H.Res. 705: Urging the President to resolve the disparate treatment of direct and indirect taxes presently provided by the World Trade Organization.
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H.Res. 705: Urging the President to resolve the disparate treatment of direct and indirect taxes presently provided by the World Trade Organization.
108th Congress · introduced 2004-07-07 · Foreign Trade and International Finance · Latest: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2004-07-07 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: 1 recorded vote in our records. Latest: House roll call 372 (2004): On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, HRES705 (2004-07-14), Passed. See all
- Where it stands now: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Urging the President to resolve the disparate treatment of direct and indirect taxes presently provided by the World Trade Organization.
Plain summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Urges the President to report to Congress: (1) annually on progress in pursuing multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations to eliminate specified trade barriers described in the Trade Act of 2002; and (2) early in the 109th Congress on proposed alternatives to the disparate treatment of direct and indirect taxes presently provided by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other proposals for redressing the tax disadvantage to U.S. businesses and workers, either by changes to the U.S. corporate income tax or by the adoption of an alternative, including assessment of the impact of corporate tax rates, a system based on the principal of territoriality, and a border adjustment for exports such as is already allowed by the WTO for indirect taxes.
Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House without amendment), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Urging the President to resolve the disparate treatment of direct and indirect taxes presently provided by the World Trade Organization.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House without amendment)
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Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3] · 5 cosponsors
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Recorded votes
- House roll call 372 (2004): On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, HRES705 (2004-07-14): Passed
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- Resolution
- A formal statement or decision by a legislative body. Simple resolutions often only express an opinion or set rules for one chamber; they do not become law.
- Roll-call vote
- A vote where each member's position is recorded by name, so the public can see how every member voted. "Yea" means yes, "Nay" means no, "Present" means the member was there but did not take a side.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House without amendment)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-108hres705.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/108/hres>
Record fed-us-cong108-hres705 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong108 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong108