ANTI-DRUG ABUSE ACT OF 1986
TITLE VIII--TARIFF TREATMENT OF PRODUCTS OF UNCOOPERATIVE MAJOR DRUG PRODUCING OR DRUG-TRANSIT COUNTRIES
"SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the 'Narcotics Control Trade Act'.
ASEC. 802. TARIFF TREATMENT OF PRODUCTS OF UNCOOPERATIVE MAJOR
DRUG PRODUCING OR DRUG-TRANSIT COUNTRIES
(a) Required Action by President.--Subject to subsection
(b), for every major drug producing country and every major drug-transit
country, the President shall, on or after March 1, 1987, and March 1 of
each succeeding year, to the extent considered necessary by the President
to achieve the purposes of this title--
(1) deny to any or all of the products
of that country tariff treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences,
the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, or any other law providing preferential
tariff treatment;
(2) apply to any or all of the dutiable
products of that country an additional duty at a rate not to exceed 50
percent ad valorem or the specific rate equivalent;
(3) apply to one or more duty-free products
of that country a duty at a rate not to exceed 50 percent ad valorem; or
(4) take any combination of the actions
described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3).
(b) Certifications; Congressional Action.--(1) Subsection (a)
shall not apply with respect to a country if the President determines and
so certifies to the Congress, at the time of the submission of the report
required by section 481(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, that
during the previous year that country has cooperated fully with the United
States, or has taken adequate steps on its own, in preventing narcotic
and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances produced or processed,
in whole or in part, in such country or transported through such country,
from being sold illegally within the jurisdiction of such country to United
States Government personnel or their dependents or from being transported,
directly or indirectly, into the United States and in preventing and punishing
the laundering in that country of drug-related profits or drug-related
monies.
(2) In making the certification required by paragraph (1), the
President shall give foremost consideration to whether the actions of the
government of the country have resulted in the maximum reductions in illicit
drug production which were determined to be achievable pursuant to section
481(e)(4) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The President shall also
consider whether such government--
(A) has taken the legal and law enforcement
measures to enforce in its territory, to the maximum extent possible, the
elimination of illicit cultivation and the suppression of illicit manufacture
of and traffic in narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled
substances, as evidenced by seizures of such drugs and substances and of
illicit laboratories and the arrest and prosecution of violators involved
in the traffic in such drugs and substances significantly affecting the
United States; and
(B) has taken the legal and law enforcement
steps necessary to eliminate, to the maximum extent possible, the laundering
in that country of drug-related profits or drug-related monies, as evidence
by
(i)
the enactment and enforcement of laws prohibiting such conduct,
(ii) the willingness of such government to enter into mutual legal assistance
agreements with the United States governing (but not limited to) money
laundering, and
(iii) the degree to which such government otherwise cooperates with United
States law enforcement authorities on anti-money laundering efforts.
(3) Subsection (a) shall apply to a country without regard to
paragraph (1) of this subsection if the Congress enacts, within 30 days
of continuous session after receipt of a certification under paragraph
(1), a joint resolution disapproving the determination of the President
contained in that certification.
(4) If the President takes action under subsection (a), that
action shall remain in effect until--
(A) the President makes the certification
under paragraph (1), a period of 30 days of continuous session of Congress
elapses, and during that period the Congress does not enact a joint resolution
of disapproval; or
(B) the President submits at any other
time a certification of the matters described in paragraph (1) with respect
to that country, a period of 30 days of continuous session of Congress
elapses, and during that period the Congress does not enact a joint resolution
of disapproving the determination contained in that certification.
(5) For the purpose of expediting the consideration and enactment
of joint resolutions under paragraphs (3) and (4)--
(A) a motion to proceed to the consideration
of any such joint resolution after it has been reported by the Committee
on Ways and Means shall be treated as highly privileged in the House of
Representatives; and
(B) a motion to proceed to the consideration
of any such joint resolution after it has been reported by the Committee
on Finance shall be treated as privileged in the Senate.
(c) Duration of Action.--The action taken by the President under
subsection (a) shall apply to the products of a foreign country that are
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, during the period
that such action is in effect.