Download or read book Trade Promotion Authority and Fast Track Negotiating Authority for Trade Agreements written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report profiles significant legislation from 1974 to the present that authorizes the use of presidential Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), previously known as fast-track trade negotiating authority. It identifies significant bills and resolutions that had floor votes. It also includes a list of floor votes on implementing legislation for trade agreements from 1979 to the present; these bills were passed under TPA expedited procedures by Congress and signed by the President. For further discussions of TPA, P.L. 107-210, or fast-track legislative activity, the report lists CRS Reports and Internet resources. This report will be updated as events warrant in the 110th Congress.
Download or read book Fast Track A Legal Historical and Political Analysis written by Hal Shapiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast track was conceived as a mundane procedural mechanism to enhance the president's credibility in negotiating complex multilateral trade agreements by streamlining the congressional approval process into an up-or-down vote in return for enhanced congressional oversight. It allows the President to negotiate international trade agreements knowing that Congress will provide a timely vote on the agreement without amendments. Given its seminal importance to the trade debate, however, fast track has acquired greater significance and controversy. This incisive text examines whether fast track is an evolutionary advancement in U.S. international economic agreements or an end-run around the constitutional treaty provision; whether it is a reflection of the shared constitutional powers of Congress and the President in the area of foreign affairs or an unconstitutional abdication of Congress’s power to regulate foreign commerce and its ability to set its own procedural rules; whether fast track is needed to put the United States on even footing with other nations that have efficient international agreement approval mechanisms or a unique U.S. ratification short-cut not found elsewhere; whether there is a better way for the United States to approve and implement trade agreements; whether the arguments of the left and right on fast track need a new focus; and whether there is a role for the states to play in U.S. trade policy formation. Fast Track argues that the time has come for the United States to end its perennial debate over the process by which we approve international trade agreements – i.e., whether to resort to fast track or not – and begin a debate on how best to prepare American citizens to compete in a globalized world. There are signs that the United States is not ready and may even be falling behind. Without question, this book can help formalize a requisite national strategy. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Download or read book Fast Track written by Hal S. Shapiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast Track is the story of the rise and fall of U.S. leadership in international trade. Fast Track authority is the process Congress devised to approve trade agreements, giving Congress input into negotiations in exchange for a timely up-or-down vote. Foes derided it as a procedural gimmick, but it helped forge a bipartisan consensus on trade policy. Despite its successes, it was also fragile. The bipartisan consensus has since frayed and Fast Track has lapsed, allowing other countries to fill the void. This book discusses how Fast Track worked and offers a path for rebuilding consensus in favor of its renewal.
Download or read book Crs Report for Congress written by Congressional Research Service: The Libr and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major trade issues in the 107th Congress was whether or not Congress would approve trade promotion authority (formerly called fast-track authority) for the President to negotiate trade agreements with expedited procedures for implementing legislation. Under this authority, Congress agrees to consider legislation to implement the trade agreements (usually nontariff trade agreements) under a procedure with mandatory deadlines, no amendment, and limited debate. The President is required to consult with congressional committees during negotiation and notify Congress at major stages. The President was granted this authority almost continuously from 1974 to 1994. After that, the authority lapsed. On December 6, 2001, the House passed trade promotion authority (TPA) bill H.R. 3005 by a vote of 215-214. An important issue was the designation of labor and the environment as negotiating objectives. On May 23, 2002, the Senate wrapped TPA into a comprehensive trade bill, H.R. 3009, "the Trade Act of 2002." The bill included TPA (in title XXI), reauthorization of Andean trade preferences, extension of the Generalized System of Preferences, and trade adjustment assistance (TAA). Two controversial differences with the House were: (1) the so-called Dayton-Craig amendment, which would allow the removal from an implementing bill any provisions to ...
Download or read book Trade Promotion Authority and Fast track Negotiating Authority for Trade Agreements written by Carolyn C. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crs Report for Congress written by Congressional Research Service: The Libr and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major trade issues in the 107th Congress is whether or not Congress approves trade promotion authority (formerly called fast-track authority) for the President to negotiate trade agreements with expedited procedures for implementing legislation. Under this authority, Congress agrees to consider legislation to implement the trade agreements (usually nontariff trade agreements) under a procedure with mandatory deadlines, no amendment, and limited debate. The President is required to consult with congressional committees during negotiation and notify Congress at major stages. The President was granted this authority almost continuously from 1974 to 1994, but the authority lapsed and has not been renewed. A major issue in the first session of the 107th Congress was the role of labor and the environment as objectives in trade agreements. Differences were largely along party lines. On December 6, 2001, the House passed TPA bill H.R. 3005 by a vote of 215-214. The bill covers tariff and nontariff agreements entered into by June 1, 2005. For expedited procedures to apply to legislation to implement a trade agreement, the agreement would have to "make progress" toward meeting the outlined negotiating objectives and satisfy other specified conditions. The President would have to consult with congressional bodies, ...
Download or read book Fast Track Authority for Trade Agreements Trade Promotion Authority written by Lenore Sek and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses one of the major trade issues in the 107th Congress: whether or not Congress approves authority for the President to negotiate trade agreements with expedited, or "fast track" procedures. Under this authority, Congress agrees to consider legislation to implement the nontariff trade agreements under a procedure with mandatory deadlines, no amendment, and limited debate. The President is required to consult with congressional committees during negotiation of nontariff trade agreements and notify Congress before entering into any such agreement. The President was granted fast-track authority almost continuously from 1974 to 1994, but the authority lapsed and has not been renewed.
Download or read book Crs Report for Congress written by J. F. Hornbeck and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 1, 2007, Trade Promotion Authority (TPA -- formerly known as fast track), expired. TPA is the authority Congress grants to the President to enter into certain free trade agreements (FTAs), and to have their implementing bills considered under expedited legislative procedures, provided he observes certain statutory obligations in negotiating them. TPA allows Congress to exercise its constitutional authority over trade, while giving the President added leverage to exercise his authority to negotiate trade agreements by effectively assuring U.S. trade partners that final agreements are given swift and unamended consideration. TPA reflects years of debate, cooperation, and compromise between Congress and the Executive Branch in finding a pragmatic accommodation to the exercise of each branch's respective authorities. The core provisions of the fast track legislative procedures have remained unchanged since first enacted in 1974, although Congress has expanded trade negotiation objectives, oversight, and presidential notification requirements. While early versions of fast track/TPA received broad bipartisan support, renewal efforts became increasingly controversial as fears grew over real and perceived negative effects of trade, and as the trade debate became more partisan in nature, culminating in a largely party-line vote on the 2002 renewal. The current renewal debate is centered on ...
Download or read book Trade Promotion Authority TPA Fast Track Renewal written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade promotion authority (TPA), formerly known as "fast-track" authority, is scheduled to expire July 1, 2007. With it will expire the authority: (a) that Congress grants the President to enter into certain trade agreements, and (b) for Congress to consider the agreements' implementing legislation under expedited procedures. Currently, the Administration is negotiating a number of trade agreements that may not be completed before the current TPA is set to expire. If these activities are to continue, TPA/fast-track renewal may be a central issue in the 110th Congress. Within the debate, a major issue is expected to be whether to include as a principal negotiating objective in trade agreements, "enforceable core labor standards." Two TPA/fast-track authorities have incorporated labor provisions. The first, the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (OTCA), which expired in 1994, included the broad, general objective: "to promote worker rights." The North American Free Trade Agreement, with its labor side agreement, was negotiated under OTCA. The second and current TPA/fast-track authority with labor provisions, the Trade Act of 2002, includes protections for labor, modified by protections for country governments, businesses and investors. Seven free trade agreements (FTAs) -- with Chile, Singapore, Australia, Morocco, Bahrain, Oman, and the Dominican Republic and Central America -- were negotiated under this authority. All have only one enforceable labor requirement: that each country not fail to enforce its own labor laws in a manner affecting trade between the parties. (In contrast to this, the U.S.-Jordan FTA, negotiated in 2000 and approved in 2001 without TPA/fast track authority, includes enforceable labor provisions.) Major options for labor provisions in renewed TPA focus on whether principal negotiating objectives should include "enforceable core labor standards." Supporters argue that including these could help: (1) slow the offshoring of certain U.S. jobs; (2) protect foreign workers against exploitative corporate behavior; (3) support the ability of workers to share in the gains from international trade; and (4) fend off an international "race to the bottom" based on labor costs. Opponents argue that: (1) core labor standards should be promoted by the International Labor Organization, not by trade agreements; (2) as countries develop, they adopt higher labor standards on their own; (3) stronger worker protections could discourage international investment; and (4) labor standards are disguised protectionism. History shows that with or without FTAs, trade will likely continue to grow. This report examines issues relating to TPA/fast-track labor provisions in the larger context of global labor issues. It: (1) identifies the players and their positions; (2) tracks the enforceable labor provisions in TPA/fast-track laws and the FTAs negotiated under them; (3) presents some legislative options for new TPA/fast-track labor provisions; and (4) sets out arguments for and against enforceable core labor standards. Finally, it looks at possible outcomes and implications of the various legislative options. This report will be updated as events warrant.
Download or read book Trade Promotion Authority Fast Track written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since trade promotion authority (TPA), formerly called "fast-track negotiating authority" expired in 1994, Congress has been unable to agree on language for its reauthorization. Under TPA, Congress agrees to consider trade agreements which the President has negotiated, on a fast-track basis - without amendment and with limited debate. TPA facilitates the adoption of trade agreements in that it arguably reassures negotiating partners that their carefully crafted concessions will not be changed when Congress votes on the implementing legislation for the agreement. A key issue in current efforts to reauthorize TPA is the extent to which Congress will allow labor and environment provisions in new trade agreements considered under fast-track procedures. This report traces the congressional TPA-labor debate since 1994 when the previous fast-track authority expired, and compares H.R. 3005 (Thomas), the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2001, reported by the House Ways and Means Committee on October 16, 2001 (H.Rept. 107-249), H.R. 3019 (Rangel/Levin), the Comprehensive Trade Negotiating Authority Act of 2001, and H.R. 3009, the Senate-passed bill which includes TPA. H.R. 3005 was passed by the House on December 6, along party lines, by a vote of 215-214. The Senate bill, H.R. 3009, which includes TPA legislation along with trade adjustment assistance, the Andean Trade Preference Act, and extension of certain preferential trade treatment and other provisions, including the Generalized System of Preferences, was passed by the Senate on May 23, 2002, by a vote of 66 to 30. This report will be updated as events warrant. By way of record, this report also compares H.R. 3005 with H.R. 3019, which was offered as a substitute to H.R. 3005 in the House Ways and Means Committee.
Download or read book Trade Promotion Fast Track Authority written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major trade issue in the 107th Congress is whether or not Congress will approve authority for the President to negotiate trade agreements and submit the agreements for implementation under expedited legislative procedures (mandatory deadlines, limited debate, no amendment). The President must meet certain consultation and notification requirements. This authority, commonly called "fasttrack authority" or "trade promotion authority" (TPA), lapsed in 1994. This report analyzes a major TPA proposal, H.R. 3005, introduced by Representative Thomas, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and reported out of that Committee on October 16, 2001. Some comparisons are made between H.R. 3005 and the trade negotiating authority bill H.R. 3019, introduced by Representative Rangel, Ranking Member on the Ways and Means Committee. Congressional debate of fast-track/TPA legislation arrives at a period of growing global economic uncertainty and of a changing world trading system. Proposed TPA legislation reflects, in part, the shifting global trade environment. Sharp differences divide the 107th Congress on trade policy objectives. Both H.R. 3005 and H.R. 3019 are similar in their basic structure and in many provisions. However, they have major differences in their negotiating objectives, conditions for considering agreements under expedited procedures, congressional advisory bodies, and withdrawal of expedited procedures. Regarding labor provisions, H.R. 3005 aims to "promote respect for worker rights consistent with the International Labor Organization (ILO)," and to treat labor objectives "equally" with other negotiating objectives. H.R. 3019 aims to "promote enforcement of internationally recognized core labor standards by trading partners," and to provide for "all remedies to promote prompt and full compliance." H.R. 3005 gives greater attention to the environment than previous fast-track authority, and has some similarities with H.R. 3019. For example, both seek to ensure that parties do not fail to enforce environmental laws and to make failures subject to enforcement. Environmental provisions in H.R. 3019, however, are more extensive; e.g., the bill seeks clear exceptions from trade obligations for environmental measures (including those to implement multilateral environmental agreements). H.R. 3005 would establish the Congressional Oversight Group, a new body of congressional advisors on trade negotiations, and set out consultation and notification requirements for the executive branch. H.R. 3019 would not add a new body of advisors, but would require more consultation than H.R. 3005. Both bills would allow withdrawal of expedited procedures for an implementing bill, but under different circumstances. H.R. 3005 provides for withdrawal if the President fails to meet the consultation requirements. H.R. 3019 provides for withdrawal of expedited procedures before or during negotiations or before the President enters into an agreement, but does not require that a reason be specified.
Download or read book Trade Promotion Authority Fast Track Authority for Trade Agreements written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major trade issues in the 107th Congress (2001-2002) was whether Congress would approve trade promotion authority (TPA; formerly called fast-track authority) for trade agreements. Under these provisions, Congress agrees to consider legislation to implement a trade agreement under special legislative procedures that limit debate and allow no amendment. The President is required to consult with congressional committees during negotiation and notify Congress at major stages. This report gives background on the origin of TPA/fast-track legislation, trade agreements negotiated under such legislation in the past, the lapse of legislation in 1994, and attempts at renewal in the late 1990s. The report also follows TPA/fasttrack authority legislation as it developed during the 107th Congress. There were four major stages in the development of TPA legislation during the 107 Congress. First, after extensive debate on labor and the environment as trade negotiating objectives, the House passed a TPA bill (H.R. 3005) by a single vote (215-214) on December 6, 2001. Second, the Senate wrapped TPA into a comprehensive trade bill (H.R. 3009), with debate concentrated on health care subsidies under the trade adjustment assistance title of the bill, and approved the trade bill by a 66-30 vote on May 23, 2002. Third, the House considered a rule (H.Res. 450) that included broad trade language to match the scope of the Senateapproved bill. There was partisan disagreement on using the rule as a means to approve broad trade programs, and the House approved the rule on June 26, 2002, by another one-vote margin (216-215). Fourth, after some delays, conferees filed a report on trade bill H.R. 3009 on July 26, 2002. The House and Senate approved the conference report by votes of 215-212 and 64-34 respectively just before the summer recess. The President signed the bill into law (P.L. 107-210) on August 6, 2002. The TPA provisions in P.L. 107-210 cover tariff and nontariff agreements entered into before June 1, 2005 (possible 2-year extension). For expedited procedures to apply to legislation to implement a trade agreement, the agreement must “make progressâ€ŗ toward meeting the outlined negotiating objectives and satisfy other specified conditions. Any changes to trade remedy laws are subject to greater congressional scrutiny. The President must consult with congressional bodies, including the newly established Congressional Oversight Group. Congress can withdraw expedited procedures, if consultation requirements are not met. This report will not be updated.
Download or read book Trade Promotion Authority TPA and the Role of Congress in Trade Policy written by J. F. Hornbeck and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents background and analysis on the development of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which expired on July 1, 2007. The report also includes a summary of the major provisions under the recently expired authority and a discussion of the issues that have arisen in the debate over TPA renewal. It also explores the policy options available to Congress and will be updated as the congressional debate unfolds.
Download or read book Agriculture and Fast Track Or Trade Promotion Authority written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Promotion Authority and Fast track Negotiating Authority for Trade Agreements written by Carolyn C. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Role of the US Congress in Trade Agreements written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1974 the United States Congress has enacted several Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) acts to ensure speedy ratification of trade agreements in the United States, while maintaining a congressional hold on the objectives to be pursued by US negotiators. TPA defines the conditions and procedures for using a streamlined or expedited procedure, also known as the fast-track procedure, to vote in Congress on international trade agreements negotiated during a specific defined period of time. The current (2015) Trade Promotion Authority Act, which was finally passed in June 2015, sets out the rules for the expedited procedures applicable to any international agreement entered into by the US before 1 July 2018 (with possible extension up to 1 July 2021), covering inter alia the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership and any agreement stemming from the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. The TPA requirements in terms of negotiating objectives and consultation have constantly evolved to match the rising political need of Congress to exert greater control over the outcomes of US trade negotiations.
Download or read book Fast track Negotiating Authority for Trade Agreements and Trade Promotion Authority written by Carolyn C. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
