A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the Republic of India's closed market to United States soda ash exports

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Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) India's tariffs on U.S. soda ash exports are excessive and designed solely to exclude unfairly U.S. producers from the Indian market; and (2) President Clinton, the United States Trade Representative (USTR), and the Government of India should use the mid-September visit to Washington of India's Prime Minister Vajpayee as an opportunity to address and settle the soda ash dispute by allowing U.S. soda ash access to the Indian market through the American Natural Soda Ash Corporation (ANSAC) joint venture at tariff reduced rates consistent with World Trade Organization normalization levels. Calls on the President and the USTR, in the absence of such a settlement, promptly to begin the process of suspending India's Generalized System of Preferences benefits.

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