[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 18, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2581]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1501. Mr. GRASSLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for 
Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to 
establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and 
report on economic security, science, research, innovation, 
manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain 
resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. REPORT ON ACHIEVING SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPARENCY.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection shall submit to Congress a report that--
       (1) assesses how limited supply chain visibility hinders 
     the ability of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to identify 
     and conduct enforcement actions with respect to articles 
     imported in violation of the customs and trade laws of the 
     United States, including articles produced with forced labor 
     or with respect to which unfair subsidies were provided;
       (2) identifies the types of information U.S. Customs and 
     Border Protection would require to achieve supply chain 
     transparency;
       (3) identifies the parties who would be required to submit 
     those types of information to U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection;
       (4) assesses how U.S. Customs and Border Protection would 
     store and utilize that information; and
       (5) provides estimates of the costs to collect, store, and 
     utilize that information.
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