[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2638 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2638

To require the Secretary of State to seek to negotiate the elimination 
  of all foreign subsidies for international postal shipments to the 
                 United States, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2018

  Mr. Cassidy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of State to seek to negotiate the elimination 
  of all foreign subsidies for international postal shipments to the 
                 United States, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ending Needless Delivery Subsidies 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.

    (a) Elimination of All Foreign Subsidies for International Postal 
Shipments.--Not later than January 1, 2021, the Secretary of State 
shall seek to negotiate before the Universal Postal Union (in this 
section referred to as the ``UPU'') the elimination of all foreign 
subsidies for international postal shipments to the United States.
    (b) Future Agreements.--The Secretary may not conclude any 
international agreement relating to postal shipments after the date of 
the enactment of this Act unless the postal rates granted to United 
States exporters under the agreement are similar to the postal rates 
granted to exporters in other countries that are parties to the 
agreement.
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