The U.S. Congress plans to hear the issue of canceling the Jackson-Vanik amendment by this summer, said Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee.

Margelov addressed legislators and experts at a high-profile roundtable devoted to the problems in the context of Russia’s coming accession to the WTO.

The administration of Barack Obama is currently considering ways to recruit the necessary support in Congress, Margelov said.