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Volume 8, Issue 98
Tuesday, May 22, 2001
 In this issue...
EU Hopes to Raise Profile in China
Speaking at the European Union (EU) Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, European External Affairs Commissioner Christopher Patten said that completing China’s World Trade Organization (WTO) accession, after what he termed “frustrating” delays, is the Brussels top priority in its evolving relationship with Beijing.
Full Article...

International Trade News
White House Promises “Flexibility” on TPA.
Full Article...

China Responds to US on WTO Accession.
Full Article...

US Says New Guatemalan Labor Code Shows Effort to Meet Labor Standards.
Full Article...

National Debate over Wheat, Corn Gluten.
Full Article...

Free Trade Talks Continue between Singapore, US.
Full Article...

Pallone Introduces Legislation for Consumer Protection against Tainted Food.
Full Article...

Joint Economic Committee Proposes Energy Policy Changes.
Full Article...

Indian Lenders Seek Government Intervention in Power Project Completion.
Full Article...

South Americans Consider Regional Trade Options.
Full Article...

France Weighs in on the EU Enlargement Dispute.
Full Article...

Paris Invites Foreign Bidders for Defense Contracts.
Full Article...

EU Promotes Additional Market Access Measures for LDCs in UN Forum.
Full Article...

State Department Announces Meetings
The US Department of State has announced the following meetings:

• US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
• Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC)
• Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy
Full Article... Source Document 1...  Source Document 2...  Source Document 3...  Source Document 4... 

NOAA Notices
NOAA Modifies Closure of Shallow-Water Species Fishery in GOA.
Full Article...

NOAA Seeks Comments on DSEIS.
Full Article...

AD Notices
Following is a summary of current antidumping duty (AD) actions taken by the DOC’s International Trade Administration (ITA):

Certain Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from Taiwan.
Full Article... Source Document 1... 

Solid Agricultural Grade Ammonium Nitrate from Ukraine.
Full Article... Source Document 1... 

USITC News
USITC Votes to Continue Cases on Silicomanganese from India, Kazakhstan, and Venezuela.
Full Article...

USITC Issues Interim Report on US Market Conditions for Certain Wool Articles.
Full Article...

MARAD Seeks Comments on Applicability of Ownership and Control Requirements
MARAD Seeks Comments on Applicability of Ownership and Control Requirements.
Full Article... Source Document 1...  Source Document 2... 

 RECENTLY INTRODUCED LEGISLATION IN THE 111th CONGRESS:
 Legislation Repository... 

Bill#
Sponsor

Date Introduced

Description

Action

S 910
Rockefeller

05/17/01

A bill to provide certain safeguards with respect to the domestic steel industry

Referred to the Committee on Finance

HR 1888
Andrews

05/17/01

A bill to eliminate corporate welfare

Referred to the Committees on Ways and Means; Resources, Agriculture, Energy, and Commerce; Transportation, and Infrastructure; and Budget

HR 1894
Clayton

05/17/01

A bill to supplement current activities in the exchange of agricultural and farming expertise by establishing a grant program to support bilateral exchange programs whereby African American and other American farmers share technical knowledge with African and Caribbean Basin farmers regarding maximization of crop yields, use of risk management tools, expansion of agricultural trade, use of new financial instruments to increase access to credit, and other ways to improve farming methods, and for other purposes

Referred to the Committees on Agriculture, and International Relations

HR 1898
Flake

05/17/01

A bill to amend the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) to update the export licensing requirements under the Act, and for other purposes

Referred to the Committee on International Relations

HR 1886
Coble

05/17/01

A bill to amend title 35, US Code, to provide for appeals by third parties in certain patent reexamination proceedings

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

HR 1860
Ehlers

05/16/01

A bill to reauthorize the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes

Referred to the Committees on Small Business, and Science

HR 1864
Camp

05/16/01

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage and accelerate the nationwide production, retail sale, and consumer use of new motor vehicles that are powered by fuel cell technology, hybrid technology, battery electric technology, alternative fuels, or other advanced motor vehicle technologies, and for other purposes

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

HR 1876
Isakson

05/16/01

A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on nelfilcon polymer

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

HR 1878
Kind

05/16/01

A bill to provide supplemental payments to diary producers based upon their annual milk marketing and to provide additional payments to dairy producers for any month in which the prices received by producers for milk for the preceding three months is less than a target price of $12.50 per hundredweight

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture

S 894
Helms

05/16/01

A bill to authorize increased support to the democratic opposition and other oppressed people of Cuba to help them regain their freedom and prepare themselves for a democratic future, and for other purposes

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

HR 1830
Larson

05/15/01

A bill to ensure the energy self-sufficiently of the US by 2011, and for other purposes

Refereed to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Government Reform

HR 1838
Brady

05/15/01

A bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to modify the provisions relating to drawback claims and other purposes

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

S 883
Dodd

05/15/01

A bill to ensure the energy self-sufficiently of the US by 2011, and for other purposes

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

HConRes 135
Schaffer

05/15/01

Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress welcoming President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan to the US

Referred to the Committee on International Relations

S 884
Domenici

05/15/01

A bill to improve port-of-entry infrastructure along the Southwest border of the US, to establish grants to improve port-of-entry facilities, to designate a port-of-entry as a port technology demonstration site, and for other purposes

Referred to the Committee on Finance

HR 1827
Hutchinson

05/14/01

A bill to reauthorize the consent of Congress to the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact and to grant the consent of Congress to the Southern Dairy Compact, a Pacific Northwest Compact, and an Intermountain Dairy Compact

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

S 873
Helms

05/14/01

A bill to preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities

Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension

S 877
Nelson

05/14/01

A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require that a warning label be affixed to arsenic-treated wood sold in the US

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

SRes 88
Kennedy

05/14/01

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on the importance of membership of the US on the United Nations Human Rights Commission

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

HR 1828
Sawyer

05/14/01

A bill to require the president to report annually to the Congress on effects of the imposition of unilateral economic sanctions by the US

Referred to the Committee on International Relations


 RECENTLY ANNOUNCED CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS:
 Hearings Repository... 

Date/Time

Committee

Subject

5/22/2001
10:00am

House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy

Services acquisition within the federal government


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