§7904 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The United States Trade Representative must, within 1 year after August 8, 2005, find trade barriers in other countries that block U.S. exports of technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the developing countries listed in an earlier report. The USTR must try to negotiate with those countries to remove the barriers, consistent with existing trade agreements. Within 1 year after making that list and every year after, the USTR must send Congress a report on any progress in removing the barriers.

Title 22, §7904

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(a)Not later than 1 year after August 8, 2005, the United States Trade Representative shall (as appropriate and consistent with applicable bilateral, regional, and mutual trade agreements)—

(1)identify trade-relations barriers maintained by foreign countries to the export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States to the developing countries identified in the report submitted under section 7902(a)(2)(A) of this title; and

(2)negotiate with foreign countries for the removal of those barriers.

(b)Not later than 1 year after the date on which a report is submitted under subsection (a)(1) and annually thereafter, the United States Trade Representative shall submit to Congress a report that describes any progress made with respect to removing the barriers identified by the United States Trade Representative under subsection (a)(1).

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Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided, see section 739 of Pub. L. 101–240, set out as a note under section 7901 of this title.

§7904 Trade-related Barriers to Export of Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technologies

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