19 U.S.C. § 3103 — Investigation of foreign telecommunications trade barriers

(a) The Trade Representative^* must investigate to identify priority foreign countries. The investigation must finish no later than 5 months after August 23, 1988.

(b) In deciding which countries are priority foreign countries, the Trade Representative must consider, among other relevant factors: (1) the nature and importance of acts, policies, and practices that deny United States firms mutually beneficial market opportunities for telecommunications products and services; (2) actual and potential economic benefits foreign firms receive from open access to the United States market; (3) the possible size of the country’s market for those United States products and services; (4) the potential to increase United States exports directly or by creating a useful precedent; and (5) measurable progress toward ending the objectionable acts, policies, or practices.

(c) The Trade Representative may, at any time and after considering those factors, revoke a country’s priority identification or identify another country as a priority foreign country if available information shows that action is appropriate. The Trade Representative must include in the semiannual report to Congress under section 2419(3) a detailed explanation for revoking any identification.

(d) No later than 30 days after completing the investigation, the United States Trade Representative must send the President and appropriate congressional committees a report on it.