19 U.S.C. § 2514 — Expansion of the coverage of the Agreement

(a) Overall negotiating objective. In the renegotiations required by article XXIV(7) of the Agreement^*, the President must seek more open and fair access to foreign markets and the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of devices that distort trade or commerce connected with government purchasing. The overall goal is to maximize the United States' economic benefit by maintaining and expanding foreign markets for United States farm, industrial, mining, and commercial products; developing fair and equal market opportunities; and promoting open, nondiscriminatory world trade. The President must consider the assessment in the report required by section 2516(a).

(b) Sector negotiating objectives. Consistent with subsection (a), and as far as feasible, the President must seek, for appropriate product sectors, export opportunities for United States products in developed countries^* that are equivalent to the opportunities the United States provides, considering all trade barriers and other distortions affecting each sector.

(c) Independent verification objective. The President must seek to establish, in the article XXIV(7) renegotiation, an independent system for checking information that Agreement parties give the Committee on Government Procurement under article XIX(5).

(d) Reports on negotiations. (1) If the President decides during the renegotiations that progress is unsatisfactory and that, within 12 months after they begin, they probably will not expand the Agreement to cover purchases by the developed countries' government entities that are the main purchasers in appropriate product sectors, the President must report that decision to the congressional committees listed in section 2512(c)(1). Considering subsections (a) and (b) and the factors section 2512(c) requires, the President must also report suitable actions for seeking reciprocity with those countries in those sectors for government purchasing. (2) Considering the factors section 2512(c) requires, the President may recommend legislation that could bar uncovered United States Government entities from buying products of those countries. (3) Each presidential annual report under section 163(a) of the Trade Act of 1974 made after July 26, 1979 must state any actions the President considered appropriate to establish reciprocity in appropriate product sectors with major industrial countries for government purchasing.

(e) Extension of nondiscrimination and national treatment. Before using section 2511's waiver authority for purchasing not covered by the Agreement when the Agreement takes effect for the United States, the President must follow the private-sector and congressional consultation rules in section 135 and title I, chapter 6 of the Trade Act of 1974.