00 Introduced in House May 28, 2002
Declares that is is the sense of the Congress that: (1) any attempt by a U.S. trading partner to burden or restrict the foreign trade of the United States through the use of unfounded claims (such as those made by South Korea regarding chemicals in American grapefruits) against the health or safety of American products will be considered a nontariff trade barrier and will not be tolerated; (2) the use of any such barrier shall be considered as damaging to future U.S. trade relations with the offending country; and (3) the United States and its trading partners should seek to establish internationally accepted testing and inspection methods in order to eliminate the prospect of such nontariff trade barriers in the future.