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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 816
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
MARCH3, 2025
Mr. D
URBIN(for himself, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. CASSIDY, and
Mr. C
OONS) 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 2025’’. 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; 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 APPROPRIATE CONGRES -8
SIONAL COMMITTEES.— 9
(A) S
TRATEGY.—Not later than 200 days 10
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 11
President shall submit to the appropriate con-12
gressional committees the strategy required by 13
subsection (a). 14
(B) P
ROGRESS REPORT.—Not later than 3 15
years after the date of the enactment of this 16
Act, the President shall submit to the appro-17
priate congressional committees a report on the 18
implementation of the strategy required by 19
paragraph (1). 20
(b) S
PECIALAFRICA ANDLATINAMERICA AND THE 21
C
ARIBBEANEXPORTSTRATEGYCOORDINATORS.—The 22
Secretary of Commerce shall designate an official of the 23
Department of Commerce to serve as Special Africa Ex-24
port Strategy Coordinator and an official of the Depart-25
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ment to serve as Special Latin America and the Caribbean 1
Export Strategy Coordinator— 2
(1) to oversee the development and implementa-3
tion of the strategy required by subsection (a); 4
(2) to coordinate developing and implementing 5
the strategy with— 6
(A) the Trade Promotion Coordinating 7
Committee; 8
(B) the Director General for the United 9
States and Foreign Commercial Service and As-10
sistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Mar-11
kets; 12
(C) the Assistant United States Trade 13
Representative for African Affairs or the Assist-14
ant United States Trade Representative for the 15
Western Hemisphere, as appropriate; 16
(D) the Assistant Secretary of State for 17
African Affairs or the Assistant Secretary of 18
State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, as ap-19
propriate; 20
(E) the Administrator of the Foreign Agri-21
cultural Service of the Department of Agri-22
culture; 23
(F) the Export-Import Bank of the United 24
States; 25
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(G) the United States International Devel-1
opment Finance Corporation; and 2
(H) the development agencies; and 3
(3) to consider and reflect on the impact of the 4
promotion of exports of goods and services from the 5
United States on the economies of and employment 6
opportunities in the countries importing those goods 7
and services, with a view toward improving secure 8
supply chains, avoiding economic disruptions, and 9
stabilizing economic growth through a trade and ex-10
port strategy. 11
(c) T
RADEMISSIONS TOAFRICA ANDLATINAMER-12
ICA AND THECARIBBEAN.—It is the sense of Congress 13
that, not later than one year after the date of the enact-14
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce and other 15
high-level officials of the United States Government with 16
responsibility for export promotion, financing, and devel-17
opment should conduct joint trade missions to Africa and 18
to Latin America and the Caribbean. 19
(d) T
RAINING.—The President shall develop a plan— 20
(1) to standardize the training received by 21
United States and Foreign Commercial Service offi-22
cers, economic officers of the Department of State, 23
and economic officers of the United States Agency 24
for International Development with respect to the 25
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programs and procedures of the Export-Import 1
Bank of the United States, the United States Inter-2
national Development Finance Corporation, the 3
Small Business Administration, and the United 4
States Trade and Development Agency; and 5
(2) to ensure that, not later than one year after 6
the date of the enactment of this Act— 7
(A) all United States and Foreign Com-8
mercial Service officers that are stationed over-9
seas receive the training described in paragraph 10
(1); and 11
(B) in the case of a country to which no 12
United States and Foreign Commercial Service 13
officer is assigned, any economic officer of the 14
Department of State stationed in that country 15
receives that training. 16
(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 17
(1) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -18
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-19
mittees’’ means— 20
(A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, 21
and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Com-22
merce, Science, and Transportation, the Com-23
mittee on Finance, and the Committee on For-24
eign Relations of the Senate; and 25
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(B) the Committee on Energy and Com-1
merce, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 2
the Committee on Ways and Means of the 3
House of Representatives. 4
(2) D
EVELOPMENT AGENCIES .—The term ‘‘de-5
velopment agencies’’ means the United States De-6
partment of State, the United States Agency for 7
International Development, the Millennium Chal-8
lenge Corporation, the United States International 9
Development Finance Corporation, the United 10
States Trade and Development Agency, the United 11
States Department of Agriculture, and relevant mul-12
tilateral development banks. 13
(3) M
ULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS .— 14
The term ‘‘multilateral development banks’’ has the 15
meaning given that term in section 1701(c)(4) of the 16
International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 17
262r(c)(4)) and includes the African Development 18
Foundation. 19
(4) T
RADE POLICY STAFF COMMITTEE .—The 20
term ‘‘Trade Policy Staff Committee’’ means the 21
Trade Policy Staff Committee established pursuant 22
to section 2002.2 of title 15, Code of Federal Regu-23
lations. 24
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(5) TRADE PROMOTION COORDINATING COM -1
MITTEE.—The term ‘‘Trade Promotion Coordinating 2
Committee’’ means the Trade Promotion Coordi-3
nating Committee established under section 2312 of 4
the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 5
4727). 6
(6) U
NITED STATES AND FOREIGN COMMER -7
CIAL SERVICE.—The term ‘‘United States and For-8
eign Commercial Service’’ means the United States 9
and Foreign Commercial Service established by sec-10
tion 2301 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 11
(15 U.S.C. 4721). 12
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