(C) may not be conducted before the judge who imprisoned the individual for disobedience of an order pursuant to subsection (a). 5-YEAR EXTENSION OF NONDISCRIMINATORY JUNE 21, 1989.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI, from the Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 1594] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1594) to extend nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of the Peoples' Republic of Hungary for 5 years, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Page 2, line 9 insert the following before the period: ; except that, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph BACKGROUND Section 5 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951 (P.L. 49-50) directed the President to withdraw or suspend most-favorednation (MFN) status for the Soviet Union and all countries under Communist control. This action was prompted by the outbreak of the Korean war and the fact that many of those countries were giving support to North Korea and China. Title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 (the so-called Jackson-Vanik amendment, described more fully below) authorizes the President to extend MFN treatment to Communist countries when certain conditions relating to the freedom of emigration of their citizens have been met. |