A bill to prohibit the importation of any article that is produced, manufactured, or grown in Burma.

Prohibits the importation into the United States of any Burmese products until the President determines and certifies to Congress that the State Peace and Development Council in Burma has made progress in: (1) reversing gross violations of internationally-recognized human rights and worker rights; (2) implementing democratic government; and (3) cooperating with U.S. counter-narcotics efforts.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 926 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 926

     To prohibit the importation of any article that is produced, 
                    manufactured, or grown in Burma.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2001

Mr. Harkin (for himself, Mr. Helms, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Hollings, and Mrs. 
  Feinstein) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
     To prohibit the importation of any article that is produced, 
                    manufactured, or grown in Burma.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The International Labor Organization (ILO), invoking an 
        extraordinary constitutional procedure for the first time in 
        its 82-year history, adopted in 2000 a resolution calling on 
        the State Peace and Development Council to take concrete 
        actions to end forced labor in Burma.
            (2) In this resolution, the ILO recommended that 
        governments, employers, and workers organizations take 
        appropriate measures to ensure that their relations with the 
        State Peace and Development Council do not abet the system of 
        forced or compulsory labor in that country, and that other 
        international bodies reconsider any cooperation they may be 
        engaged in with Burma and, if appropriate, cease as soon as 
        possible any activity that could abet the practice of forced or 
        compulsory labor.

SEC. 2. UNITED STATES SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL ACTION TO END FORCED 
              LABOR AND THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR IN BURMA.

    (a) Trade Ban.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, until such time as the President determines and certifies 
        to Congress that Burma has met the conditions described in 
        paragraph (2), no article that is produced, manufactured, or 
        grown in Burma may be imported into the United States.
            (2) Conditions described.--The conditions described in this 
        paragraph are the following:
                    (A) The State Peace and Development Council in 
                Burma has made measurable and substantial progress in 
                reversing the persistent pattern of gross violations of 
                internationally-recognized human rights and worker 
                rights, including the elimination of forced labor and 
                the worst forms of child labor.
                    (B) The State Peace and Development Council in 
                Burma has made measurable and substantial progress 
                toward implementing a democratic government including--
                            (i) releasing all political prisoners; and
                            (ii) deepening, accelerating, and bringing 
                        to a mutually-acceptable conclusion the 
                        dialogue between the State Peace and 
                        Development Council (SPDC) and democratic 
                        leadership within Burma (including Aung San Suu 
                        Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) 
                        and leaders of Burma's ethnic peoples).
                    (C) The State Peace and Development Council in 
                Burma has made measurable and substantial progress 
                toward full cooperation with United States counter-
                narcotics efforts pursuant to the terms of section 
                570(a)(1)(B) of Public Law 104-208, the Foreign 
                Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
                Appropriations Act, 1997.
    (b) Effective Date.--The provisions of this section shall apply to 
any article entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
after the 15th day after the date of enactment of this Act.
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