Jobs and Trade Competitiveness Act

Bill: 115-hr-2756
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Asia
Business investment and capital
Canada
China
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional agencies
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Currency
Employee hiring
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Foreign and international corporations
Free trade and trade barriers
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
House of Representatives
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
India
International monetary system and foreign exchange
International organizations and cooperation
Labor standards
Latin America
Legislative rules and procedure
Manufacturing
Metals
Mexico
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Senate
Small business
Tariffs
Taxation of foreign income
Trade agreements and negotiations
U.S. territories and protectorates
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Jobs and Trade Competitiveness Act

 
This bill establishes: (1) an Office of the Congressional Trade Enforcer; (2) an Office of Market Access Assistance; (3) a Trade Enforcement Division within the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), headed by a Deputy U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Enforcement; (4) the Office of Trade Assistance for Small Business; (5) the Chief Manufacturing Negotiator; and (6) the Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO Dispute Settlement to provide advice to Congress on the operation of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization.
 
The bill amends the Tariff Act of 1930 regarding: (1) the imposition of countervailing duties to address subsidies relating to fundamentally undervalued currencies; and (2) the establishment of procedures for the protection of business proprietary information from public disclosure, with respect to the investigation of claims of evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
 
The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit for insourcing expenses and to deny a deduction for outsourcing expenses.
 
The USTR shall identify those foreign country trade practices that cause negative environmental impacts on human, animal, or plant life or health, or exhaustible natural resources in the United States, the foreign country, a third country, or internationally, and periodically report on such practices.
 
The Government Accountability Office shall report assessing progress in: (1) achieving compliance by other countries with commitments made under specified international fora, and (2) ensuring that goods made with child labor do not enter the customs territory of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
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: 2017-05-26
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: 2017-05-26
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: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House