Sec. 2. Sense of Congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— more open trade and investment relationships with allies of the United States serve to strengthen the economy of the United States, improve the well-being of the people of the United States, and advance the strategic interests of the United States; agreements to reduce or eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the United States and its allies will foster mutually beneficial economic relationships that advance the economic interests of workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all sizes in the United States; the shared values and long history of the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom present an opportunity to deepen the mutually beneficial economic relationship between those countries and further expand prosperity for the citizens of those countries; a high-standard, comprehensive trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom would help achieve those aims and be in the national interest of the United States; the efforts of the United States–United Kingdom Trade and Investment Working Group and the bilateral negotiations initiated by President Donald Trump have laid groundwork toward a comprehensive trade agreement;
The United States–United Kingdom Dialogue on the Future of Atlantic Trade initiated by President Joe Biden continues longstanding efforts to improve economic cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom; the robust labor and environmental protections in the United Kingdom reduce the risk of regulatory arbitrage that undercuts workers and businesses in the United States; the USMCA, which was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, set high standards in North America with respect to labor rights, the environment, intellectual property, non-market practices, and services, and those standards should inform future negotiations; trade agreements with foreign trading partners that share the values and ambition of the United States offer an opportunity to build on the USMCA and set high international standards across many important policy areas; any trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom must uphold the agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom signed on April 10, 1998 (commonly known as the Good Friday Agreement ), and support continued peace and stability in Ireland and Northern Ireland; and to effectively pursue comprehensive trade negotiations with the United Kingdom for purposes of a trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, Congress must grant new negotiating authority to the President, which should— enable the swift negotiation and passage through Congress of such an agreement; and be narrowly tailored to provide clear direction to the executive branch of the United States Government.
In this section, the term USMCA means the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada, which is— attached as an Annex to the Protocol Replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement with the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada, done at Buenos Aires on November 30, 2018, as amended by the Protocol of Amendment to the Agreement Between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada, done at Mexico City on December 10, 2019; and approved by Congress under section 101(a)(1) of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement Implementation Act ( 19 U.S.C. 4511(a) ).
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