[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 13, 2017)]
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[FR Doc No: 2017-27037]


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                Memorandum of December 8, 2017

                
Delaying Submission of the Small Business 
                Administration Report Under the Trade Facilitation and 
                Trade Enforcement Act of 2015

                Memorandum for the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the 
                Small Business Administration

                The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 
                2015 (TFTEA) (Public Law 114-125) requires you to 
                submit to the Congress a report on the economic impacts 
                of a covered trade agreement on small businesses not 
                less than 180 days after you convene an Interagency 
                Working Group for the relevant trade agreement. The 
                report for the renegotiation of the North American Free 
                Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will soon be due. To ensure 
                that the negotiations are not disrupted, however, by 
                the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including section 502 of the TFTEA, I require 
                you to delay the submission of the report until after 
                the negotiations are concluded, but not later than 30 
                days after a renegotiated agreement is signed, provided 
                that the delay allows you to submit the report to the 
                Congress not later than 45 days before the Senate or 
                the House of Representatives acts to approve or 
                disapprove the trade agreement.

                You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, December 8, 2017

[FR Doc. 2017-27037
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