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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. 

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 

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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expedited Review of 

5 Products for GSP Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. EXPEDITED PRODUCT COVERAGE PETITION PROC2 ESS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 

4 date of the enactment of this Act, the United States Inter5 national Trade Commission shall publish in the Federal 

6 Register and on a publicly available internet website of 

7 the Commission a notice requesting interested parties to 

8 submit to the Commission, during the 60-day period be9 ginning on the date of such publication, a petition— 

10 (1) to add one or more headings or subheadings 

11 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

12 States to, or remove one or more such headings or 

13 subheadings from, the list of articles that may not 

14 be designated as an eligible article for duty-free 

15 treatment pursuant to section 503(b) of the Trade 

16 Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2463(b)); or 

17 (2) to provide duty-free treatment to one or 

18 more headings or subheadings of the Harmonized 

19 Tariff Schedule under the Generalized System of 

20 Preferences that are— 

21 (A) not restricted under such section 

22 503(b) from designation as an eligible article; 

23 and 

24 (B) not otherwise designated an eligible ar25 ticle by the President pursuant to section 501 


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1 or section 503(a) of such Act (19 U.S.C. 2461; 

2 2463(a)). 

3 (b) CONTENTS OF PETITION.—A petition submitted 

4 pursuant to subsection (a) shall be eligible for consider5 ation under the process provided by this section only if 

6 such petition includes— 

7 (1) the name and address of the petitioner; 

8 (2) the 8-digit subheading level or levels under 

9 the Harmonized Tariff Schedule with respect to 

10 which the petition is submitted; and 

11 (3) for a petition submitted pursuant to sub12 section (a), a certification that the petitioner is an 

13 interested party and a brief description of the man14 ner and extent to which the petitioner is a likely 

15 beneficiary with respect to the addition or removal 

16 of the heading or subheading level concerned. 

17 (c) PUBLICATION OF PETITIONS.—As soon as prac18 ticable after the 60-day period described in subsection (a), 

19 and not later than 30 days after the end of such period, 

20 the Commission shall publish on a publicly available inter21 net website of the Commission the contents of each peti22 tion received. 

23 (d) OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.—During 

24 the 45-day period beginning on the date of the publication 

25 of petitions pursuant to subsection (c), the Commission 


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1 shall publish in the Federal Register and on a publicly 

2 available internet website of the Commission a notice re3 questing members of the public to submit comments to 

4 the Commission with respect to the changes sought by the 

5 petitions. 

6 (e) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 

7 of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall submit 

8 to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 

9 each eligible petition submitted pursuant to the process 

10 provided by this section that includes, with respect to the 

11 article or articles concerned in each such petition— 

12 (1) data from the 5 most recent calendar years 

13 for which complete information is available on— 

14 (A) sources of imports; 

15 (B) values of imports; 

16 (C) market share of imports (to the extent 

17 practical); and 

18 (D) domestic production (to the extent 

19 practical); 

20 (2) any information on whether the product is 

21 used as an input in United States manufacturing; 

22 and 

23 (3) a summary of information provided in the 

24 form of comments rebutting or objecting to the peti25 tion. 


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1 (f) AUTHORITIES.— 

2 (1) PROCEDURES.—The Commission shall pre3 scribe and publish in the Federal Register and on a 

4 publicly available internet website of the Commission 

5 all procedures to be complied with by members of 

6 the public submitting petitions. 

7 (2) JUDICIAL REVIEW PRECLUDED.—The exer8 cise of functions under this Act shall not be subject 

9 to judicial review. 

10 (g) INTERESTED PARTY DEFINED.—In this section, 

11 the term ‘‘interested party’’ has the definition given such 

12 term in section 771 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 

13 1677), except that an interested party under this section 

14 may not include— 

15 (1) any person described in paragraph (9)(A) of 

16 such section, other than a person that is an importer 

17 or a business association of importers; or 

18 (2) any person described in paragraph (9)(B) 

19 or (9)(G) of such section. 

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