19 U.S.C. § 3535 — Review of participation in WTO

(a) Report on operation of WTO. The first report under section 3534 of this title after the five-year period beginning when the WTO Agreement enters into force for the United States, and the first report after every later five-year period, must analyze the Agreement’s effects on United States interests, the costs and benefits of participation, and the value of continued participation.

(b) Congressional disapproval. (1) Congress’s approval of the WTO Agreement under section 3511(a) of this title ends only if a joint resolution described in subsection (c) becomes law under paragraph (2). (2)(A) The requirements are met if Congress adopts and sends the resolution to the President before the end of the 90-day period, excluding days described in section 2194(b), beginning when Congress receives the subsection (a) report, and, if the President vetoes it, each House votes to override the veto by the later of the last day of that 90-day period or the last day of the 15-day period, excluding days described in section 2194(b), beginning when Congress receives the veto message. (B) The resolution may be introduced any time after the President sends the report to Congress and before that 90-day period ends.

(c) Joint resolutions. (1) “Joint resolution” means only a resolution of both Houses whose matter after the resolving clause says: “That the Congress withdraws its approval, provided under section 101(a) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, of the WTO Agreement as defined in section 2(9) of that Act.” This section does not define those quoted terms. (2)(A) Any House member may introduce the resolution in that House. (B) Subject to this subsection, subsections (b), (d), (e), and (f) of section 2192 apply to these resolutions as they apply to resolutions under that section. (C) If the committee receiving the resolution has not reported it by the end of the 45th day after introduction, excluding days described in section 2194(b), it is automatically discharged and the resolution goes to the proper calendar. (D) The Senate may not consider it unless the Finance Committee reported it or was discharged; the House may not consider it unless the Ways and Means Committee reported it or was discharged. (E) A House motion to proceed may be made only on the second legislative day after the member announces the intention to make it. (3) Neither House may consider a resolution, other than one received from the other House, if that House already adopted one under this section.

(d) Rules of House and Senate. Congress enacted this section as an exercise of each House’s rulemaking power, so it is part of each House’s rules and its procedures override inconsistent rules. Each House keeps its constitutional right to change its rules at any time in the same way and to the same extent as any other rule.