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S 3123 114th Congress Senate

United Kingdom Trade Continuity Act

Official title: A bill to provide for the continuation with respect to the United Kingdom of existing commercial agreements between the United States and the European Union, t… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to provide for the continuation with respect to the United Kingdom of existing commercial agreements between the United States and the European Union, to encourage the President to expeditiously negotiate a new comprehensive bilateral trade agreement with the United Kingdom, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 29, 2016 Introduced by: Lee, Mike Republican · Utah See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance EuropeEuropean UnionLegislative rules and procedureTrade agreements and negotiationsUnited Kingdom
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 Latest action June 29, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

United Kingdom Trade Continuity Act

This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the United States supports the decision by the people of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union (EU).

The United States shall continue to comply with the terms of all existing commercial agreements between it and the EU governing commerce between the United States and the United Kingdom, unless specifically provided otherwise.

It is the sense of Congress that the President should initiate negotiations expeditiously with the United Kingdom to reach a final comprehensive bilateral trade agreement.

Trade authorities (fast track) procedures shall apply to a congressional bill implementing such a trade agreement.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
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Cotton, Tom
Arkansas · Jun 29, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3123: United Kingdom Trade Continuity Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3123/
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"S. 3123: United Kingdom Trade Continuity Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3123/.
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S. 3123, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3123/.
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