22 U.S.C. § 6943: Authorization of…

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Congress may provide whatever money is needed, on top of other funds, for fiscal year 2001 and each year after to hire extra staff in several agencies to watch and act on China’s trade behavior. The Department of Commerce gets money to monitor China’s WTO promises, help U.S. negotiators, enforce U.S. trade laws, and run a Trade Law Technical Assistance Center to help small and medium businesses, workers, and unions. The Commerce and State Departments can get funds for an Overseas Compliance Program to monitor China on site and help enforce U.S. trade laws. The annual report to Congress under section 6951 must include the Overseas Compliance Program’s findings. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative can get funds to add staff for WTO cases, legal work, economic analysis, a China geographic office, and sector teams (like agriculture, industry, services, and intellectual property). The Department of Agriculture can get money to add staff with legal and technical skills, including on food safety and biotechnology, to monitor China’s trade obligations.

Title 22, §6943

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(a)Department of Commerce

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce, in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes, such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001, and each fiscal year thereafter, for additional staff for— (1)

(2)enforcement of United States trade laws with respect to products of the People’s Republic of China; and

(3)a Trade Law Technical Assistance Center to assist small- and medium-sized businesses, workers, and unions in evaluating potential remedies available under the trade laws of the United States with respect to trade involving the People’s Republic of China.

(b)Overseas Compliance Program

(1)Authorization of appropriation

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce and the Department of State, in addition to amounts otherwise available, such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001, and each fiscal year thereafter, to provide staff for monitoring in the People’s Republic of China that country’s compliance with its international trade obligations and to support the enforcement of the trade laws of the United States, as part of an Overseas Compliance Program which monitors abroad compliance with international trade obligations and supports the enforcement of United States trade laws.

(2)Reporting

The annual report on compliance by the People’s Republic of China submitted to the Congress under section 6951 of this title shall include the findings of the Overseas Compliance Program with respect to the People’s Republic of China.

(c)United States Trade Representative

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes, such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001, and each fiscal year thereafter, for additional staff in— (1)

(2)the Office of Economic Affairs, to analyze the impact on the economy of the United States, including United States exports, of acts of the Government of the People’s Republic of China affecting access to markets in the People’s Republic of China and to support the Office of the General Counsel in presenting cases to the WTO involving the People’s Republic of China;

(3)the geographic office for the People’s Republic of China; and

(4)offices relating to the WTO and to different sectors of the economy, including agriculture, industry, services, and intellectual property rights protection, to monitor and enforce the trade agreement obligations of the People’s Republic of China in those sectors.

(d)Department of Agriculture

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Agriculture, in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes, such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001, and each fiscal year thereafter, for additional staff to increase legal and technical expertise in areas covered by trade agreements and United States trade law, including food safety and biotechnology, for purposes of monitoring compliance by the People’s Republic of China with its trade agreement obligations.

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The Trade Act of 1974, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), is Pub. L. 93–618, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1978. Title III of the Act is classified principally to subchapter III (§ 2411 et seq.) of chapter 12 of Title 19, Customs Duties. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 2101 of Title 19 and Tables.

§6943 Authorization of Appropriations

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Title 22, §6943

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