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      "title": "Trade Agreements: Requirements for Presidential Consultations, Notices, and Reports to Congress Regarding Negotiations",
      "summary": "The Congress, which has exclusive constitutional power to regulate foreign trade, has authorized\nthe\nPresident to negotiate and enter into certain trade agreements with foreign countries and have them\nimplemented by legislation considered under a mandatory expedited procedure and without\namendments. Because of this nonamendability requirement on one hand and, on the other, the\nCongress\u2019s intent to exercise its constitutional function of fashioning foreign trade policy\nso as to\nassure that such agreements reflect the objectives set for them by the legislation authorizing their\nnegotiation and its own diverse interests and goals, the Congress requires the President to keep it\ncurrently informed regarding the negotiations through frequent consultations, notices, and reports\nbefore, during, and after the negotiations. For this purpose, Congress has established two specialized\nbodies, which -- in addition to various committees of jurisdiction over the matters involved in the\nagreements -- are to receive such communications as well as, in their turn, are to provide advice on\nthe negotiations and in the formulation of the U.S. trade policy: the Congressional advisers for trade\npolicy and negotiations, and the Congressional Oversight Group.\n \n This report provides a detailed list of such communications -- together with their statutory\nreferences -- in the approximate time sequence in which they are to take place. \n \n This report will not be updated",
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