§2514 Expansion of the Coverage of the Agreement

Summary

Require the President, in the Agreement renegotiations, to get more open and fair access to foreign government buying markets and to reduce or remove practices that distort trade in government procurement. The goal is to expand markets for U.S. farm, industrial, mining, and commercial products and to protect fair, nondiscriminatory trade. The President must consider the assessment in the report required under section 2516(a). The President must also push, where possible, for U.S. exporters to have the same competitive chances in developed countries that those countries give U.S. suppliers, taking into account all trade barriers and distortions. Require the President to seek a system to independently check information given to the Agreement’s procurement committee. If renegotiations are not moving forward and are unlikely, within twelve months, to expand the Agreement to cover purchases by the main government buyers in key product areas, the President must report that to the congressional committees named in section 2512(c)(1) and recommend actions to get reciprocal access. The President may propose laws to stop U.S. government entities not covered by the Agreement from buying products of those countries. Each annual report under section 163(a) of the Trade Act of 1974 after July 26, 1979 must say what was done to seek reciprocity. Before using the waiver in section 2511 for purchases not covered when the Agreement takes effect for the U.S., the President must follow the private-sector and congressional consultation steps in section 135 and chapter 6 of title I of the Trade Act of 1974.