[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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