[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1929]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            THE MAINTAIN UNITED STATES TRADE LAW RESOLUTION

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                        HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 22, 1999

  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, today, I, along with over 100 of my 
colleagues, introduced the Maintain United States Trade (MUST) Law 
Resolution. This resolution will send a clear message to our trading 
partners that the President and the Congress will maintain our 
antidumping and countervailing duty laws. This measure will put the 
House on record as opposing the renegotiation of these critical trade 
laws at the upcoming Seattle round of the World Trade Organization. 
These laws are the cornerstone of a free and fair open market policy, 
and represent one of the few means of redress for American producers 
and workers.
  According to the U.S. International Trade Association, as of March 1, 
1999, over 290 products from 59 different countries were under 
antidumping and countervailing duty orders. Following my statement are 
a list of over 120 of these products. Throughout the steel crisis, 
antidumping and countervailing duty laws have represented one of the 
few means of relief for American steel workers. These laws are far 
reaching and affect countless products throughout the United States. It 
is imperative that the administration uphold these important trade laws 
at the WTO Seattle Round.
  The World Trade Organization's Ministerial Conference, to be held in 
Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999, will launch a new round 
of trade negotiations. These talks will focus on reshaping WTO rules 
regarding agriculture, services, and intellectual property. However, 
many foreign countries are seeking to expand the agenda in order to 
debate the WTO's antidumping and countervailing duty laws. The MUST Law 
Resolution will allow the Administration to attend the Seattle 
negotiations with a unified statement from the Congress declaring that 
the United States must not agree to reopen negotiations on any 
antidumping and countervailing duty laws.
  The MUST Law Resolution will call upon the President to not 
participate in any international negotiation in which antidumping and 
antisubsidy rules are part of the negotiation agenda, refrain from 
submitting for congressional approval agreements that require changes 
to the current antidumping and countervailing duty laws and enforcement 
policies of the United States, and enforce the antidumping and 
countervailing duty laws vigorously in all pending and future cases.
  We, as elected members of Congress, have the obligation to protect 
American producers and workers from unfair foreign trade practices. 
Consequently, I urge my colleagues to cosponsor and support this 
resolution to protect free and fair trade.

                         agricultural products

       Canned Pineapple Fruit, In Shell Pistachios, Fresh 
     Kiwifruit, Fresh, Chilled and Frozen Pork, Fresh Cut Flowers, 
     Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice, Red Raspberries, Preserved 
     Mushrooms, Live Swine, Lamb Meat, Sugar, Pasta, Codfish, 
     Honey, Garlic, Rice, Wool, Agricultural Tillage Tools, 
     Freshwater Crawfish Tailmeat, Fresh and Chilled Atlantic 
     Salmon, Fresh Atlantic Groundfish.


                          industrial products

       Dry-cleaning Machinery, Carbon Steel Wire Rod, Barbed Wire 
     and Barbless Wire Strand, Line and Pressure Pipe, Oil Country 
     Tubular Goods, Iron Construction Castings, Malleable Cast 
     Iron Pipe Fittings, Brass Sheet and Strip, Industrial 
     Nitrocellulose, Stainless Wire Rod, New Steel Rails, Tapered 
     Roller Bearings, Heavy Forged Hand Tools, Chrome-plated Lug 
     Nuts, Tungsten Ore Concentrates, Compact Ductile Iron 
     Waterworks Fittings, Helical Spring Lock Washers, Brake 
     Rotors, Nitrile Rubber, Mechanical Transfer Presses, Drafting 
     Machines and Parts Thereof, Gray Portland Cement and Cement 
     Clinker, Gas Turbon Compressors, Extruded Rubber Thread, Low 
     Fuming Brazing Copper Wire & Rod, Industrial Nitrocellulose, 
     Industrial Phosphoric Acid, Professional Electric Cutting/
     sanding/grinding Tools, Collated Roofing Nails, 
     Antifriction Bearings, Calcium Aluminate Cement & Cement 
     Clinker, Large Newspaper Presses & Components, Industrial 
     Belts, Industrial Phosphoric Acid, Pressure Sensitive 
     Plastic Tape, Brass Fire Protection Products, Internal 
     Combustion Industrial Forklift Trucks.


                        Manufacturing Materials

       Silicon Metal, Ferrosilicon, Silocomanganese, Elemental 
     Sulphur, Pure and Alloy Magnesium, Potassium Permanganate, 
     Chloropicrin, Barium Chloride, Manganese Metal, Sodium 
     Thiosulfate, Sulfanilic Acid, Sebacic Acid, Furfuryl Alcohol, 
     Glycine, Polyvinyl Alcohol, Sorbitol, Anhydrous Sodium 
     Metasilicate, Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin, Roller 
     Chain Other than Bicycle, Methione, Synthetic, Melamine in 
     Crystal Form, Calcium Hypochlorite, Benzyle P-
     hydrosybenzoate, Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Film, 
     Aramid Fiber of PPD-T, Uranium, Titanium Sponge, 
     Ferrovanadium and Nitrided Vanadium, Solid Urea, Animal Glue, 
     Inedible Gelatin, Electrolyte Manganese Dioxide, Persulfates.


                     COMMERCIAL AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS

       Melamine Institutional Dinnerware, Porcelain-on-steel 
     Cooking Ware, Top-of-the-stove Stainless Steel Cooking Ware, 
     Aspirin, Leather, Spun Acrylic Yarn, Paper Clips, Pencils, 
     Cased, Textiles, Castor Oil Products, Cotton Shop Towels, 
     Petroleum Wax Candles, Natural Bristle Paint Brushes and 
     Brush Heads, Coumarin, Greig Polyester Cotton Print Cloth, 
     Sparklers.


                       TECHNOLOGY AND ELECTRONICS

       Color Television Receivers, Telephone Systems and 
     Subassemblies, Drams of 1 Megabit & above, Multiangle Laser 
     Light Scattering Instrument Semiconductors, 3.5 Prime; 
     Microdisks & Media Thereof, Static Random Access Memory, 
     Random-access Memory Chips, Memory Semiconductors, Video 
     Random Access Memory, Color Picture Tubes, Defrost Timers, 
     Cellular Mobile Telephones & Subassemblies, Supercomputers.

     

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