[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 139 (Wednesday, August 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5865-S5866]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2530. Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, and Mr. Casey) 
submitted

[[Page S5866]]

an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by 
Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. 
Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for 
Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

        At the end of division I, add the following:

     SEC. 90009. NEGOTIATIONS WITH RESPECT TO IMPORTATION OF 
                   GRAIN-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL FOR USE IN THE 
                   PRODUCTION OF ELECTRIC GRID TRANSFORMERS.

       (a) In General.--The United States Trade Representative 
     shall immediately seek to enter into negotiations with Canada 
     and Mexico to ensure that--
       (1) the national security of the United States is not 
     impaired by the importation into the United States of grain-
     oriented electrical steel in the form of core parts, cores, 
     or laminations for use in the production of electric grid 
     transformers; and
       (2) Canada and Mexico are not being used as pass-through 
     countries for other countries engaged in the dumping (as 
     defined in section 771 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
     1677)) of such steel.
       (b) Reports Required.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter until 
     the date described in paragraph (2), the Trade Representative 
     shall submit to Congress a report on the status of the 
     negotiations described in subsection (a).
       (2) Date described.--The date described in this paragraph 
     is the date on which the President certifies to Congress that 
     Canada and Mexico have agreed to measures that will prevent 
     the importation in the United States of grain-oriented 
     electrical steel in the form of core parts, cores, or 
     laminations from impairing the national security of the 
     United States.
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