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      "title": "Trade Promotion (Fast-Track) Authority: A Comparison of H.R. 3005 as Approved by the House and Reported by the Senate Finance Committee",
      "summary": "This report compares  H.R. 3005 , the  Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of\n2001 , as approved by the House on December 6, 2001, and as ordered reported by the Senate\nFinance\nCommittee on December 18, 2001 ( S.Rept. 107-139 ).\n  The trade negotiating objectives in both versions are similar but not identical. Both versions\nhave the same seven overall objectives, but the Senate Finance Committee version has an eighth on\nsmall businesses. They have the same 13 principal objectives, with some language differences for\nthree--foreign investment, agriculture, and dispute settlement--and the Senate Finance Committee\nadds a 14th principal objective on border taxes. Both versions call for the President to take almost\nthe same 12 actions to maintain U.S. competitiveness.\n  The two versions have almost identical language on the President's authority to proclaim tariff\nchanges and to negotiate trade agreements with expedited legislative procedures for an implementing\nbill. They have the same deadline for negotiating agreements and almost the same requirements for\nextending the deadline. They both state that a trade agreement must \"make progress in meeting\"\nnegotiating objectives and describe similar kinds of provisions that an implementing bill may have.\n  Both versions have identical language regarding notification and consultation before and during\nnegotiations. They both have special provisions on negotiations on textiles and agriculture (the\nSenate Finance Committee version includes fish and shellfish with agriculture). They both require\nreports by private sector advisors and the International Trade Commission (ITC). They have the\nsame language on consultation with Congress before entering into an agreement, but the Senate\nFinance Committee version adds requirements for any changes to trade remedy laws.\n  Both versions have similar provisions on the President's submission of the trade agreement and\nother documents to Congress. The Senate Finance Committee version adds language on reporting\nchanges to the trade remedy laws, procedural action in the Senate, and disclosure of oral or written\nagreements with foreign governments. It also adds that expedited procedures will not apply, if the\nCommerce Secretary does not submit a report on a U.S. strategy toward certain dispute actions in\nthe World Trade Organization in a timely manner.\n  Both versions are almost identical on establishing a Congressional Oversight Group. They both\nprovide for adjustment to the pre-notification requirements where negotiations are underway, require\na plan by the President to address enforcement, and state that congressional trade-related activities\nshould increase. Additional sections in the Senate Finance Committee version would require the ITC\nto report on agreements implemented under expedited procedures in the past, and would direct the\nUSTR to seek an advocate in the WTO for small- or medium-sized businesses.",
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