[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1779 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1779

 To require the United States Trade Representative to notify the World 
Trade Organization if any member of the World Trade Organization fails 
during 2 consecutive years to disclose subsidies under the Agreement on 
     Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 2, 2011

  Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Schumer, Mr. 
  Levin, and Ms. Snowe) introduced the following bill; which was read 
             twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the United States Trade Representative to notify the World 
Trade Organization if any member of the World Trade Organization fails 
during 2 consecutive years to disclose subsidies under the Agreement on 
     Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. MANDATORY DISCLOSURE BY THE UNITED STATES IF MEMBERS OF THE 
              WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION FAIL TO DISCLOSE SUBSIDIES UNDER 
              THE AGREEMENT ON SUBSIDIES AND COUNTERVAILING MEASURES.

    (a) In General.--The United States Trade Representative shall--
            (1) review each notification of subsidies submitted under 
        Article 25 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing 
        Measures by a member of the World Trade Organization with which 
        the United States maintains a material and persistent trade 
        deficit;
            (2) identify any such member that, for 2 consecutive 
        years--
                    (A) fails to submit such a notification; or
                    (B) omits information or includes inaccurate 
                information in such a notification that is material 
                with respect to the totality of the subsidies of the 
                member; and
            (3) notify the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing 
        Measures under Article 25 of the Agreement on Subsidies and 
        Countervailing Measures of the subsidies of a member identified 
        under paragraph (2) not later than 180 days after--
                    (A) in the case of a member identified under 
                paragraph (2)(A), the date on which the second 
                notification not submitted by the member was required 
                to be submitted; or
                    (B) in the case of a member identified under 
                paragraph (2)(B), the date of the submission of the 
                second notification in which the information was 
                omitted or the inaccurate information was included, as 
                the case may be.
    (b) Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Defined.--
The term ``Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures'' means 
the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures referred to in 
section 101(d)(12) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 
3511(d)(12)).
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