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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2712 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To limit the authority of the President to modify duty rates for national |
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| 6 | 6 | | security reasons and to limit the authority of the United States Trade |
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| 7 | 7 | | Representative to impose certain duties or import restrictions, and for |
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| 8 | 8 | | other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | APRIL8, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. G |
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| 12 | 12 | | OTTHEIMERintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 13 | 13 | | Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on |
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| 14 | 14 | | Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each |
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| 15 | 15 | | case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of |
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| 16 | 16 | | the committee concerned |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To limit the authority of the President to modify duty rates |
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| 19 | 19 | | for national security reasons and to limit the authority |
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| 20 | 20 | | of the United States Trade Representative to impose |
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| 21 | 21 | | certain duties or import restrictions, and for other pur- |
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| 22 | 22 | | poses. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reclaiming Congres-4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | sional Trade Authority Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF PRESIDENT TO 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | MODIFY DUTY RATES FOR NATIONAL SECU-2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | RITY REASONS. 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (a) A |
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| 35 | 35 | | UTHORITYTOMODIFYDUTYRATES FORNA-4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | TIONALSECURITYREASONS.—Notwithstanding any other 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | provision of law and except as provided in subsection (c), 6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | the President may proclaim a new or additional national 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | security duty on an article imported into the United States 8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | only if— 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (1) the President, not later than 30 calendar 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | days after making the national security determina-11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | tion that is the basis for the new or additional duty, 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | submits to the International Trade Commission the 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | duty proposal, including— 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (A) a description of each article for which 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | the President recommends a new or additional 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | duty; 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (B) the proposed new or additional duty 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | rate; and 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (C) the proposed duration of that rate; 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (2) the President, not later than 15 calendar 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | days after submitting the duty proposal under para-22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | graph (1), submits to Congress a request for author-23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ization to modify duty rates in accordance with that 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | duty proposal, including— 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (A) a report by the Secretary of Defense 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | explaining why the proposal is in the interest of 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | national security; and 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (B) a report by the International Trade 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Commission assessing the likely impact of the 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | proposal on the economy of the United States 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | as a whole and specific industry sectors; 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (3) the President consults with the Committee 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | on Finance and the Committee on Armed Services of 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | and the Committee on Armed Services of the House 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | of Representatives regarding the duty proposal 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | under paragraph (1), including— 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (A) the short-term and long-term goals of 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | the proposal; 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (B) an action plan to achieve those goals; 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | and 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (C) plans to consult with officials of coun-18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | tries impacted by the proposal to resolve any 19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | issues relating to the proposal; and 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (4) a joint resolution of approval under sub-21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | section (b) is enacted. 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (b) J |
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| 83 | 83 | | OINTRESOLUTION OFAPPROVAL.— 23 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (1) J |
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| 85 | 85 | | OINT RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL DE -24 |
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| 86 | 86 | | FINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘joint resolu-25 |
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| 90 | 90 | | tion of approval’’ means a joint resolution the sole 1 |
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| 91 | 91 | | matter after the resolving clause of which is as fol-2 |
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| 92 | 92 | | lows: ‘‘That Congress authorizes the President to 3 |
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| 93 | 93 | | proclaim duty rates as set forth in the request of the 4 |
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| 94 | 94 | | President on lllllllllll ’’, with the 5 |
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| 95 | 95 | | blank space being filled with the date of the request 6 |
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| 96 | 96 | | submitted under subsection (a)(2). 7 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (2) I |
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| 98 | 98 | | NTRODUCTION.—A joint resolution of ap-8 |
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| 99 | 99 | | proval may be introduced in either House of Con-9 |
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| 100 | 100 | | gress by any Member during the 15-legislative day 10 |
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| 101 | 101 | | period beginning on the date on which the President 11 |
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| 102 | 102 | | submits to Congress the material set forth in sub-12 |
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| 103 | 103 | | section (a)(2). 13 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (3) E |
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| 105 | 105 | | XPEDITED PROCEDURES .—The provisions 14 |
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| 106 | 106 | | of subsections (b) through (f) of section 152 of the 15 |
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| 107 | 107 | | Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192) apply to a joint 16 |
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| 108 | 108 | | resolution of approval to the same extent that such 17 |
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| 109 | 109 | | subsections apply to joint resolutions under such 18 |
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| 110 | 110 | | section 152. 19 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (4) R |
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| 112 | 112 | | ULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 20 |
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| 113 | 113 | | AND SENATE.—This subsection is enacted by Con-21 |
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| 114 | 114 | | gress— 22 |
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| 115 | 115 | | (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 23 |
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| 116 | 116 | | of the Senate and the House of Representa-24 |
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| 117 | 117 | | tives, respectively, and as such is deemed a part 25 |
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| 121 | 121 | | of the rules of each House, respectively, but ap-1 |
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| 122 | 122 | | plicable only with respect to the procedure to be 2 |
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| 123 | 123 | | followed in that House in the case of a joint 3 |
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| 124 | 124 | | resolution of approval, and supersedes other 4 |
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| 125 | 125 | | rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 5 |
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| 126 | 126 | | with such rules; and 6 |
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| 127 | 127 | | (B) with full recognition of the constitu-7 |
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| 128 | 128 | | tional right of either House to change the rules 8 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (so far as relating to the procedure of that 9 |
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| 130 | 130 | | House) at any time, in the same manner, and 10 |
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| 131 | 131 | | to the same extent as in the case of any other 11 |
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| 132 | 132 | | rule of that House. 12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (c) E |
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| 134 | 134 | | XCEPTION FOR URGENTACTION.—Notwith-13 |
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| 135 | 135 | | standing the requirements of subsection (a), the President 14 |
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| 136 | 136 | | may proclaim a new or additional national security duty 15 |
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| 137 | 137 | | for one period of 120 calendar days if the President deter-16 |
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| 138 | 138 | | mines that urgent action is necessary— 17 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (1) to address a national emergency; 18 |
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| 140 | 140 | | (2) for the prevention or mitigation of, or to re-19 |
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| 141 | 141 | | spond to, loss of life or property; 20 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (3) to address an imminent threat to health or 21 |
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| 143 | 143 | | safety; 22 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (4) for the enforcement of criminal laws; or 23 |
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| 145 | 145 | | (5) for national security. 24 |
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| 149 | 149 | | (d) NATIONALSECURITYDUTYDEFINED.—In this 1 |
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| 150 | 150 | | section, the term ‘‘national security duty’’ means the fol-2 |
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| 151 | 151 | | lowing: 3 |
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| 152 | 152 | | (1) A duty proclaimed pursuant to— 4 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (A) section 232 of the Trade Expansion 5 |
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| 154 | 154 | | Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1862); 6 |
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| 155 | 155 | | (B) the Trading with the Enemy Act (50 7 |
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| 156 | 156 | | U.S.C. 4301 et seq.); or 8 |
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| 157 | 157 | | (C) the International Emergency Economic 9 |
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| 158 | 158 | | Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.). 10 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (2) A duty proclaimed pursuant to any other 11 |
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| 160 | 160 | | provision of law if in reports or other public state-12 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ments regarding the duty the President or another 13 |
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| 162 | 162 | | cabinet-level official identifies national security as a 14 |
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| 163 | 163 | | significant reason for proclaiming the duty. 15 |
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| 164 | 164 | | SEC. 3. CONDITIONS ON USE OF AUTHORITY BY UNITED 16 |
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| 165 | 165 | | STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE TO IMPOSE 17 |
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| 166 | 166 | | DUTIES OR OTHER IMPORT RESTRICTIONS. 18 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (a) I |
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| 168 | 168 | | NGENERAL.—Section 301(c) of the Trade Act 19 |
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| 169 | 169 | | of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2411(c)) is amended by adding at the 20 |
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| 170 | 170 | | end the following: 21 |
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| 171 | 171 | | ‘‘(7)(A) The Trade Representative may take ac-22 |
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| 172 | 172 | | tion pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) only if— 23 |
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| 173 | 173 | | ‘‘(i) the Trade Representative submits to 24 |
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| 174 | 174 | | the International Trade Commission a proposal 25 |
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| 178 | 178 | | for duties or other import restrictions under 1 |
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| 179 | 179 | | that paragraph, including— 2 |
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| 180 | 180 | | ‘‘(I) a description of each article cov-3 |
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| 181 | 181 | | ered by that proposal; 4 |
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| 182 | 182 | | ‘‘(II) the proposed new or additional 5 |
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| 183 | 183 | | duty rate; and 6 |
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| 184 | 184 | | ‘‘(III) the proposed duration of that 7 |
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| 185 | 185 | | rate; 8 |
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| 186 | 186 | | ‘‘(ii) the Trade Representative submits to 9 |
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| 187 | 187 | | Congress a notification of intent to impose du-10 |
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| 188 | 188 | | ties or import restrictions under that para-11 |
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| 189 | 189 | | graph, including— 12 |
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| 190 | 190 | | ‘‘(I) the proposal submitted under 13 |
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| 191 | 191 | | clause (i); and 14 |
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| 192 | 192 | | ‘‘(II) a report by the International 15 |
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| 193 | 193 | | Trade Commission assessing the likely im-16 |
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| 194 | 194 | | pact of the proposal on the economy of the 17 |
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| 195 | 195 | | United States as a whole and specific in-18 |
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| 196 | 196 | | dustry sectors; 19 |
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| 197 | 197 | | ‘‘(iii) after submitting the notification 20 |
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| 198 | 198 | | under clause (ii), the Trade Representative 21 |
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| 199 | 199 | | consults with the Committee on Finance of the 22 |
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| 200 | 200 | | Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means 23 |
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| 201 | 201 | | of the House of Representatives and, if the pro-24 |
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| 202 | 202 | | posal affects agricultural products, the Com-25 |
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| 206 | 206 | | mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 1 |
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| 207 | 207 | | of the Senate and the Committee on Agri-2 |
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| 208 | 208 | | culture of the House of Representatives; 3 |
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| 209 | 209 | | ‘‘(iv) a period of 60 calendar days, begin-4 |
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| 210 | 210 | | ning on the date on which the Trade Represent-5 |
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| 211 | 211 | | ative has completed consultations under clause 6 |
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| 212 | 212 | | (iii), has passed; and 7 |
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| 213 | 213 | | ‘‘(v) no disapproval resolution under sub-8 |
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| 214 | 214 | | paragraph (B) is passed during the period de-9 |
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| 215 | 215 | | scribed in clause (iv). 10 |
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| 216 | 216 | | ‘‘(B)(i) In this subparagraph, the term ‘dis-11 |
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| 217 | 217 | | approval resolution’ means a joint resolution the sole 12 |
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| 218 | 218 | | matter after the resolving clause of which is as fol-13 |
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| 219 | 219 | | lows: ‘That implementation of the proposal by the 14 |
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| 220 | 220 | | Trade Representative to impose duties or other im-15 |
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| 221 | 221 | | port restrictions submitted to Congress on 16 |
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| 222 | 222 | | llllllllllllllll is not in the 17 |
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| 223 | 223 | | interest of the United States.’, with the blank space 18 |
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| 224 | 224 | | being filled with the date on which the Trade Rep-19 |
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| 225 | 225 | | resentative submitted to Congress the material de-20 |
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| 226 | 226 | | scribed in subsection (A)(ii). 21 |
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| 227 | 227 | | ‘‘(ii) Paragraph (2) of section 106(b) of the Bi-22 |
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| 228 | 228 | | partisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Ac-23 |
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| 229 | 229 | | countability Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4205(b)) applies 24 |
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| 230 | 230 | | to a disapproval resolution under this subparagraph 25 |
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| 234 | 234 | | to the same extent that such paragraph applies to 1 |
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| 235 | 235 | | a procedural disapproval resolution under such sec-2 |
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| 236 | 236 | | tion 106(b).’’. 3 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (b) C |
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| 238 | 238 | | ONFORMINGAMENDMENT.—Paragraph (1)(B) 4 |
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| 239 | 239 | | of such section is amended by inserting ‘‘subject to para-5 |
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| 240 | 240 | | graph (7),’’ before ‘‘impose duties’’. 6 |
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