§2114d Foreign Export Requirements; Consultations and Negotiations for Reduction and Elimination; Restrictions on and Exclusion From Entry of Products or Services; Savings Provision; Compensation Authority Applicable

Summary

The United States Trade Representative must try to get another country or its agency to reduce or remove any export-performance rules that hurt U.S. economic interests. The Trade Representative makes that decision with advice from the committee created by section 1872 and tries to resolve the matter by talks and negotiations. If talks fail, the Trade Representative can impose duties or other import limits, and can bar certain products or services from entering the United States. Those limits do not apply to goods or services tied to foreign direct investments (including buying land or facilities) made by a U.S. person before October 30, 1984, or to written commitments about such investments that were binding on that date. If international obligations or those actions make payment necessary, the Trade Representative may provide compensation under the limits in section 2133 for actions under section 2253.