H.Con.Res.49 - Expressing the sense of Congress that all trade agreements the United States enters into, should provide reasonable access and collaboration of each nation involved in such an agreement, for the purpose of search and recovery activities relating to members of the United States Armed Forces still missing and unaccounted for from prior wars or military conflicts.
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Latest Action · September 19, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
This concurrent resolution expresses Congress's view that future U.S. trade agreements should include provisions requiring partner nations to cooperate in searching for and recovering American military personnel missing from past wars. The resolution specifically highlights the need for reasonable access and collaboration from trading partners to support the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which currently must negotiate recovery efforts on a case-by-case basis with individual countries. The measure points to the significant number of unaccounted-for service members: approximately 1,566 from the Vietnam War, nearly 71,000 from World War II, and about 7,400 from the Korean War. This is a non-binding expression of congressional intent rather than a law, meaning it signals Congress's position on trade policy but does not create new requirements or allocate funding. The resolution was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which handles trade-related legislation.
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