[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1904. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer 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 end of section 3213, add the following:
       (c) Negotiations on Free Trade Agreement.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the United States Trade 
     Representative shall seek to enter into negotiations with 
     representatives from Taiwan to establish a bilateral trade 
     agreement between the United States and Taiwan.
       (2) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Trade Representative shall submit 
     to the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means 
     and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives a report on the status of negotiations under 
     paragraph (1).
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