    [House Document 110-97]
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    AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND DENMARK ON SOCIAL
                                    SECURITY

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                                 COMMUNICATION

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                         THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES

                                  transmitting

    AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND DENMARK ON SOCIAL
    SECURITY, WITH A PRINCIPAL AGREEMENT AND AN ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENT,
       BOTH SIGNED AT COPENHAGEN ON JUNE 13, 2007, PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C.
                                   433(e)(1)

    March 3, 2008.--Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered
                                 to be printed
    To the Congress of the United States:
        Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act,
    as amended by the Social Security Amendments of 1977 (Public
    Law 95-216, 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1)), I transmit herewith the
    Agreement Between the United States of America and the Kingdom
    of Denmark on Social Security, which consists of two separate
    instruments: a principal agreement and an administrative
    arrangement. The agreement was signed at Copenhagen on June 13,
    2007.
        The United States-Denmark Agreement is similar in objective
    to the social security agreements already in force with
    Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Finland, France,
    Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the
    Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and
    the United Kingdom. Such bilateral agreements provide for
    limited coordination between the United States and foreign
    social security systems to eliminate dual social security
    coverage and taxation, and to help prevent the loss of benefit
    protection that can occur when workers divide their careers
    between two countries. The United States-Denmark Agreement
    contains all provisions mandated by section 233 and other
    provisions that I deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of
    section 233, pursuant to section 233(c)(4).
        I also transmit for the information of the Congress a
    report prepared by the Social Security Administration
    explaining the key points of the Agreement, along with a
    paragraph-by-paragraph explanation of the provisions of the
    principal agreement and the related administrative arrangement.
    Attached to this report is the report required by section
    233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act, which describes the
    effect of the Agreement on income and expenditures of the U.S.
    Social Security program and the number of individuals affected by the
    Agreement.
        I commend to the Congress the United States-Denmark Social
    Security Agreement and related documents.

                                                        George W. Bush.
        The White House, February 28, 2008.