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 98 STAT. 3048

PUBLIC LAW 98-573—OCT. 30, 1984 (5) the United States winemaking industry has the capacity and the ability to export substantial volumes of wine and an increase in United States wine exports will create new jobs, improve this Nation's balance of trade, and otherwise strengthen the national economy, (b) The purposes of this title are— (1) to provide wine consumers with the greatest possible choice of wines from wine-producing countries; (2) to encourage the initiation of an export promotion program to develop, maintain, and expand foreign markets for United States wine; and (3) to achieve greater access to foreign markets for United States wine and grape products through the reduction or elimination of tariff barriers and nontariff barriers to (or other distortions of) trade in wine.

19 USC 2802.

SEC. 903. DEFINITIONS.

For purposes of this title— (1) The term "Committees" means the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate. (2) The term "grape product" means grapes and any product (other than wine) made from grapes, including, but not limited to, raisins and grape juice, whether or not concentrated. (3) The term "major wine trading country" means any foreign country, or group of foreign countries, designated as such under section 904. (4) The phrase "nontariff barrier to (or other distortion of)", in the context of trade in United States wine, includes any measure implemented by the government of a major wine trading country that either gives a competitive advantage to the wine industry of that country or restricts the importation of United States wine into that country. (5) The term "Trade Representative" means the United States Trade Representative. (6) The term "United States wine" means wine produced within the customs territory of the United States. (7) The term "wine" means any fermented alcoholic beverage that— (A) is made from grapes or other fruit; (B) contains not less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume and not more than 24 percent alcohol by volume, including all dilutions and mixtures thereof by whatever process produced; and (C) is for nonindustrial use. 19 USC 2803.

SEC. 904. DESIGNATION OF MAJOR WINE TRADING COUNTRIES.

(a) The Trade Representative shall designate as a major wine trading country each foreign country, or group of foreign countries represented as an economic union, that, in the judgment of the Trade Representative— (1) is a potential significant market for United States wine; and (2) maintains tariff barriers or nontariff barriers to (or other distortions of) trade in United States wine. (b) In deciding, for purposes of subsection (a)(2), whether a foreign country or group of countries maintains nontariff barriers to (or

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