Speech #1060000945

After months of Imploring the U.S. Trade Representative to do something about the imposition of the unfairly administered tax. then Ambassador Kantor agreed that the New Brunswick PST was a violation of NAFTA. and that the United States would include the PST issue in the NAFTA dispute settlement process. But despite this explicit assurance. the issue was not. in fact. brought before NAFTAs dispute settlement process. prompting Congress in 1996. to include an amendment I offered to immigration reform legislation calling for the U.S. Trade Representative to take this action without further delay. But. it took three years for a resolution. and even then. the resolution was not crafted by the USTR.