Number: RS22154
Title: WTO Decisions and Their Effect in U.S. Law
Authors: Jeanne J. Grimmett, American Law Division 
Abstract: S. 364 (Rockefeller) would amend the URAA to require that Congress expressly approve any regulatory modification or final rule proposed to implement an adverse WTO ruling and would rescind certain regulatory actions that have already entered into effect. Both S. 364 and H.R. 708 (English) would establish a congressional advisory commission to review WTO decisions in light of enumerated statutory criteria. H.R. 2714 (Barrett) would require the President to delay or reverse implementation of adverse WTO decisions on the use of "zeroing" in antidumping proceedings until the United States has negotiated certain WTO clarifications regarding the practice. H.R. 6530 (Rangel) provides that the Commerce Department's 2006 regulatory modification involving "zeroing" issued in response to an adverse WTO decision would terminate as of March 1, 2009 (and the prior departmental practice would then apply), unless and until the department issued a revised methodology under procedures laid out in the bill.
Pages: 6
Date: July 28, 2008