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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 158
To increase United States jobs through greater United States exports to
Africa and Latin America, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY31, 2023
Mr. D
URBIN(for himself, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. COONS, and
Mr. C
ASSIDY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and re-
ferred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
A BILL
To increase United States jobs through greater United States
exports to Africa and Latin America, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Increasing American 4
Jobs Through Greater United States Exports to Africa 5
and Latin America Act of 2023’’. 6
SEC. 2. INVESTMENT, TRADE, AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRI-7
CA AND LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIB-8
BEAN. 9
(a) S
TRATEGYREQUIRED.— 10
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall establish 1
a comprehensive United States strategy for public 2
and private investment, trade, and development in 3
Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. 4
(2) F
OCUS OF STRATEGY .—The strategy re-5
quired by paragraph (1) shall focus on increasing ex-6
ports of United States goods and services to Africa 7
and Latin America and the Caribbean by 200 per-8
cent in real dollar value by the date that is 10 years 9
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 10
(3) C
ONSULTATIONS.—In developing the strat-11
egy required by paragraph (1), the President shall 12
consult with— 13
(A) Congress; 14
(B) each agency that is a member of the 15
Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee; 16
(C) the relevant multilateral development 17
banks, in coordination with the Secretary of the 18
Treasury and the respective United States Ex-19
ecutive Directors of such banks; 20
(D) each agency that participates in the 21
Trade Policy Staff Committee established; 22
(E) the President’s Export Council; 23
(F) each of the development agencies; 24
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(G) any other Federal agencies with re-1
sponsibility for export promotion or financing 2
and development; and 3
(H) the private sector, including busi-4
nesses, nongovernmental organizations, and Af-5
rican and Latin American and Caribbean dias-6
pora groups. 7
(4) S
UBMISSION TO CONGRESS .— 8
(A) S
TRATEGY.—Not later than 180 days 9
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 10
President shall submit to Congress the strategy 11
required by subsection (a). 12
(B) P
ROGRESS REPORT.—Not later than 3 13
years after the date of the enactment of this 14
Act, the President shall submit to Congress a 15
report on the implementation of the strategy re-16
quired by paragraph (1). 17
(b) S
PECIALAFRICA ANDLATINAMERICA AND THE 18
C
ARIBBEANEXPORTSTRATEGYCOORDINATORS.—The 19
President shall designate an individual to serve as Special 20
Africa Export Strategy Coordinator and an individual to 21
serve as Special Latin America and the Caribbean Export 22
Strategy Coordinator— 23
(1) to oversee the development and implementa-24
tion of the strategy required by subsection (a); and 25
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(2) to coordinate developing and implementing 1
the strategy with— 2
(A) the Trade Promotion Coordinating 3
Committee; 4
(B) the Assistant United States Trade 5
Representative for African Affairs or the Assist-6
ant United States Trade Representative for the 7
Western Hemisphere, as appropriate; 8
(C) the Assistant Secretary of State for 9
African Affairs or the Assistant Secretary of 10
State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, as ap-11
propriate; 12
(D) the Export-Import Bank of the United 13
States; 14
(E) the United States International Devel-15
opment Finance Corporation; and 16
(F) the development agencies. 17
(c) T
RADEMISSIONS TOAFRICA ANDLATINAMER-18
ICA AND THECARIBBEAN.—It is the sense of Congress 19
that, not later than one year after the date of the enact-20
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce and other 21
high-level officials of the United States Government with 22
responsibility for export promotion, financing, and devel-23
opment should conduct joint trade missions to Africa and 24
to Latin America and the Caribbean. 25
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(d) TRAINING.—The President shall develop a plan— 1
(1) to standardize the training received by 2
United States and Foreign Commercial Service offi-3
cers, economic officers of the Department of State, 4
and economic officers of the United States Agency 5
for International Development with respect to the 6
programs and procedures of the Export-Import 7
Bank of the United States, the United States Inter-8
national Development Finance Corporation, the 9
Small Business Administration, and the United 10
States Trade and Development Agency; and 11
(2) to ensure that, not later than one year after 12
the date of the enactment of this Act— 13
(A) all United States and Foreign Com-14
mercial Service officers that are stationed over-15
seas receive the training described in paragraph 16
(1); and 17
(B) in the case of a country to which no 18
United States and Foreign Commercial Service 19
officer is assigned, any economic officer of the 20
Department of State stationed in that country 21
receives that training. 22
(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 23
(1) D
EVELOPMENT AGENCIES .—The term ‘‘de-24
velopment agencies’’ means the United States De-25
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partment of State, the United States Agency for 1
International Development, the Millennium Chal-2
lenge Corporation, the United States International 3
Development Finance Corporation, the United 4
States Trade and Development Agency, the United 5
States Department of Agriculture, and relevant mul-6
tilateral development banks. 7
(2) M
ULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS .— 8
The term ‘‘multilateral development banks’’ has the 9
meaning given that term in section 1701(c)(4) of the 10
International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 11
262r(c)(4)) and includes the African Development 12
Foundation. 13
(3) T
RADE POLICY STAFF COMMITTEE .—The 14
term ‘‘Trade Policy Staff Committee’’ means the 15
Trade Policy Staff Committee established pursuant 16
to section 2002.2 of title 15, Code of Federal Regu-17
lations. 18
(4) T
RADE PROMOTION COORDINATING COM -19
MITTEE.—The term ‘‘Trade Promotion Coordinating 20
Committee’’ means the Trade Promotion Coordi-21
nating Committee established under section 2312 of 22
the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 23
4727). 24
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(5) UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COMMER -1
CIAL SERVICE.—The term ‘‘United States and For-2
eign Commercial Service’’ means the United States 3
and Foreign Commercial Service established by sec-4
tion 2301 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 5
(15 U.S.C. 4721). 6
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