I 
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 prod-
ucts eligible or ineligible for beneficial treatment under 
the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expedited Review of 
Products for GSP Act’’. 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
00:23 Apr 25, 2024
Jkt 049200
PO 00000
Frm 00001
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8006.IH
H8006
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
SEC. 2. EXPEDITED PRODUCT COVERAGE PETITION PROC-
ESS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the United States Inter-
national Trade Commission shall publish in the Federal 
Register and on a publicly available internet website of 
the Commission a notice requesting interested parties to 
submit to the Commission, during the 60-day period be-
ginning on the date of such publication, a petition— 
(1) to add one or more headings or subheadings 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States to, or remove one or more such headings or 
subheadings from, the list of articles that may not 
be designated as an eligible article for duty-free 
treatment pursuant to section 503(b) of the Trade 
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2463(b)); or 
(2) to provide duty-free treatment to one or 
more headings or subheadings of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule under the Generalized System of 
Preferences that are— 
(A) not restricted under such section 
503(b) from designation as an eligible article; 
and 
(B) not otherwise designated an eligible ar-
ticle by the President pursuant to section 501 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
00:23 Apr 25, 2024
Jkt 049200
PO 00000
Frm 00002
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8006.IH
H8006
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
or section 503(a) of such Act (19 U.S.C. 2461; 
2463(a)). 
(b) CONTENTS OF PETITION.—A petition submitted 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall be eligible for consider-
ation under the process provided by this section only if 
such petition includes— 
(1) the name and address of the petitioner; 
(2) the 8-digit subheading level or levels under 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule with respect to 
which the petition is submitted; and 
(3) for a petition submitted pursuant to sub-
section (a), a certification that the petitioner is an 
interested party and a brief description of the man-
ner and extent to which the petitioner is a likely 
beneficiary with respect to the addition or removal 
of the heading or subheading level concerned. 
(c) PUBLICATION OF PETITIONS.—As soon as prac-
ticable after the 60-day period described in subsection (a), 
and not later than 30 days after the end of such period, 
the Commission shall publish on a publicly available inter-
net website of the Commission the contents of each peti-
tion received. 
(d) OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.—During 
the 45-day period beginning on the date of the publication 
of petitions pursuant to subsection (c), the Commission 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
00:23 Apr 25, 2024
Jkt 049200
PO 00000
Frm 00003
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8006.IH
H8006
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
shall publish in the Federal Register and on a publicly 
available internet website of the Commission a notice re-
questing members of the public to submit comments to 
the Commission with respect to the changes sought by the 
petitions. 
(e) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 
each eligible petition submitted pursuant to the process 
provided by this section that includes, with respect to the 
article or articles concerned in each such petition— 
(1) data from the 5 most recent calendar years 
for which complete information is available on— 
(A) sources of imports; 
(B) values of imports; 
(C) market share of imports (to the extent 
practical); and 
(D) domestic production (to the extent 
practical); 
(2) any information on whether the product is 
used as an input in United States manufacturing; 
and 
(3) a summary of information provided in the 
form of comments rebutting or objecting to the peti-
tion. 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
00:23 Apr 25, 2024
Jkt 049200
PO 00000
Frm 00004
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8006.IH
H8006
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS