Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2021

Summary

Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2021 This bill reauthorizes and revises specified U.S. trade programs and provisions. Specifically, the bill extends through January 1, 2027, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which provides duty-free treatment to products imported from designated beneficiary countries. The bill makes various changes to the GSP, including by (1) adding human rights, environmental, and other criteria for designation as a beneficiary developing country; (2) requiring an assessment of how the GSP supports worker and gender rights; and (3) requiring a study on rules of origin and GSP utilization rates. Additionally, the bill provides through December 31, 2023, and retroactively applies to 120 days before this bill's enactment, temporary duty suspensions or reductions to eligible imported products. This authorization is commonly known as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB). The last version of the MTB was enacted in September 2018 and the temporary treatment for those products listed in the MTB expired on December 31, 2020. The bill also extends the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 for two future MTB cycles (one in 2022 and one in 2025). This extension allows the U.S. International Trade Commission to conduct the MTB petition, review, and recommendation process for those additional cycles. The bill extends customs user fees through June 21, 2031.

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Timeline

1. 22 June 2021

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

   Source: Committee

2. 22 June 2021

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 22 June 2021

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 22 June 2021

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 22 June 2021 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 22 June 2021

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 22 June 2021

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Sponsors

• KEVIN BRADY · R · Sponsor
• Vern Buchanan · R · Sponsor
• Devin Nunes · R · Sponsor
• Tom Rice · R · Sponsor
• Darin LaHood · R · Sponsor
• Rep. Arrington, Jodey C. [R-TX-19] · R · Sponsor
• A. Ferguson · R · Sponsor
• Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4] · R · Sponsor
• Rep. Miller, Carol D. [R-WV-1] · R · Sponsor
• Adrian Smith · R · Sponsor
• Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-16] · R · Sponsor
• David Schweikert · R · Sponsor
• Jackie Walorski · R · Sponsor
• Brad Wenstrup · R · Sponsor
• Lloyd Smucker · R · Sponsor
• Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8] · R · Sponsor
• Tom Reed · R · Sponsor
• Kevin Hern · R · Sponsor
• · hswm00 · Standing

Related records

• related to → Generalized System of Preferences and Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Modernization Act of 2021