Stand Up for America Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4733
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2006-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: China
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional agencies
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Currency devaluation
Dispute settlement
East Asia
Europe
European Union
Exports
Foreign trade promotion
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government procurement
House Ways and Means
House rules and procedure
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International competitiveness
Legislative resolutions
Nontariff trade barriers
President and foreign policy
Russia
Senate Finance
Senate rules and procedure
Small business
Tariff
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations
Veto

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: 
Stand Up for America Act of 2006 - Establishes in the legislative branch an Office of the Congressional Trade Enforcer to ensure compliance by U.S. trading partners with international trade agreements to which the United States is a party.
 
Establishes the Office of Market Access Assistance within such Office to provide technical and legal assistance and advice to eligible small businesses enabling them to prepare and file petitions (other than those that are frivolous) under the Trade Act of 1974.
 
Amends the Act to extend indefinitely (currently, 1995 only) the Congressional Trade Enforcer's (currently, U.S. Trade Representative's) mandate to identify and report on trade expansion priorities.
 
Requires the report to identify priority foreign country practices of currency manipulation.
 
Requires the Trade Representative, before initiating an investigation (as under current law), to seek consultations with each foreign country identified in the report as engaging in priority foreign country practices, for the purpose of reaching a satisfactory resolution of such priority practices. Requires initiation of an investigation only if a satisfactory resolution of such practices has not been reached.
 
Requires the Congressional Trade Enforcer: (1) to identify and report to Congress on priority foreign trade practices of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Russian Federation, and the European Union; and (2) as part of the report's analysis, to consider violations by the PRC and the Russian Federation of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules regarding the protection of intellectual property rights, violations by the PRC of WTO rules regarding the manipulation of currency, and violations by the European Union of WTO rules regarding discriminatory regional trade agreements.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Introduced in House