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 118 STAT. 822 PUBLIC LAW 108–274—JULY 13, 2004 (G) improving transparency, good governance, and political accountability; (H) expanding access to social services, education, and health services with a high priority given to addressing HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, other infectious diseases, and other public health problems; (I) promoting the role of women in social and economic development by reinforcing education and training and by assuring their participation in political and economic arenas; and (J) building the capacity of governments in sub Saha ran Africa to set and enforce a legal framework, as well as to enforce the rule of law; (6) negotiation of reciprocal trade agreements between the United States and sub Saharan African countries, with the overall goal of expanding trade across all of sub Saharan Africa; (7) the President seeking to negotiate, with interested eligible sub Saharan African countries, bilateral trade agree ments that provide investment opportunities, in accordance with section 2102(b)(3) of the Trade Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 3802(b)(3)); (8) efforts by the President to negotiate with the member countries of the Southern African Customs Union in order to provide the opportunity to deepen and make permanent the benefits of the Act while giving the United States access to the markets of these African countries for United States goods and services, by reducing tariffs and non tariff barriers, strengthening intellectual property protection, improving trans parency, establishing general dispute settlement mechanisms, and investor state and state to state dispute settlement mecha nisms in investment; (9) a comprehensive and ambitious trade agreement with the Southern African Customs Union, covering all products and sectors, in order to mature the economic relationship between sub Saharan African countries and the United States and because such an agreement would deepen United States economic and political ties to the region, lend momentum to United States development efforts, encourage greater United States investment, and promote regional integration and eco nomic growth; (10) regional integration among sub Saharan African coun tries and business partnerships between United States and African firms; and (11) economic diversification in sub Saharan African coun tries and expansion of trade beyond textiles and apparel. SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON RECIPROCITY AND REGIONAL ECO NOMIC INTEGRATION. It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the preferential market access opportunities for eligible sub Saharan African countries will be complemented and enhanced if those countries are implementing actively and fully, consistent with any remaining applicable phase in periods, their obligations under the World Trade Organization, including obligations under the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, the Agreement on the Application of Sani tary and Phytosanitary Measures, and the Agreement on Trade 19 USC 3701 note.

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