To provide for the multilateral negotiation of Western Hemisphere environmental, labor, and agricultural standards, to implement as United States negotiating objectives in any free trade area negotiations pursuant to the Free Trade Agreement for the Americas certain threshold protections regarding enforceable worker rights, agricultural standards, and environmental quality, and to implement a corresponding, comprehensive multilateral dispute resolution mechanism to investigate, adjudicate, and render binding, enforceable judgments against any unfair trade practices arising within the Western Hemisphere free trade area, including those involving the systematic denial or practical nullification of certain threshold protections of worker rights, agricultural standards, and environmental quality.
Fair International Standards in Trade for the Americas Act of 1995 (sic) - States that the purposes and objectives of any free-trade area trade agreement in furtherance of the proposed Free Trade Agreement for the Americas include the following principal negotiating objectives: (1) specified worker rights, standards and protection; (2) environmental quality and protection; (3) identification of the systematic denial or practical nullification of worker rights and environmental quality as unfair trade practices; and (4) a comprehensive dispute resolution process meeting specified requirements.
Instructs the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish an interagency committee to provide technical consultation services if a multilateral commission is established for comprehensive dispute resolution.
States that the President's authority to enter into free-trade area trade agreements may be exercised only if such agreements reflect the provisions of this Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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