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 PUBLIC LAW 100-418-AUG. 23, 1988

102 STAT. 1255

(3)(A) On the first day after the date of enactment of this Act on which the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade allows any country to impose a fee described in paragraph (1), the President shall submit to the Congress, and publish in the Federal Register, a written statement certifying such allowance. (B) On the first day after the date of enactment of this Act on which any foreign country described in paragraph (1)(B) consents to the imposition of such a fee by the United States, the President shall submit to the Congress, and publish in the Federal Register, a written statement certifying such consent. (4)If(A) the President does not submit to the Congress the written statement described in paragraph (3)(A) before the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and (B) the President determines on such date that the fee imposed by the amendment made by subsection (b) is not in the national economic interest, the President shall submit to the Congress, and publish in the Federal Register, written notice of such determination on such

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(5)(A) Any disapproval resolution that is introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives within the 90-day period beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act shall, for purposes of section 152 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192), be treated as a joint resolution described in section 152(a)(1)(A) of such Act. (B) For purposes of this part, the term "disapproval resolution" means a joint resolution of the two Houses of the Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: "That the Congress disapproves of the determination made by the President under section 1428(a)(4)(A) of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.". (b) IMPOSITION OF FEE.—Chapter 5 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2391, et seq.), as amended by the preceding section of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEC. 287. IMPOSITION OF ADDITIONAL FEE.

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"(a) In addition to any other fee imposed by law, there is hereby imposed a fee on all articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in the customs territory of the United States during any fiscal year. '(b)(1) The rate of the fee imposed by subsection (a) shall be a uniform ad valorem rate proclaimed by the President that is equal to the lesser of^ "(A) 0.15 percent, or "(B) the percentage that is sufficient to provide the funding necessary to— "(i) carry out the provisions of chapters 2 and 3, and "(ii) repay any advances made under section 286(e). "(2) The President shall issue a proclamation setting forth the President of U.S. rate of the fee imposed by subsection (a) by no later than the date that is 15 days before the first date on which a fee is imposed under subsection (a). "(3)(A) For each fiscal year succeeding the first fiscal year in President of U.S. which a fee is imposed under subsection (a), the President shall issue

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