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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1504 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To withdraw normal trade relations treatment from, and apply certain provi- |
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| 6 | 6 | | sions of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 to, products of the People’s |
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| 7 | 7 | | Republic of China, and to expand the eligibility requirements for products |
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| 8 | 8 | | of the People’s Republic of China to receive normal trade relations |
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| 9 | 9 | | treatment in the future, and for other purposes. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | FEBRUARY21, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. S |
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| 13 | 13 | | MITHof New Jersey (for himself, Mr. TIFFANY, and Mr. OGLES) intro- |
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| 14 | 14 | | duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways |
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| 15 | 15 | | and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to |
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| 16 | 16 | | be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider- |
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| 17 | 17 | | ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee |
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| 18 | 18 | | concerned |
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| 19 | 19 | | A BILL |
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| 20 | 20 | | To withdraw normal trade relations treatment from, and |
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| 21 | 21 | | apply certain provisions of title IV of the Trade Act |
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| 22 | 22 | | of 1974 to, products of the People’s Republic of China, |
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| 23 | 23 | | and to expand the eligibility requirements for products |
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| 24 | 24 | | of the People’s Republic of China to receive normal trade |
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| 25 | 25 | | relations treatment in the future, and for other purposes. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘China Trade Relations 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Act of 2025’’. 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | SEC. 2. WITHDRAWAL OF NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | TREATMENT FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | OF CHINA. 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Notwithstanding the provisions of title I of Public 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Law 106–286 (114 Stat. 880) or any other provision of 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | law, effective on the date of the enactment of this Act— 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (1) normal trade relations treatment shall not 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | apply pursuant to section 101 of that Act to the 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | products of the People’s Republic of China; 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (2) normal trade relations treatment may there-13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | after be extended to the products of the People’s Re-14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | public of China only in accordance with the provi-15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | sions of chapter 1 of title IV of the Trade Act of 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.), as in effect with re-17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | spect to the products of the People’s Republic of 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | China on the day before the effective date of the ac-19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | cession of the People’s Republic of China to the 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | World Trade Organization; and 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (3) the extension of waiver authority that was 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | in effect with respect to the People’s Republic of 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | China under section 402(d)(1) of the Trade Act of 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2432(d)(1)) on the day before the 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | effective date of the accession of the People’s Repub-26 |
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| 60 | 60 | | lic of China to the World Trade Organization shall, 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | upon the enactment of this Act, be deemed not to 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | have expired, and shall continue in effect until the 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | date that is 90 days after the date of such enact-4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ment. 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | SEC. 3. EXPANSION OF BASES OF INELIGIBILITY OF PEO-6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | PLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR NORMAL 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | TRADE RELATIONS. 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (a) I |
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| 69 | 69 | | NGENERAL.—Section 402 of the Trade Act of 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2432) is amended— 10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘ |
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| 72 | 72 | | FREE-11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | DOM OF EMIGRATION IN EAST -WEST TRADE ’’ 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | and inserting ‘‘ |
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| 75 | 75 | | EAST-WEST TRADE AND HUMAN 13 |
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| 76 | 76 | | RIGHTS’’; and 14 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 15 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(f) A |
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| 79 | 79 | | DDITIONALBASES OFINELIGIBILITY OFPEO-16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | PLE’SREPUBLIC OFCHINA FORNORMALTRADERELA-17 |
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| 81 | 81 | | TIONS.— 18 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 83 | 83 | | N GENERAL.—Products from the People’s 19 |
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| 84 | 84 | | Republic of China shall not be eligible to receive 20 |
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| 85 | 85 | | nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade rela-21 |
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| 86 | 86 | | tions), the People’s Republic of China shall not par-22 |
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| 87 | 87 | | ticipate in any program of the Government of the 23 |
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| 88 | 88 | | United States which extends credits or credit guar-24 |
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| 89 | 89 | | antees or investment guarantees, directly or indi-25 |
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| 93 | 93 | | rectly, and the President shall not conclude any 1 |
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| 94 | 94 | | commercial agreement with the People’s Republic of 2 |
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| 95 | 95 | | China, during the period— 3 |
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| 96 | 96 | | ‘‘(A) beginning with the date on which the 4 |
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| 97 | 97 | | President determines that the People’s Republic 5 |
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| 98 | 98 | | of China— 6 |
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| 99 | 99 | | ‘‘(i) is in violation of paragraph (1), 7 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (2), or (3) of subsection (a); 8 |
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| 101 | 101 | | ‘‘(ii) has not substantially promoted 9 |
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| 102 | 102 | | the freedom of emigration objectives of this 10 |
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| 103 | 103 | | section; 11 |
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| 104 | 104 | | ‘‘(iii) has not complied with the 12 |
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| 105 | 105 | | China-United States Memorandum of Un-13 |
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| 106 | 106 | | derstanding on Prohibiting Import and Ex-14 |
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| 107 | 107 | | port Trade in Prison Labor Products, done 15 |
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| 108 | 108 | | at Washington, DC, on August 7, 1992; 16 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ‘‘(iv) has not complied with Inter-17 |
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| 110 | 110 | | national Labour Organization standards; 18 |
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| 111 | 111 | | ‘‘(v) operates ‘vocational training and 19 |
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| 112 | 112 | | education centers’ or other concentration 20 |
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| 113 | 113 | | camps where people are held against their 21 |
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| 114 | 114 | | will; 22 |
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| 115 | 115 | | ‘‘(vi) intimidates or harasses nationals 23 |
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| 116 | 116 | | of the People’s Republic of China living 24 |
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| 117 | 117 | | outside the People’s Republic of China; 25 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ‘‘(vii) fails to protect Tibet’s distinc-1 |
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| 122 | 122 | | tive religious and cultural heritage; 2 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ‘‘(viii) engages in systematic economic 3 |
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| 124 | 124 | | espionage against the United States, in-4 |
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| 125 | 125 | | cluding theft of the intellectual property of 5 |
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| 126 | 126 | | United States persons; and 6 |
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| 127 | 127 | | ‘‘(ix) has not made significant 7 |
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| 128 | 128 | | progress on— 8 |
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| 129 | 129 | | ‘‘(I) taking steps to begin adher-9 |
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| 130 | 130 | | ing to the Universal Declaration of 10 |
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| 131 | 131 | | Human Rights; 11 |
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| 132 | 132 | | ‘‘(II) eliminating the use of tor-12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ture; 13 |
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| 134 | 134 | | ‘‘(III) releasing and providing an 14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | acceptable accounting for Chinese citi-15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | zens imprisoned or detained for the 16 |
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| 137 | 137 | | non-violent expression of their polit-17 |
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| 138 | 138 | | ical and religious beliefs, including 18 |
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| 139 | 139 | | such expression of beliefs in connec-19 |
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| 140 | 140 | | tion with the independence of Hong 20 |
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| 141 | 141 | | Kong and Taiwan; 21 |
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| 142 | 142 | | ‘‘(IV) ensuring humane treat-22 |
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| 143 | 143 | | ment of prisoners, such as by allowing 23 |
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| 144 | 144 | | access to prisons by international hu-24 |
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| 148 | 148 | | manitarian and human rights organi-1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | zations; 2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | ‘‘(V) permitting international 3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | radio and television broadcasts into 4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | China; 5 |
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| 153 | 153 | | ‘‘(VI) humanely treating pris-6 |
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| 154 | 154 | | oners; 7 |
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| 155 | 155 | | ‘‘(VII) allowing access to inter-8 |
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| 156 | 156 | | national humanitarian and human 9 |
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| 157 | 157 | | rights organizations; 10 |
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| 158 | 158 | | ‘‘(VIII) ceasing harvesting the 11 |
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| 159 | 159 | | organs of prisoners without their con-12 |
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| 160 | 160 | | sent; or 13 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ‘‘(IX) ceasing performing and 14 |
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| 162 | 162 | | otherwise ordering forced abortion or 15 |
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| 163 | 163 | | sterilization procedures; and 16 |
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| 164 | 164 | | ‘‘(B) ending on the date on which the 17 |
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| 165 | 165 | | President determines that the People’s Republic 18 |
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| 166 | 166 | | of China is no longer in violation of any of 19 |
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| 167 | 167 | | clauses (i) through (ix) of subparagraph (A). 20 |
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| 168 | 168 | | ‘‘(2) R |
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| 169 | 169 | | EPORT REQUIRED.— 21 |
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| 170 | 170 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 171 | 171 | | N GENERAL.—After the date of the 22 |
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| 172 | 172 | | enactment of this subsection, products of the 23 |
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| 173 | 173 | | People’s Republic of China may be eligible to 24 |
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| 174 | 174 | | receive nondiscriminatory treatment (normal 25 |
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| 178 | 178 | | trade relations), the People’s Republic of China 1 |
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| 179 | 179 | | may participate in any program of the Govern-2 |
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| 180 | 180 | | ment of the United States which extends credits 3 |
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| 181 | 181 | | or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, 4 |
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| 182 | 182 | | and the President may conclude a commercial 5 |
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| 183 | 183 | | agreement with the People’s Republic of China, 6 |
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| 184 | 184 | | only after the President has submitted to Con-7 |
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| 185 | 185 | | gress a report indicating that the People’s Re-8 |
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| 186 | 186 | | public of China is not in violation of any of 9 |
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| 187 | 187 | | clauses (i) through (ix) of paragraph (1)(A). 10 |
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| 188 | 188 | | ‘‘(B) E |
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| 189 | 189 | | LEMENTS.—The report required by 11 |
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| 190 | 190 | | subparagraph (A) shall include information as 12 |
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| 191 | 191 | | to the nature and implementation of laws and 13 |
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| 192 | 192 | | policies of the People’s Republic of China relat-14 |
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| 193 | 193 | | ing to the matters specified in clauses (i) 15 |
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| 194 | 194 | | through (ix) of paragraph (1)(A). 16 |
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| 195 | 195 | | ‘‘(C) D |
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| 196 | 196 | | EADLINES.—The report required by 17 |
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| 197 | 197 | | subparagraph (A) shall be submitted on or be-18 |
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| 198 | 198 | | fore each June 30 and December 31 of each 19 |
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| 199 | 199 | | year for as long as products of the People’s Re-20 |
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| 200 | 200 | | public of China receive nondiscriminatory treat-21 |
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| 201 | 201 | | ment (normal trade relations), the People’s Re-22 |
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| 202 | 202 | | public of China participates in any program of 23 |
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| 203 | 203 | | the Government of the United States which ex-24 |
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| 208 | 208 | | guarantees, or a commercial agreement with the 1 |
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| 209 | 209 | | People’s Republic of China is in effect. 2 |
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| 210 | 210 | | ‘‘(3) W |
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| 211 | 211 | | AIVER.— 3 |
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| 212 | 212 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 213 | 213 | | N GENERAL.—The President is au-4 |
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| 214 | 214 | | thorized to waive by Executive order the appli-5 |
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| 215 | 215 | | cation of paragraphs (1) and (2) for a 12- 6 |
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| 216 | 216 | | month period if the President submits to Con-7 |
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| 217 | 217 | | gress a report that the President— 8 |
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| 218 | 218 | | ‘‘(i) has determined that such waiver 9 |
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| 219 | 219 | | will substantially promote the objectives of 10 |
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| 220 | 220 | | this subsection; and 11 |
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| 221 | 221 | | ‘‘(ii) has received assurances that the 12 |
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| 222 | 222 | | practices of the People’s Republic of China 13 |
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| 223 | 223 | | relating to the matters specified in clauses 14 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (i) through (ix) of paragraph (1)(A) will in 15 |
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| 225 | 225 | | the future lead substantially to the achieve-16 |
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| 226 | 226 | | ment of the objectives of this subsection. 17 |
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| 227 | 227 | | ‘‘(B) T |
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| 228 | 228 | | ERMINATION OF WAIVER .—A waiver 18 |
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| 229 | 229 | | under subparagraph (A) shall terminate on the 19 |
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| 230 | 230 | | earlier of— 20 |
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| 231 | 231 | | ‘‘(i) the day after the waiver authority 21 |
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| 232 | 232 | | granted by this paragraph ceases to be ef-22 |
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| 233 | 233 | | fective under paragraph (4); or 23 |
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| 237 | 237 | | ‘‘(ii) the effective date of an Executive 1 |
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| 238 | 238 | | order providing for termination of the 2 |
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| 239 | 239 | | waiver. 3 |
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| 240 | 240 | | ‘‘(4) E |
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| 241 | 241 | | XTENSION OF WAIVER AUTHORITY .— 4 |
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| 242 | 242 | | ‘‘(A) R |
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| 243 | 243 | | ECOMMENDATIONS .—If the Presi-5 |
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| 244 | 244 | | dent determines that the further extension of 6 |
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| 245 | 245 | | the waiver authority granted under paragraph 7 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (3) will substantially promote the objectives of 8 |
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| 247 | 247 | | this subsection, the President may recommend 9 |
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| 248 | 248 | | further extensions of such authority for succes-10 |
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| 249 | 249 | | sive 12-month periods. Any such recommenda-11 |
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| 250 | 250 | | tions shall— 12 |
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| 251 | 251 | | ‘‘(i) be made not later than 30 days 13 |
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| 252 | 252 | | before the expiration of such authority; 14 |
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| 253 | 253 | | ‘‘(ii) be made in a document sub-15 |
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| 254 | 254 | | mitted to the House of Representatives 16 |
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| 255 | 255 | | and the Senate setting forth the reasons of 17 |
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| 256 | 256 | | the President for recommending the exten-18 |
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| 257 | 257 | | sion of such authority; and 19 |
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| 258 | 258 | | ‘‘(iii) include— 20 |
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| 259 | 259 | | ‘‘(I) a determination that con-21 |
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| 260 | 260 | | tinuation of the waiver will substan-22 |
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| 261 | 261 | | tially promote the objectives of this 23 |
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| 266 | 266 | | ‘‘(II) a statement setting forth 1 |
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| 267 | 267 | | the reasons of the President for such 2 |
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| 268 | 268 | | determination. 3 |
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| 269 | 269 | | ‘‘(B) C |
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| 270 | 270 | | ONTINUATION IN EFFECT OF WAIV -4 |
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| 271 | 271 | | ER.—If the President recommends under sub-5 |
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| 272 | 272 | | paragraph (A) the further extension of the 6 |
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| 273 | 273 | | waiver authority granted under paragraph (3), 7 |
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| 274 | 274 | | such authority shall continue in effect until the 8 |
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| 275 | 275 | | end of the 12-month period following the end of 9 |
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| 276 | 276 | | the previous 12-month extension, unless— 10 |
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| 277 | 277 | | ‘‘(i) Congress adopts and transmits to 11 |
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| 278 | 278 | | the President a joint resolution of dis-12 |
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| 279 | 279 | | approval under paragraph (5) before the 13 |
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| 280 | 280 | | end of the 60-day period beginning on the 14 |
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| 281 | 281 | | date the waiver authority would expire but 15 |
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| 282 | 282 | | for an extension under subparagraph (A); 16 |
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| 283 | 283 | | and 17 |
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| 284 | 284 | | ‘‘(ii) if the President vetoes the joint 18 |
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| 285 | 285 | | resolution, each House of Congress votes 19 |
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| 286 | 286 | | to override the veto on or before the later 20 |
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| 287 | 287 | | of— 21 |
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| 288 | 288 | | ‘‘(I) the last day of the 60-day 22 |
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| 289 | 289 | | period referred to in clause (i); or 23 |
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| 290 | 290 | | ‘‘(II) the last day of the 15-day 24 |
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| 291 | 291 | | period (excluding any day described in 25 |
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| 295 | 295 | | section 154(b)) beginning on the date 1 |
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| 296 | 296 | | on which Congress receives the veto 2 |
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| 297 | 297 | | message from the President. 3 |
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| 298 | 298 | | ‘‘(C) T |
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| 299 | 299 | | ERMINATION OF WAIVER PURSUANT 4 |
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| 300 | 300 | | TO JOINT RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL .—If a 5 |
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| 301 | 301 | | joint resolution of disapproval is enacted into 6 |
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| 302 | 302 | | law pursuant to paragraph (5), the waiver au-7 |
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| 303 | 303 | | thority granted under paragraph (3) shall cease 8 |
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| 304 | 304 | | to be effective as of the day after the 60-day 9 |
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| 305 | 305 | | period beginning on the date of the enactment 10 |
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| 306 | 306 | | of the joint resolution. 11 |
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| 307 | 307 | | ‘‘(5) J |
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| 308 | 308 | | OINT RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL .— 12 |
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| 309 | 309 | | ‘‘(A) J |
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| 310 | 310 | | OINT RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL 13 |
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| 311 | 311 | | DEFINED.—In this paragraph, the term ‘joint 14 |
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| 312 | 312 | | resolution of disapproval’ means a joint resolu-15 |
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| 313 | 313 | | tion the matter after the resolving clause of 16 |
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| 314 | 314 | | which is as follows: ‘That Congress does not ap-17 |
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| 315 | 315 | | prove the extension of the authority contained 18 |
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| 316 | 316 | | in paragraph (3) of section 402(f) of the Trade 19 |
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| 317 | 317 | | Act of 1974 with respect to the People’s Repub-20 |
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| 318 | 318 | | lic of China recommended by the President to 21 |
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| 319 | 319 | | Congress under paragraph (4) of that section 22 |
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| 320 | 320 | | on lll.’, with the blank space being filled 23 |
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| 325 | 325 | | ‘‘(B) PROCEDURES IN HOUSE AND SEN -1 |
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| 326 | 326 | | ATE.—The provisions of subsections (b) 2 |
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| 327 | 327 | | through (f) of section 152 shall apply with re-3 |
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| 328 | 328 | | spect to a joint resolution of approval to the 4 |
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| 329 | 329 | | same extent and in the same manner as such 5 |
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| 330 | 330 | | provisions apply with respect to a resolution de-6 |
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| 331 | 331 | | scribed in subsection (a) of that section, except 7 |
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| 332 | 332 | | that subsection (e)(2) of that section shall be 8 |
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| 333 | 333 | | applied and administered by substituting ‘Con-9 |
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| 334 | 334 | | sideration’ for ‘Debate’. 10 |
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| 335 | 335 | | ‘‘(C) R |
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| 336 | 336 | | ULES OF THE HOUSE OF REP -11 |
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| 337 | 337 | | RESENTATIVES AND SENATE .—This paragraph 12 |
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| 338 | 338 | | is enacted by Congress— 13 |
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| 339 | 339 | | ‘‘(i) as an exercise of the rulemaking 14 |
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| 340 | 340 | | power of the House of Representatives and 15 |
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| 341 | 341 | | the Senate, respectively, and as such is 16 |
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| 342 | 342 | | deemed a part of the rules of each House, 17 |
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| 343 | 343 | | respectively, and supersedes other rules 18 |
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| 344 | 344 | | only to the extent that it is inconsistent 19 |
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| 345 | 345 | | with such other rules; and 20 |
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| 346 | 346 | | ‘‘(ii) with full recognition of the con-21 |
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| 347 | 347 | | stitutional right of either House to change 22 |
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| 348 | 348 | | the rules (so far as relating to the proce-23 |
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| 354 | 354 | | the case of any other rule of that House.’’. 2 |
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| 357 | 357 | | for the Trade Act of 1974 is amended by striking the item 4 |
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| 358 | 358 | | relating to section 402 and inserting the following: 5 |
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| 359 | 359 | | ‘‘Sec. 402. East-West trade and human rights.’’. |
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