PRINTER'S NO. 2087

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE RESOLUTION

No. 207 Session of 1998

        INTRODUCED BY PUNT, THOMPSON, WHITE, BELL, RHOADES, O'PAKE,
           MUSTO, WENGER, TOMLINSON, WOZNIAK AND GERLACH, JUNE 10, 1998

        REFERRED TO INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, JUNE 10, 1998

                                  A RESOLUTION

     1  Calling on the Federal Government to take all necessary and
     2     appropriate action to ensure foreign nations establish and
     3     maintain open and competitive markets for United States
     4     exports.

     5     WHEREAS, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania benefits
     6  significantly from the exporting of goods and services to
     7  foreign markets; and
     8     WHEREAS, The United States Trade Representative has reported
     9  in the National Trade Estimate Report on numerous barriers in
    10  foreign markets to United States exports, including exports of
    11  agricultural commodities, automobiles, consumer photographic
    12  film and paper, semiconductors and steel products; and
    13     WHEREAS, The United States Trade Representative engaged over
    14  the last several years in an intensive investigation of the
    15  Japanese distribution system and its impact on United States
    16  exports and determined that market barriers exist to certain
    17  United States exports; and
    18     WHEREAS, Pennsylvania companies have experienced unreasonable
    19  quality assurance requirements for their products going to

     1  foreign markets and complicated distribution processes when
     2  goods are unloaded at foreign ports; and
     3     WHEREAS, These trade practices are not reciprocated in the
     4  United States as barriers impeding foreign imports, and these
     5  unfair business requirements and restrictions on market access
     6  in Japan and other foreign countries affect companies, workers
     7  and the economy of this Commonwealth; therefore be it
     8     RESOLVED, That the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     9  call on the Federal Government to take all necessary and
    10  appropriate action to ensure that Japan and other foreign
    11  nations establish and maintain open competitive markets for
    12  United States exports; and be it further
    13     RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
    14  each member of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation, the
    15  United States Trade Representative, the Japanese Ambassador to
    16  the United States and the President of the United States.










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