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PUBLIC LAW 107-210—AUG. 6, 2002 116 STAT. 1013 (3) REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL LITERATURE.— In preparing the assessment, the Commission shall review available economic assessments regarding the agreement, including literature regarding any substantially equivalent proposed agreement, and shall provide in its assessment a description of the analyses used and conclusions drawn in such literature, and a discussion of areas of consensus and divergence between the various analyses and conclusions, including those of the Commission regarding the agreement. SEC. 2105. IMPLEMENTATION OF TRADE AGREEMENTS. (a) IN GENERAL. — (1) NOTIFICATION AND SUBMISSION.—Any agreement entered into under section 2103(b) shall enter into force with respect to the United States if (and only if)— (A) the President, at least 90 calendar days before the day on which the President enters into the trade agreement, notifies the House of Representatives and the Senate of the President's intention to enter into the agreement, and promptly thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the Federal Register; (B) within 60 days after entering into the agreement, the President submits to the Congress a description of those changes to existing laws that the President considers would be required in order to bring the United States into compliance with the agreement; (C) after entering into the agreement, the President submits to the Congress, on a day on which both Houses of Congress are in session, a copy of the final legal text of the agreement, together with— (i) a draft of an implementing bill described in section 2103(b)(3); (ii) a statement of any administrative action proposed to implement the trade agreement; and (iii) the supporting information described in paragraph (2); and (D) the implementing bill is enacted into law. (2) SUPPORTING INFORMATION.—The supporting information required under paragraph (l)(C)(iii) consists of— (A) an explanation as to how the implementing bill and proposed administrative action will change or affect existing law; and (B) a statement— (i) asserting that the agreement makes progress in achieving the applicable purposes, policies, priorities, and objectives of this title; and (ii) setting forth the reasons of the President regarding— (I) how and to what extent the agreement makes progress in achieving the applicable purposes, policies, and objectives referred to in clause (i); (II) whether and how the agreement changes provisions of an agreement previously negotiated; (III) how the agreement serves the interests of United States commerce; 19 USC 3805. President. Federal Register, publication.