                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 12--TRADE ACT OF 1974
 
      SUBCHAPTER IV--TRADE RELATIONS WITH COUNTRIES NOT RECEIVING 
                       NONDISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT
 
             Part 1--Trade Relations With Certain Countries
 
Sec. 2437. Procedure for Congressional approval or disapproval 
        of extension of nondiscriminatory treatment and Presidential 
        reports
        

(a) Transmission of nondiscriminatory treatment documents to Congress

    Whenever the President issues a proclamation under section 2434 of 
this title extending nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of any 
foreign country, he shall promptly transmit to the House of 
Representatives and to the Senate a document setting forth the 
proclamation and the agreement the proclamation proposes to implement, 
together with his reasons therefor.

(b) Transmission of freedom of emigration documents to Congress

    The President shall transmit to the House of Representatives and the 
Senate a document containing the initial report submitted by him under 
section 2432(b) or 2439(b) of this title with respect to a nonmarket 
economy country. On or before December 31 of each year, the President 
shall transmit to the House of Representatives and the Senate, a 
document containing the report required by section 2432(b) or 2439(b) of 
this title as the case may be, to be submitted on or before such 
December 31.

(c) Effective date of proclamations and agreements; disapproval of 
        reports

    (1) In the case of a document referred to in subsection (a) of this 
section, the proclamation set forth in the document may become effective 
and the agreement set forth in the document may enter into force and 
effect only if a joint resolution described in section 2191(b)(3) of 
this title that approves of the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment 
to the products of the country concerned is enacted into law.
    (2) In the case of a document referred to in subsection (b) of this 
section which contains a report submitted by the President under section 
2432(b) or 2439(b) of this title with respect to a nonmarket economy 
country, if, before the close of the 90-day period beginning on the day 
on which such document is delivered to the House of Representatives and 
to the Senate, a joint resolution described in section 2192(a)(1)(B) of 
this title is enacted into law that disapproves of the report submitted 
by the President with respect to such country, then, beginning with the 
day after the end of the 60-day period beginning with the date of the 
enactment of such resolution of disapproval, (A) nondiscriminatory 
treatment shall not be in force with respect to the products of such 
country, and the products of such country shall be dutiable at the rates 
set forth in rate column numbered 2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States, (B) such country may not participate in any program 
of the Government of the United States which extends credit or credit 
guarantees or investment guarantees, and (C) no commercial agreement may 
thereafter be concluded with such country under this subchapter. If the 
President vetoes the joint resolution, the joint resolution shall be 
treated as enacted into law before the end of the 90-day period under 
this paragraph if both Houses of Congress vote to override such veto on 
or before the later of the last day of such 90-day period or the last 
day of the 15-day period (excluding any day described in section 2194(b) 
of this title) beginning on the date the Congress receives the veto 
message from the President.

(Pub. L. 93-618, title IV, Sec. 407, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2063; Pub. 
L. 100-418, title I, Sec. 1214(j)(4), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1158; 
Pub. L. 101-382, title I, Sec. 132(b)(3), (c)(1), Aug. 20, 1990, 104 
Stat. 646.)

                       References in Text

    The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, referred to in 
subsec. (c)(2), is not set out in the Code. See Publication of 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule note set out under section 1202 of this 
title.


                               Amendments

    1990--Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 101-382, Sec. 132(b)(3)(A), added par. 
(1) and struck out former par. (1) which read as follows: ``In the case 
of a document referred to in subsection (a) of this section (other than 
a document to which paragraph (2) applies), the proclamation set forth 
therein may become effective and the agreement set forth therein may 
enter into force and effect only if the House of Representatives and the 
Senate adopt, by an affirmative vote of a majority of those present and 
voting in each House, a concurrent resolution of approval (under the 
procedures set forth in section 2191 of this title) of the extension of 
nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of the country concerned.''
    Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 101-382 struck out par. (2) and redesignated 
par. (3) as (2), and substituted ``a joint resolution described in 
section 2192(a)(1)(B) of this title is enacted into law that 
disapproves'' for ``either the House of Representatives or the Senate 
adopts, by an affirmative vote of a majority of those present and voting 
in that House, a resolution of disapproval (under the procedures set 
forth in section 2192 of this title)'' and ``the end of the 60-day 
period beginning with the date of the enactment'' for ``the date of the 
adoption'' and inserted at end ``If the President vetoes the joint 
resolution, the joint resolution shall be treated as enacted into law 
before the end of the 90-day period under this paragraph if both Houses 
of Congress vote to override such veto on or before the later of the 
last day of such 90-day period or the last day of the 15-day period 
(excluding any day described in section 2194(b) of this title) beginning 
on the date the Congress receives the veto message from the President.'' 
Former par. (2) related to effective date of proclamation extending 
nondiscriminatory treatment to products of a foreign country and of 
agreement proclamation proposed to implement and related to resolution 
of disapproval of such extension as to certain countries.
    Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 101-382, Sec. 132(b)(3)(B), redesignated 
par. (3) as (2).
    1988--Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 100-418 substituted ``Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States'' for ``Tariff Schedules of the 
United States''.


                    Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 100-418 effective Jan. 1, 1989, and applicable 
with respect to articles entered on or after such date, see section 
1217(b)(1) of Pub. L. 100-418, set out as an Effective Date note under 
section 3001 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2192, 2194 of this title.
