Text: House Measure Would Lower Tariffs on Vietnam Products
(House Joint Resolution 51 has bipartisan support)

A resolution that would approve the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to products from Vietnam received bipartisan backing in the House of Representatives as it was introduced June 12.

House Majority Leader Richard Armey (Republican of Texas) joined with House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (Democrat of Missouri) and fellow Republican Philip Crane of Illinois to submit House Joint Resolution 51 (H.J. Res. 51) to the House of Representatives.

H.J. Res. 51 was forwarded to the House Ways and Means Committee for consideration by that panel's subcommittee on Trade, which Crane chairs.

The measure is part of the process by which a bilateral trade agreement between Washington and Hanoi would be brought into effect, and is in response to a June 8 Bush administration message to both the Senate and the House of Representatives on granting Vietnam nondiscriminatory treatment in trade.

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (Democrat of South Dakota) and Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (Republican of Mississippi) introduced parallel legislation in the Senate on June 11.

Following is the text of the proposed resolution:

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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress approves the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment... (Introduced in the House)

HJ 51 IH
107th CONGRESS
1st Session

H. J. RES. 51

Approving the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment with respect to the products of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 12, 2001

Mr. ARMEY (for himself, Mr. GEPHARDT, and Mr. CRANE) (all by request): introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

JOINT RESOLUTION

Approving the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment with respect to the products of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress approves the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment with respect to the products of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam transmitted by the President to the Congress on June 8, 2001.

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