</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD04A25E2236143BFA1DA2FD839B9CE94"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A purchased material shall be viewed as
				suspected of being subsidized if there are any affirmative findings by the
				United States or another WTO member of export subsidy programs in the supplying
				country.</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5793EE73B54C4D24B4DE7A7B21CEA76F"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A purchased material shall be viewed as
				suspected of being dumped if there are any affirmative findings by the United
				States or other WTO member of dumping in the general category of merchandise,
				or if information supplied by the petitioner or otherwise of record suggests
				significant underpricing to the purchaser in the nonmarket economy
				country.</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID744CB0E65D0E4983AD01AFAA7BCE434B"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Surrogate values for materials from a
				market economy country shall be disregarded as not reflective of prices in that
				surrogate market only if prices in that market are viewed as aberrational, such
				as a case in which prices undersell or exceed any reported price in that
				surrogate market by a large amount.</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0F49FDA5BAA348EFA0699B297A642019"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be a presumption that the
				administering authority will include all market prices from a surrogate market.
				Prices that are high or low shall be excluded only when it is demonstrated that
				the prices are not reflective of prices in the surrogate country for the
				relevant category of merchandise.</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID314D11C034AA4CD4AC13639EDA63B009"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If amounts pertaining to the cost of
				production of imports into a surrogate country from market economy suppliers
				are used for valuing the materials used, such amounts shall be valued on the
				basis of CIF (cost, insurance, and freight), plus duties paid, to provide a
				proxy for prices in the surrogate country competing with locally produced
				goods. Such values shall not be reduced by the import duties.</text>
							</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF4764B03F0A84E7DB31397009B695A22"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Valuing labor</header>
							<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID32C66B695C1445518BE5A0A74BEC199A"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The administering authority may use an
				average of wage rates for market economies, but shall ensure that labor rates
				used fully reflect all labor costs, including benefits, health care, and
				pension costs.</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID00EE6139A9C24DF7A48486D62E227F0E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Labor shall be the total labor employed by
				a nonmarket economy country producer or used by a nonmarket economy country
				producer in the overall business, with allocations to other merchandise
				produced or sold by that producer that is not subject merchandise.</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID236DCB3BC1B64AE28FCFA622BE6730C3"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Labor shall reflect the average labor for
				all other producers in the nonmarket economy country that are producing the
				particular merchandise subject to investigation or review, and shall not be
				limited to operations used for export.</text>
							</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2419F5AA3DD94F9FA43C59F540381106"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Valuing factory overhead, general selling
				and administrative expenses, and profit</header>
							<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDD55D832355E43178892D782F88628F6"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The administering authority shall use the
				best information available with respect to likely values of factory overhead,
				general selling and administrative expenses, and profit from a surrogate
				country. If the values determined under subparagraphs (B) and (C) for materials
				used and labor consumed result in amounts that are demonstrably larger or
				smaller than the amounts used in determining surrogate ratios from financial or
				other reports from a surrogate country, adjustments shall be made to the ratios
				to reflect fully the level of such costs and profits in the surrogate country
				on a per item produced basis.</text>
							</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID881467F8CEA94A2B86A6AE7C0D38925E"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Ratios
				defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this
				subparagraph, the term <term>ratios</term> means—</text>
								<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA754339C804B4E448BA76BE43E8722B8"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the ratio of factory overhead to labor,
				materials, and energy;</text>
								</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID057F1FD2D4064D3F8C025CAD56A0CDC5"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the ratio of general selling and
				administrative costs to factory overhead, labor, materials, and energy;
				and</text>
								</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID85ED670A28764F59B7E27F12CB0FD91C"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the ratio of profit to general selling and
				administrative costs, factory overhead, labor, materials, and energy.</text>
								</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID06100D81397447E589C3AC9A2F255DE0"><enum>(E)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of confidential information from a
				foreign producer in a surrogate country</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The administering authority shall generally
				use publicly available information to value factors of production, except that,
				in a case in which any foreign producer in the surrogate country that is
				willing to provide information to the administering authority on factors of
				production to produce the same class of merchandise and such information is
				subject to verification, the administering authority shall accept and use such
				information. The relationship of the foreign producer providing the information
				to a party to the proceeding shall not be a basis for
				disqualification.</text>
						</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
			</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H629CAEF69DC444E2AD002F99922CBEB9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determinations on the basis of facts
			 available</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 776(a)(2)(B)
			 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677e(a)(2)(B)) is amended to read as
			 follows:</text>
				<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H23D8EDAFF4844EA9A4D407BAE53D0CB" style="OLC">
					<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB7B76C50B9A496995D100A74F1CA8F6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fails to provide such information by the
				deadline for submission of the information or in the form and manner required,
				and in conformity with prior administering authority determinations in the
				proceeding and final judicial decisions in the proceeding, subject to
				subsections (c)(1) and (e) of section
				782,</text>
					</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
			</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD9252DCE736641A39927B1C3AB017546" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarification of determination of material
			 injury</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 771(7) of the
			 Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677(7)) is amended by adding at the end the
			 following new subparagraph:</text>
				<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1A5842844ED44D3FB133E37CCD510787" style="OLC">
					<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0a4d1078582e47c2b0db5e9d3680d029"><enum>(J)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarification of determination of material
				injury</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining if
				there is material injury, or threat of material injury, by reason of imports of
				the subject merchandise, the Commission shall make the Commission's
				determination without regard to—</text>
						<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0bbc5972de484ed78ae66b31cf78728a"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether other imports are likely to replace
				subject merchandise, or</text>
						</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID660426265ad3442a9f1abd88c945a3ea"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the effect of a potential order on the
				domestic
				industry.</text>
						</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
			</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3934AFD7BBCC41029B8368D0657B69F1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Revocation of nonmarket economy country
			 status</header>
				<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H642A32A6203B48A5B8827FE4566163DC"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amendment of definition of <quote>nonmarket
			 economy country</quote></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 771(18)(C)(i) of the Tariff Act of
			 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677(18)(C)(i)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8B99530E32C94C3281B0467A40581108" style="OLC">
						<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id92CB15712896449AA1B64C4C73195DB6"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any determination that a foreign country is
				a nonmarket economy country shall remain in effect until—</text>
							<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8079830DDAF94E08BDEBBB636D288215"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the administering authority makes a final
				determination to revoke the determination under subparagraph (A); and</text>
							</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7A4DAAC1D74A4FCCB9F65621AD5A0C21"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a joint resolution is enacted into law
				pursuant to section 206 of the Strengthening America's Trade Laws
				Act.</text>
							</subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDD611D9C84F7463783392C67027F5FF2"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notification by President; joint
			 resolution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whenever the
			 administering authority makes a final determination under section
			 771(18)(C)(i)(I) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677(18)(C)(i)(I)) to
			 revoke the determination that a foreign country is a nonmarket economy
			 country—</text>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA3BBA86057AB425292AE1305B40847E9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the President shall notify the Committee on
			 Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
			 Representatives of that determination not later than 10 days after the
			 publication of the administering authority's final determination in the Federal
			 Register;</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA12240C3AD334E95AB46440E5C0B338F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the President shall transmit to the
			 Congress a request that a joint resolution be introduced pursuant to this
			 section; and</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFD6E29C356664ADDAA038D04D06F4B12"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a joint resolution shall be introduced in
			 the Congress pursuant to this section.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7BB406F043884FB4A70669A0993B21D9"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term
			 <term>joint resolution</term> means only a joint resolution of the 2 Houses of
			 the Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows:
			 <quote>That the Congress approves the change of nonmarket economy status with
			 respect to the products of _____ transmitted by the President to the Congress
			 on _____.</quote>, the first blank space being filled in with the name of the
			 country with respect to which a determination has been made under section
			 771(18)(C)(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677(18)(C)(i)), and the
			 second blank space being filled with the date on which the President notified
			 the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of
			 the House of Representatives under subsection (b)(1).</text>
				</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7DD579C0F2814216B1BF13FAEDD1158"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Introduction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A joint resolution shall be introduced (by
			 request) in the House by the majority leader of the House, for himself, or by
			 Members of the House designated by the majority leader of the House, and shall
			 be introduced (by request) in the Senate by the majority leader of the Senate,
			 for himself, or by Members of the Senate designated by the majority leader of
			 the Senate.</text>
				</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H12539A101CE04DC8BA673DA14D3BE86F"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amendments prohibited</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No amendment to a joint resolution shall be
			 in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, and no motion to
			 suspend the application of this subsection shall be in order in either House,
			 nor shall it be in order in either House for the presiding officer to entertain
			 a request to suspend the application of this subsection by unanimous
			 consent.</text>
				</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1D01C2D80DD042768572F18425E69593"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Period for committee and floor
			 consideration</header>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFE0F698CF10A4B33A85E98FD77C040E6"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the committee or committees of either
			 House to which a joint resolution has been referred have not reported the joint
			 resolution at the close of the 45th day after its introduction, such committee
			 or committees shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of
			 the joint resolution and it shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. A vote
			 on final passage of the joint resolution shall be taken in each House on or
			 before the close of the 15th day after the joint resolution is reported by the
			 committee or committees of that House to which it was referred, or after such
			 committee or committees have been discharged from further consideration of the
			 joint resolution. If, prior to the passage by one House of a joint resolution
			 of that House, that House receives the same joint resolution from the other
			 House, then—</text>
						<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF219E293BC4F4558BA00B747A68C1621"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the procedure in that House shall be the
			 same as if no joint resolution had been received from the other House,
			 but</text>
						</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6F0DFD3B366B42C7BE47E44C006285F8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the vote on final passage shall be on the
			 joint resolution of the other House.</text>
						</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H554EB983CB4547A78FA87E73069EA2EC"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Computation of days</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of paragraph (1), in computing
			 a number of days in either House, there shall be excluded any day on which that
			 House is not in session.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBF629AE0F6A346A3B2D81226D812B08"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Floor consideration in the House</header>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1247D0B357844AB1A7027C564D2E519F"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motion privileged</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A motion in the House of Representatives to
			 proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution shall be highly privileged
			 and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall
			 it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to
			 or disagreed to.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB566FB0F1EAD495BA1A5B1B000E9259C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Debate
			 limited</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Debate in the House
			 of Representatives on a joint resolution shall be limited to not more than 20
			 hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing
			 the joint resolution. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable.
			 It shall not be in order to move to recommit a joint resolution or to move to
			 reconsider the vote by which a joint resolution is agreed to or disagreed
			 to.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF1D3B7BB5D7B4FF49D2B8188DDB46C2"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motions to postpone</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motions to postpone, made in the House of
			 Representatives with respect to the consideration of a joint resolution, and
			 motions to proceed to the consideration of other business, shall be decided
			 without debate.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA0A5B4F53A846CBA1B3BC00D679B8E9"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appeals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All appeals from the decisions of the Chair
			 relating to the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the
			 procedure relating to a joint resolution shall be decided without
			 debate.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0CD9068A6E3F43A690878D9723956DAF"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other rules</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except to the extent specifically provided
			 in the preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of a joint
			 resolution shall be governed by the Rules of the House of Representatives
			 applicable to other bills and resolutions in similar circumstances.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H193C574234AE4AB99E0619C598675C72"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Floor consideration in the Senate</header>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H20A54996016B4406AB675E5BD58B038C"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motion privileged</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A motion in the Senate to proceed to the
			 consideration of a joint resolution shall be privileged and not debatable. An
			 amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move
			 to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0BFF2A11651543EE97127EC359907600"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Debate
			 limited</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Debate in the Senate
			 on a joint resolution, and all debatable motions and appeals in connection
			 therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 hours. The time shall be
			 equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the
			 minority leader or their designees.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0CEB89F41AC34A8E88C8C3DB9BB6FC75"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Control of debate</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Debate in the Senate on any debatable
			 motion or appeal in connection with a joint resolution shall be limited to not
			 more than 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover
			 and the manager of the joint resolution, except that in the event the manager
			 of the joint resolution is in favor of any such motion or appeal, the time in
			 opposition thereto shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee.
			 Such leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their control on the
			 passage of a joint resolution, allot additional time to any Senator during the
			 consideration of any debatable motion or appeal.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2FCAA8B7854E47E18366194EB0B8C14B"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other motions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A motion in the Senate to further limit
			 debate is not debatable. A motion to recommit a joint resolution is not in
			 order.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2840D7312ECF420C00DC57249D073029"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rules of House of Representatives and
			 Senate</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsections (c)
			 through (h) are enacted by the Congress—</text>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H436CD7EDFC264A2DBF3669EEACBE8EAD"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">as an exercise of the rulemaking power of
			 the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such
			 subsections (c) through (h) are deemed a part of the rules of each House,
			 respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed
			 in that House in the case of joint resolutions described in subsection (c), and
			 subsections (c) through (h) supersede other rules only to the extent that they
			 are inconsistent therewith; and</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8E7DC728CD5C49B5B48BA6A3913FF3A8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with full recognition of the constitutional
			 right of either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure
			 of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the
			 case of any other rule of that House.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection></section></title><title commented="no" id="ID39FB1D17BF474FC4B352E79EA6B8841A" level-type="subsequent"><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Expansion of applicability of
			 countervailing duties</header>
			<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDD6C3B812A0544F285AE4DDD66E09272" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application of countervailing duties to
			 nonmarket economies and strengthening application of the law</header>
				<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6CBD0448BB504886B2168E2A4F279A22"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 701(a)(1) of the
			 <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name> (19 U.S.C.
			 1671(a)(1)) is amended by inserting <quote>(including a nonmarket economy
			 country)</quote> after <quote>country</quote> each place it appears.</text>
				</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5AD191C3AC0A4D1C899F35CA6D077485"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of countervailable
			 subsidy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 771(5)(E) of
			 the <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name> (19 U.S.C.
			 1677(5)(E)) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>For purposes
			 of clauses (i) through (iv), if there is a reasonable indication that
			 government intervention has distorted prices or other economic indicators in
			 the country that is subject to the investigation or review, or if data
			 regarding such prices or economic indicators are otherwise unavailable, then
			 the administering authority shall measure the benefit conferred to the
			 recipient by reference to data regarding relevant prices or other economic
			 indicators from a country other than the country that is subject to the
			 investigation or review. If there is a reasonable indication that prices or
			 other economic indicators within a political subdivision, dependent territory,
			 or possession of a foreign country are distorted, or data are not available,
			 then the administering authority shall measure the benefit conferred to the
			 recipient in that political subdivision, dependent territory, or possession by
			 reference to data from the most comparable area or region in which relevant
			 prices or other economic indicators are not distorted, regardless of whether
			 such area or region is in the same country.</quote>.</text>
				</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID852CD8A3067B4EFB9B5B508387E5C680"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
			 Date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
			 subsections (a) and (b) apply to petitions filed under section 702 of the
			 <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name> (19 U.S.C. 1671a)
			 on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
				</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4C669819F934438F839911432551A316"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Antidumping Provisions not
			 Affected</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made
			 by subsections (a) and (b) shall not affect the status of a country as a
			 nonmarket economy country for the purposes of any matter relating to
			 antidumping duties under subtitle B of title VII of the
			 <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name> (19 U.S.C. 1673 et
			 seq.).</text>
				</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID22F6A9F08B8C4EB98BD10CAF66A7567C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Treatment of exchange-rate manipulation as
			 countervailable subsidy under title <enum-in-header>VII</enum-in-header> of the
			 <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name></header>
				<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF7525E6378ED4F689D643CEFAD39CA4A"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amendments to Definition of Countervailable
			 Subsidy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 771(5)(D) of
			 the <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name> (19 U.S.C.
			 1677(5)(D)) is amended—</text>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID704E90922A8541B69539FD3CAAD5A2EE"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>The term</quote> and
			 inserting <quote>(i) The term</quote>;</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID83B857B5E8E142B9A8AEB656B3B955B0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating clauses (i) through (iv)
			 as subclauses (I) through (IV), respectively; and</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD9AD62A7B74D4788A711A2784DD85A2F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID18548F7DF1944EFEABF96652C4F9FD04" style="OLC">
							<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2F31276A33D445EA9EBC9F35B95A5DAC" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>provides a financial
				contribution</term> includes engaging in exchange-rate manipulation (as defined
				in paragraph
				(5C)).</text>
							</clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC8A8F2BB694A451199232BFC2C0DB667"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of Exchange-Rate
			 Manipulation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 771 of
			 the <act-name parsable-cite="TA30">Tariff Act of 1930</act-name> (19 U.S.C.
			 1677) is amended by inserting after paragraph (5B) the following new
			 paragraph:</text>
					<quoted-block act-name="Tariff Act of 1930" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC278759A5B6841F4AAD82D5B1DE5B5C9" style="OLC">
						<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID808DB76BDDFD43378ABF03CC550E2E17"><enum>(5C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of exchange-rate
				manipulation</header>
							<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7CF629480FCA4D71AACFD3D83F652FA9"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of paragraphs (5) and (5A),
				the term <term>exchange-rate manipulation</term> means protracted large-scale
				intervention by a country to undervalue the country's currency in the exchange
				market that prevents effective balance-of-payments adjustment or that gains an
				unfair competitive advantage over any other country.</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID36E48159D83049EF839E66D1AD8B7E01"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Factors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining whether exchange-rate
				manipulation is occurring and a benefit thereby conferred, the administering
				authority in each case—</text>
								<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6F1E9DB63EE0488E8B2F1E635C683021"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall consider the exporting
				country’s—</text>
									<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID83844C791C1742BC919A7E785F7298CE"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">bilateral balance-of-trade surplus or
				deficit with the United States;</text>
									</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6D971E02E6EB4571AACD995223F7C3B3"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">balance-of-trade surplus or deficit with
				its other trading partners individually and in the aggregate;</text>
									</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8FB712E9B8794FDA9236516560B7CC8A"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">foreign direct investment in its
				territory;</text>
									</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD6E28F4EB43E403FB1282B7569D724FA"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">currency-specific and aggregate amounts of
				foreign currency reserves; and</text>
									</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6AE1CE10A790446284B413937DFC30D6"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">mechanisms employed to maintain its
				currency at a fixed exchange rate relative to another currency and,
				particularly, the nature, duration, monetary expenditures, and potential
				monetary expenditures of those mechanisms;</text>
									</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA3373E849EA94863AF9C7EAD5FEA23BE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may consider such other economic factors as
				are relevant; and</text>
								</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA1D7707B303447D48D7A17FF63737E0A"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall measure the trade surpluses or
				deficits described in subclauses (I) and (II) of clause (i) with reference to
				the trade data reported by the United States and the other trading partners of
				the exporting country, unless such trade data are not available or are
				demonstrably inaccurate, in which case the exporting country’s trade data may
				be relied upon if shown to be sufficiently accurate and trustworthy.</text>
								</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7547BBF9979F42018CBA5247502B588C"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Type of economy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A country found to be engaged in
				exchange-rate manipulation may have—</text>
								<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87AB395D7BD14A169885E13CE4FC0FC8"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a market economy;</text>
								</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7828FA6F30A84A9A97C8D3C405470CEB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a nonmarket economy; or</text>
								</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD89FA3E9B3ED4EECB07F9F9E2953FFB8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a combination
				thereof.</text>
								</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9DEF94AA10B149A6A7007DD2F06E3C88" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Affirmation of negotiating objective on
			 border taxes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Congress
			 reaffirms the negotiating objective relating to border taxes set forth in
			 section 2102(b)(15) of the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002 (19
			 U.S.C. 3802(b)(15)).</text>
			</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD5365192CFA8440085AE375EB516B669" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Presidential certification; application of
			 countervailing duty law</header>
				<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCA6625D2EFE24F778DB54C70A47FDA47"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Certification by the President</header>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id279FDA2586A44A1D9C97007267D29909"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The President shall certify to the Congress
			 by January 1, 2009 that, under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing
			 Measures or subsequent agreement of the World Trade Organization, the full or
			 partial exemption, remission, or deferral specifically related to exports of
			 direct taxes is treated in the same manner as the full or partial exemption,
			 remission, or deferral specifically related to exports of indirect
			 taxes.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBA8C77F7F2934A2FBF5936037D90510B"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effect of failure to certify</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the President does not make the
			 certification to Congress required by paragraph (1) by January 1, 2009, the
			 Secretary of Commerce, in any investigation conducted under subtitle A of title
			 VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) to determine whether a
			 countervailable subsidy is being provided with respect to a product of a
			 country that provides the full or partial exemption, remission, or deferral
			 specifically related to exports of indirect taxes on products exported from
			 that country, shall treat as a countervailable subsidy the full or partial
			 exemption, remission, or deferral specifically related to exports of indirect
			 taxes paid on that product.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA456E5FA02D64E238D0062B845AE643E"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2A0D10E00564435DAFE483C87F9F53DC"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agreement on subsidies and countervailing
			 measures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
			 <quote>Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures</quote> means the
			 agreement referred to in section 101(d)(12) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act
			 (19 U.S.C. 3511(d)(12)).</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1F75C961EBDB4A1FB49E26CD76D2B230"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Direct taxes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>direct taxes</quote> means
			 taxes on wages, profits, interest, rents, royalties, and all other forms of
			 income, and taxes on the ownership of real property.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6C2FA4BE5FBB46699B6E25792DC581AB"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Import
			 charges</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
			 <quote>import charges</quote> means tariffs, duties, and other fiscal charges
			 that are levied on imports.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF434F2CBD984A28A8D084C3AFCE4720"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indirect
			 taxes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
			 <quote>indirect taxes</quote> means sales, excise, turnover, value added,
			 franchise, stamp, transfer, inventory, and equipment taxes, border taxes, and
			 all taxes other than direct taxes and import charges.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H654B16909B55490B91C1CB9BC221FC9C"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Full or partial exemption, remission, or
			 deferral specifically related to exports of direct taxes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>full or partial exemption,
			 remission, or deferral specifically related to exports of direct taxes</quote>
			 means direct taxes that are paid to the United States Government by a business
			 concern and are fully or partially exempted, remitted, or deferred by the
			 Government by reason of the export by that business concern of its products
			 from the United States.</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB64E3A051269464BA2BE425C17254CCD"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Full or partial exemption, remission, or
			 deferral specifically related to exports of indirect taxes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>full or partial exemption,
			 remission, or deferral specifically related to exports of indirect
			 taxes</quote> means indirect taxes that are paid to the government of a country
			 by a business concern and are fully or partially exempted, remitted, or
			 deferred by that government by reason of the export by that business concern of
			 its products from that country.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF38414480F5F447D81C59100F95C6EEE"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective period</header>
					<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8E7A18250E914350A3F6CE2324BD0606"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) shall cease to be effective
			 on the date on which the President makes a certification described in
			 subsection (a).</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1ADDA8442294468E972EBFA6E2BAA4C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Termination of countervailing duty
			 orders</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any countervailing
			 duty order that is issued pursuant to an investigation conducted under
			 subsection (a) and is still in effect on the date described in paragraph (1)
			 shall terminate on such date.</text>
					</paragraph></subsection></section></title><title commented="no" id="IDE7C268FA39AF4CF885BF2AA5FBF78548" level-type="subsequent"><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on presidential discretion in
			 addressing market disruption</header>
			<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0F04F5C2B060400288317F238B92FB6A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Action to address market
			 disruption</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 421 of the
			 <act-name parsable-cite="TA74">Trade Act of 1974</act-name> (19 U.S.C. 2451) is
			 amended—</text>
				<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0935EFA55395479AA43AE763DACEFD4F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>to
			 the extent and for such period</quote> and all that follows to the end period
			 and inserting <quote>as recommended by the International Trade
			 Commission</quote>;</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB90DB220808A4950AC85C6294069564D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e), by striking
			 <quote>agreed upon by either group</quote> and all that follows to the end
			 period and inserting <quote>shall be considered an affirmative
			 determination</quote>;</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC4CF286A674841D5A570CF0C0BE75B98"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f)—</text>
					<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID360EC5B41EB24A8DA45A3A3DA277BA79"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">on proposed remedies</header-in-text></quote> in
			 the heading and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">for relief</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
					</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID545ABE5C48624ABBA53EFCB91E13B604"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>the Commission shall
			 propose</quote> and inserting <quote>the Commission shall recommend</quote>;
			 and</text>
					</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD712F9D6CABE4AC791F9B115D557BD65"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>proposed action</quote>
			 and inserting <quote>recommended action</quote>;</text>
					</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0A65322FBF6141D3953815B05712A4A9"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (h);</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC0E42775029341F386916CC13D37A9D8"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (i)—</text>
					<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD40BF10C4C604D0AAA97DD72B768BBB7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the flush sentence at the end of
			 paragraph (1), by striking <quote>agreed upon by either group</quote> and all
			 that follows to the end period and inserting <quote>shall be deemed an
			 affirmative determination</quote>; and</text>
					</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA99DCD0B4DE543DF9E8F269D227A902C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraphs (3) and (4);</text>
					</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID61B74170EDFB4F9FBEFE704E8A8B1D41"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsections (j) and (k);</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6DB34FC8075745228C3AAE4C4CC05152"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending paragraph (1) of subsection
			 (<italic>l</italic>) to read as follows: <quote>(1) The President’s
			 implementation of the International Trade Commission remedy shall be published
			 in the Federal Register.</quote>;</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3838D496B4094560A2346EEDF931062D"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending subsection (m) to read as
			 follows:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7226D9B52ACB477E98D5DC178E095CE7" style="OLC">
						<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA1BAFB72F0B74878AC955EAB1CE1FE6A"><enum>(m)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date of relief</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Import relief under this section shall take
				effect on the date the International Trade Commission’s recommendation is
				published in the Federal Register, but not later than 15 days after the date of
				the Commission’s vote recommending the
				relief.</text>
						</subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4861330781A94381A70A7531F524A2C1"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending subsection (n) to read as
			 follows:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0A81C979BFF346F9A6467D442B5E3675" style="OLC">
						<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3AAEA808DF474E85A33F67DC46624126"><enum>(n)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modification of Relief</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any import relief that includes an increase
				in duty or the imposition of import restrictions shall be for a period not to
				exceed 3 years.</text>
						</subsection><after-quoted-block>;
				and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID33499EC7CF74449EA6960CEA4CE121B9"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking subsection (o).</text>
				</paragraph></section></title><title commented="no" id="id2904E09B8A7949369E422A7D43C0CB9F" level-type="subsequent"><enum>V</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Miscellaneous</header>
			<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC15206FB0C2C4BF0B7A45607AF681D23" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>501.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application to Canada and
			 Mexico</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Pursuant to article
			 1902 of the North American Free Trade Agreement and section 408 of the North
			 American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 3438), this Act and
			 the amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to goods from Canada
			 and Mexico.</text>
			</section></title></legis-body>
</bill>
