[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8006 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8006
To establish an expedited petition process for the addition and removal
of certain products from the lists of products eligible or ineligible
for beneficial treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences,
and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 15, 2024
Mrs. Miller of West Virginia introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
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A BILL
To establish an expedited petition process for the addition and removal
of certain products from the lists of products eligible or ineligible
for beneficial treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Expedited Review of Products for GSP
Act''.
SEC. 2. EXPEDITED PRODUCT COVERAGE PETITION PROCESS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the United States International Trade Commission
shall publish in the Federal Register and on a publicly available
internet website of the Commission a notice requesting interested
parties to submit to the Commission, during the 60-day period beginning
on the date of such publication, a petition--
(1) to add one or more headings or subheadings of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to, or remove
one or more such headings or subheadings from, the list of
articles that may not be designated as an eligible article for
duty-free treatment pursuant to section 503(b) of the Trade Act
of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2463(b)); or
(2) to provide duty-free treatment to one or more headings
or subheadings of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule under the
Generalized System of Preferences that are--
(A) not restricted under such section 503(b) from
designation as an eligible article; and
(B) not otherwise designated an eligible article by
the President pursuant to section 501 or section 503(a)
of such Act (19 U.S.C. 2461; 2463(a)).
(b) Contents of Petition.--A petition submitted pursuant to
subsection (a) shall be eligible for consideration under the process
provided by this section only if such petition includes--
(1) the name and address of the petitioner;
(2) the 8-digit subheading level or levels under the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule with respect to which the petition
is submitted; and
(3) for a petition submitted pursuant to subsection (a), a
certification that the petitioner is an interested party and a
brief description of the manner and extent to which the
petitioner is a likely beneficiary with respect to the addition
or removal of the heading or subheading level concerned.
(c) Publication of Petitions.--As soon as practicable after the 60-
day period described in subsection (a), and not later than 30 days
after the end of such period, the Commission shall publish on a
publicly available internet website of the Commission the contents of
each petition received.
(d) Opportunity for Public Comment.--During the 45-day period
beginning on the date of the publication of petitions pursuant to
subsection (c), the Commission shall publish in the Federal Register
and on a publicly available internet website of the Commission a notice
requesting members of the public to submit comments to the Commission
with respect to the changes sought by the petitions.
(e) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Commission shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report on each eligible petition submitted
pursuant to the process provided by this section that includes, with
respect to the article or articles concerned in each such petition--
(1) data from the 5 most recent calendar years for which
complete information is available on--
(A) sources of imports;
(B) values of imports;
(C) market share of imports (to the extent
practical); and
(D) domestic production (to the extent practical);
(2) any information on whether the product is used as an
input in United States manufacturing; and
(3) a summary of information provided in the form of
comments rebutting or objecting to the petition.
(f) Authorities.--
(1) Procedures.--The Commission shall prescribe and publish
in the Federal Register and on a publicly available internet
website of the Commission all procedures to be complied with by
members of the public submitting petitions.
(2) Judicial review precluded.--The exercise of functions
under this Act shall not be subject to judicial review.
(g) Interested Party Defined.--In this section, the term
``interested party'' has the definition given such term in section 771
of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1677), except that an interested
party under this section may not include--
(1) any person described in paragraph (9)(A) of such
section, other than a person that is an importer or a business
association of importers; or
(2) any person described in paragraph (9)(B) or (9)(G) of
such section.
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