Uruguay Round Agreements Act
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The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) was an Act of Congress in the United States that implemented in U.S. law the provisions agreed upon at the Uruguay Round of negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,'
the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four
An Act
To approve and implement the trade agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round
of multilateral trade negotiations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
Sec. 101. Approval and entry into force of the Uruguay Round Agreements.
Sec. 102. Relationship of the agreements to United States law and State law.
Sec. 103. Implementing actions in anticipation of entry into force; regulations.
Sec. 111. Tariff modifications.
Sec. 112. Implementation of Schedule XX provisions on ship repairs.
Sec. 113. Liquidation or reliquidation and refund of duty paid on certain entries.
Sec. 114. Modifications to the HTS.
Sec. 115. Consultation and layover requirements for, and effective date of, proclaimed actions.
Sec. 116. Effective date.
Sec. 121. Definitions.
Sec. 122. Implementation of Uruguay Round Agreements.
Sec. 123. Dispute settlement panels and procedures.
Sec. 124. Annual report on the WTO.
Sec. 125. Review of participation in the WTO.
Sec. 126. Increased transparency.
Sec. 127. Access to the WTO dispute settlement process.
Sec. 128. Advisory committee participation.
Sec. 129. Administrative action following WTO panel reports.
Sec. 130. Effective date.
Sec. 131. Working party on worker rights.
Sec. 132. Implementation of rules of origin work program.
Sec. 133. Membership in WTO of boycotting countries.
Sec. 134. Africa trade and development policy.
Sec. 135. Objectives for extended negotiations.
Sec. 136. Repeal of tax on imported perfumes; drawback of tax on distilled spirits used in perfume manufacture.
Sec. 137. Certain nonrubber footwear.
Sec. 138. Effective date.
Sec. 201. Reference.
Sec. 211. Action with respect to petitions.
Sec. 212. Petition and preliminary determination.
Sec. 213. De minimis dumping margin.
Sec. 214. Critical circumstances.
Sec. 215. Provisional measures.
Sec. 216. Conditions on acceptance of suspension agreements.
Sec. 217. Termination of investigation.
Sec. 218. Special rules for regional industries.
Sec. 219. Determination of weighted average dumping margin.
Sec. 220. Review of determinations.
Sec. 221. Review determinations.
Sec. 222. Definitions.
Sec. 223. Export price and constructed export price.
Sec. 224. Normal value.
Sec. 225. Currency conversion.
Sec. 226. Proprietary and nonproprietary information.
Sec. 227. Opportunity for comment by consumers and industrial users.
Sec. 228. Public notice and explanation of determinations.
Sec. 229. Sampling and averaging; determination of weighted average dumping margin.
Sec. 230. Anticircumvention.
Sec. 231. Evidence.
Sec. 232. Antidumping petitions by third countries.
Sec. 233. Conforming amendments.
Sec. 234. Application to Canada and Mexico.
Sec. 251. Countervailable subsidy.
Sec. 261. Repeal of section 303.
Sec. 262. Imposition of countervailing duties.
Sec. 263. De minimis countervailable subsidy.
Sec. 264. Determination of countervailable subsidy rate.
Sec. 265. Assessment of countervailing duty.
Sec. 266. Nature of countervailable subsidy.
Sec. 267. Definition of developing and least-developed country.
Sec. 268. Upstream subsidies.
Sec. 269. Sampling and averaging; determination of countervailable subsidy rate.
Sec. 270. Conforming amendments.
Sec. 271. Special rules for injury investigations for certain section 303 countervailing duty orders and investigations.
Sec. 281. Subsidies enforcement.
Sec. 282. Review of subsidies agreement.
Sec. 283. Amendments to title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930.
Sec. 291. Effective date.
Sec. 301. Investigations, determinations, and recommendations by International Trade Commission.
Sec. 302. Action by President after determination of import injury.
Sec. 303. Miscellaneous amendments.
Sec. 304. Effective date.
Sec. 311. Identification of foreign anticompetitive practices.
Sec. 312. Consultation with committees.
Sec. 313. Identification of countries that deny protection of intellectual property rights.
Sec. 314. Amendments to title III of the Trade Act of 1974.
Sec. 315. Objectives in intellectual property.
Sec. 316. Effective date.
Sec. 321. Unfair practices in import trade.
Sec. 322. Effective date.
Sec. 331. Textile product integration.
Sec. 332. Amendment to section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956.
Sec. 333. Textile transshipments.
Sec. 334. Rules of origin for textile and apparel products.
Sec. 335. Effective date.
Sec. 341. Monitoring and enforcement of the agreement on government procurement.
Sec. 342. Conforming amendments.
Sec. 343. Reciprocal competitive procurement practices.
Sec. 344. Effective date.
Sec. 351. Technical barriers to trade.
Sec. 352. Effective date.
Sec. 401. Section 22 amendments.
Sec. 402. Cheese and chocolate crumb imports.
Sec. 403. Meat Import Act.
Sec. 404. Administration of tariff-rate quotas.
Sec. 405. Special agricultural safeguard authority.
Sec. 411. Export programs.
Sec. 412. Other conforming amendments.
Sec. 421. Authority for certain actions under Article XXVIII.
Sec. 422. Tobacco imports.
Sec. 423. Tobacco proclamation authority.
Sec. 424. Report to Congress on access to Canadian dairy and poultry markets.
Sec. 425. Study of milk marketing order system.
Sec. 426. Additional program funding.
Sec. 431. Sanitary and phytosanitary measures.
Sec. 432. International standard-setting activities.
Sec. 441. The Federal Seed Act.
Sec. 451. General effective date.
Sec. 501. Definition.
Sec. 511. Rental rights in computer programs.
Sec. 512. Civil penalties for unauthorized fixation of and trafficking in sound recordings and music videos of live musical performances.
Sec. 513. Criminal penalties for unauthorized fixation of and trafficking in sound recordings and music videos or live musical performances.
Sec. 514. Restored works.
Sec. 521. Definition of abandoned.
Sec. 522. Nonregistrability of misleading geographic indications for wines and spirits.
Sec. 523. Effective date.
Sec. 531. Treatment of inventive activity.
Sec. 532. Patent term and internal priority.
Sec. 533. Patent rights.
Sec. 534. Effective dates and application.
Sec. 601. Generalized System of Preferences.
Sec. 602. U.S. insular possessions.
Sec. 611. Reimbursements from customs user fee account.
Sec. 612. Merchandise processing fees.
Sec. 621. Conforming amendments.
Sec. 700. Amendment of 1986 Code and table of contents.
Sec. 701. Withholding on distributions of Indian casino profits to tribal members.
Sec. 702. Voluntary withholding on certain Federal payments and on unemployment compensation.
Sec. 711. Treatment of subpart F and section 936 income of taxpayers using annualized method for estimated tax.
Sec. 712. Time for payments and deposits of certain taxes.
Sec. 713. Reduction in rate of interest paid on certain corporate overpayments.
Sec. 721. Extension of earned income tax credit to military personnel stationed outside the United States.
Sec. 722. Certain nonresident aliens ineligible for earned income tax credit.
Sec. 723. Income of prisoners disregarded in determining earned income tax credit.
Sec. 731. Treatment of excess pension assets used for retiree health benefits.
Sec. 732. Rounding rules for cost-of-living adjustments.
Sec. 733. Increase in inclusion of social security benefits paid to nonresidents.
Sec. 741. Partnership distributions of marketable securities.
Sec. 742. Taxpayer identification numbers required at birth.
Sec. 743. Extension of Internal Revenue Service user fees.
Sec. 744. Modification of substantial understatement penalty for corporations participating in tax shelters.
Sec. 745. Modification of authority to set terms and conditions for savings bonds.
Sec. 750. Short title.
Sec. 751. Minimum funding requirements.
Sec. 752. Limitation on changes in current liability assumptions.
Sec. 753. Anticipation of bargained benefit increases.
Sec. 754. Modification of quarterly contribution requirement.
Sec. 755. Exceptions to excise tax on nondeductible contributions.
Sec. 761. Minimum funding requirements.
Sec. 762. Limitation on changes in current liability assumptions.
Sec. 763. Anticipation of bargained benefit increases.
Sec. 764. Modification of quarterly contribution requirement.
Sec. 766. Prohibition on benefit increases where plan sponsor is in bankruptcy.
Sec. 767. Single sum distributions.
Sec. 768. Adjustments to lien for missed minimum funding contributions.
Sec. 769. Special funding rules for certain plans.
Sec. 771. Reportable events.
Sec. 772. Certain information required to be furnished to PBGC.
Sec. 773. Enforcement of minimum funding requirements.
Sec. 774. Computation of additional PBGC premium.
Sec. 775. Disclosure to participants.
Sec. 776. Missing participants.
Sec. 777. Modification of maximum guarantee for disability benefits.
Sec. 778. Procedures to facilitate distribution of termination benefits.
Sec. 781. Effective dates.
Sec. 801. Pioneer preferences.
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