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 102 STAT. 1124

PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988 (i) adequate and effective substantive norms and standards for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, and (ii) dispute settlement provisions and enforcement procedures, is without prejudice to other complementary initiatives undertaken in other international organizations; and (D) to supplement and strengthen standards for protection and enforcement in existing international intellectual property conventions administered by other international organizations, including their expansion to cover new and emerging technologies and elimination of discrimination or unreasonable exceptions or preconditions to protection. (11) FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT.—

(A) The principal negotiating objectives of the United States regarding foreign direct investment are— (i) to reduce or to eliminate artificial or trade-distorting barriers to foreign direct investment, to expand the principle of national treatment, and to reduce unreasonable barriers to establishment; and (ii) to develop internationaly agreed rules, including dispute settlement procedures, which— (I) will help ensure a free flow of foreign direct investment, and (II) will reduce or eliminate the trade distortive effects of certain trade-related investment measures. (B) In pursuing the negotiating objectives described in subparagraph (A), United States negotiators shall take into account legitimate United States domestic objectives including, but not limited to, the protection of legitimate health or safety, essential security, environmental, consumer or employment opportunity interests and the law and regulations related thereto. (12) SAFEGUARDS.—The principal negotiating objectives of the United States regarding safeguards are— (A) to improve and expand rules and procedures covering safeguard measures; (B) to ensure that safeguard measures are— (i) transparent, (ii) temporary, (iii) degressive, and (iv) subject to review and termination when no longer necessary to remedy injury and to facilitate adjustment; and (C) to require notification of, and to monitor the use by, GATT (Contracting Parties of import relief actions for their domestic industries. (13) SPECIFIC BARRIERS.—The principal negotiating objective of the United States regarding specific barriers is to obtain competitive opportunities for United States exports in foreign markets substantially equivalent to the competitive opportunities afforded foreign exports to United States markets, including the reduction or elimination of specific tariff and nontariff trade barriers, particularly—

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