products, and polices with respect to the implementation 
of its export credit insurance program, delegated lending 
authority, and direct loans, and any other programs, prod-
ucts, and policies established to support exports from small 
businesses in the United States, and determine the extent 
to which those policies adequately meet the needs of the 
small businesses in obtaining Bank financing to support 
the maintenance or creation of jobs in the United States 
through exports, consistent with the requirement that the 
Bank obtain a reasonable assurance of repayment. 
SEC. 15. CATEGORIZATION OF PURPOSE OF LOANS AND 
LONG-TERM GUARANTEES IN ANNUAL RE-
PORT. 
Section 8 of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 
U.S.C. 635g), as amended by section 9 of this Act, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(h) CATEGORIZATION OF PURPOSE OF LOANS AND 
LONG-TERM GUARANTEES.—In the annual report of the 
Bank under subsection (a), the Bank shall categorize each 
loan and long-term guarantee made by the Bank in the fis-
cal year covered by the report, and according to the fol-
lowing purposes: 
‘‘(1) ‘To assume commercial or political risk that 
exporter or private financial institutions are unwill-
ing or unable to undertake’. 
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‘‘(2) ‘To overcome maturity or other limitations 
in private sector export financing’. 
‘‘(3) ‘To meet competition from a foreign, offi-
cially sponsored, export credit competition’. 
‘‘(4) ‘Not identified’, and the reason why the 
purpose is not identified.’’. 
SEC. 16. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT FOR BOARD MEET-
INGS. 
Section 3(c)(9) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 
(12 U.S.C. 635a(a)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ‘‘Not later than 25 days before any 
meeting of the Board for final consideration of a trans-
action the value of which exceeds $75,000,000, and concur-
rent with any statement required to be submitted under sec-
tion 2(b)(3) with respect to the transaction, the Bank shall 
post a notice on the website of the Bank that includes a 
description of the item proposed to be financed, the identi-
ties of the obligor, principal supplier, and guarantor, and 
a description of any item with respect to which Bank fi-
nancing is being sought, in a manner that does not disclose 
any information that is confidential or proprietary busi-
ness information, that would violate the Trade Secrets Act, 
or that would jeopardize jobs in the United States by sup-
plying information which competitors could use to compete 
with companies in the United States.’’. 
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SEC. 17. MODIFICATIONS RELATING TO THE ADVISORY 
COMMITTEE. 
(a) REPRESENTATION OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY.— 
Section 3(d)(1)(B) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 
(12 U.S.C. 635a(d)(1)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘and 
State government’’ inserting ‘‘State government, and the 
textile industry’’. 
(b) ACCESS TO BANK PRODUCTS BY THE TEXTILE IN-
DUSTRY.— 
(1) CONSIDERATION BY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 
Section 3(d) of such Act (12 U.S.C. 635a(d)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) In carrying out paragraph (4), the Advisory 
Committee shall consider ways to promote the financing of 
Bank transactions for the textile industry, consistent with 
the requirement that the Bank obtain a reasonable assur-
ance of repayment, and determine ways to— 
‘‘(A) increase Bank support for the exports of 
textile components or inputs made in the United 
States; and 
‘‘(B) support the maintenance, promotion and 
expansion of jobs in the United States that are crit-
ical to the manufacture of textile components and in-
puts.’’. 
(2) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ADVISORY 
COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—Section 8 of such Act 
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(12 U.S.C. 635g), as amended by the preceding provi-
sions of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(i) ACCESS TO BANK PRODUCTS BY THE TEXTILE IN-
DUSTRY.—The Bank shall include in its annual report to 
the Congress under subsection (a) of this section a report 
on the determinations made by the Advisory Committee 
under section 3(d)(5) in the year covered by the report.’’. 
SEC. 18. FINANCING FOR GOODS MANUFACTURED IN THE 
UNITED STATES USED IN GLOBAL TEXTILE 
AND APPAREL SUPPLY CHAINS. 
(a) ANALYSIS OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY USE OF BANK 
PRODUCTS.—The Export-Import Bank of the United States 
(in this section referred to as the ‘‘Bank’’) shall conduct 
a study of the extent to which the products offered by the 
Bank are available and used by manufacturers in the 
United States that export goods manufactured in the 
United States used as components in global textile and ap-
parel supply chains. In conducting the study, the Bank 
shall examine the following: 
(1) Impediments to use of Bank products by such 
firms. 
(2) The number of jobs in the United States that 
are supported by the export of such component parts 
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and the degree to which access to financing will in-
crease exports. 
(3) Specific proposals for how the Bank, using 
its authority and products, could provide the financ-
ing, including through risk-sharing with other export 
credit agencies and other third parties. 
(4) Ways in which the Bank can take into ac-
count the full global textile and apparel supply 
chain—in particular, the ultimate purchase, and ul-
timate United States-based purchaser, of the finished 
good, that would result from the supply chain—in 
making credit and risk determinations and the credit-
worthiness of the ultimate purchaser. 
(5) Proposals for new products the Bank could 
offer to provide the financing, including— 
(A) the extent to which the Bank is author-
ized to offer new products; 
(B) the extent to which the Bank would 
need additional authority to offer the new prod-
ucts; and 
(C) specific proposals for changes in law 
that would enable the Bank to provide such fi-
nancing in compliance with the credit and risk 
standards of the Bank. 
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