European Union

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any extension of fast-track negotiating authority to the executive branch for the expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) be tied solely to negotiations with the European Union on creation of a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Area(TAFTA).

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1996

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that any extension of fast-track negotiating authority to the executive branch for the expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) be tied to, and only to, negotiations with the European Union for the creation of a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA).

A. Vernon Weaver, of Arkansas, to be the Representative of the United States of America to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

United States · United States Senate · 14 June 1996

To prohibit imports into the United States of meat products from the European Union until certain unfair trade barriers are removed, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1996

Declares that it is U.S. policy that: (1) the European Union's prohibition on the importation into European Union (E.U.) member states of meat from animals treated with hormones and the European Community's Third Country Meat Directive are nontariff trade barriers; and (2) it is in the public interest to remove such barriers to exports of U.S. meat products. Directs the President to prohibit the entry, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption, into the customs territory of the United States of all meat products of E.U. member states. Declares that such prohibition shall remain in effect until the Secretary of Agriculture and the United States Trade Representative have submitted to the Congress their joint determination that the E.U. has removed such prohibition, and that U.S. meat products are permitted access to their markets.