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 99 STAT. 1500

98 Stat. 3002, 3003,3005. 19 ubc 2411.

Effective date.

98 Stat. 3003. 19 USC 2412.

PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

solve these matters through bilateral consultations and multilateral negotiations, as well as through consultations under the provisions of the GATT; (3) after many years of frustrated discussions, the United States had no choice but to invoke the dispute settlement procedures of the GATT as the only remaining means of seeking redress for American producers and processors; (4) investigatory panels, established by the GATT to review United States complaints with respect to citrus, canned fruits, and raisins, concluded that European Communities subsidies and discriminatory tariffs had nullified and impaired rights of United States exporters and were in violation of the GATT and recommended that the European Communities take necessary steps to rectify the matters; (5) the European Communities has effectively and repeatedly prevented adoption by the GATT of each of these reports, most recently, the favorable report involving the 15-year-old citrus complaint; (6) on May 1, 1985, the President concluded that the GATT dispute settlement process with respect to the citrus complaint was terminated and, pursuant to section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, the President had to consider a subsequent course of action to redress the injury to United States citrus exporters; (,7) Qjj jyjjg 20, 1985, the President announced that a reasonable and appropriate course of action in response to the unwillingness of the European Communities to implement the unanimous finding of the GATT panel or to negotiate a mutually acceptable resolution of the citrus complaint is to withdraw an equivalent amount of concessions from imported European Communities pasta products and, in response, the European Communities notified the United States that the European Communities would retaliate by increasing the European Communities duties on United States lemon and walnut imports; (8) on July 19, 1985, the United States and the European Communities agreed to suspend until October 31, 1985, the tariff increases, in order to provide the European Communities with additional time to resolve the citrus complaint; and (9) despite this suspension, the European Communities has failed to present to the United States an acceptable proposal to resolve the citrus complaint, and effective November 1, 1985, the United States reinstated the pasta tariff increase, and in turn, the European Communities reinstated the lemon and walnut tariff increase. (b) The President shall take all appropriate and feasible action within the power of the Presidency (including, but not limited to, the actions described in section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2411)) to— (1) ensure a prompt and satisfactory resolution of all complaints regarding subsidies and discriminatory tariffs of the European (Communities which— (A) are set forth in petitions filed under section 302 of the Trade Act of 1974 by United States exporters of citrus, wheat flour, poultry, canned fruits, and raisins, and (B) are pending before the GATT on the date of enactment of this Act; and

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