Digital Trade for Development Act

Bill: 117-hr-3052
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. LaHood, Darin [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2021-05-07
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Digital Trade for Development Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the President from designating any country as a beneficiary developing country if the country restricts digital trade to the detriment of U.S. development goals, strategic interests, or competitiveness. A country with such designation receives preferential trade treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences.</p> <p>When designating any country as a beneficiary developing country, the President must, in addition to other factors, consider the extent to which such country has (1) refrained from imposing or eliminated digital trade barriers, and (2) taken steps to support consumer protections and the privacy of personal information online and to extend the benefits of digital trade to all.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3052 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 7, 2021 Mr. LaHood introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To modify the bases for ineligibility for countries to benefit from the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Digital Trade for Development Act . 2. Modifications to authority to designate countries Section 502 of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2462 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)(2)— (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (H) as subparagraphs (E) through (I), respectively; (B) in the matter following subparagraph (H), by striking (D), (E), (F), (G), and (H) (to the extent described in section 507(6)(D)) and inserting (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), and (I) (to the extent described in section 507(6)(D)) ; and (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new subparagraph: (D) The President, acting through the United States Trade Representative, determines that such country restricts digital trade to the detriment of United States development goals, strategic interests, or competitiveness. ; and (2) in subsection (c)— (A) in paragraph (6)(B), by striking ; and and the end and inserting a semicolon; (B) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (8) the extent to which, in the determination of the President acting through the United States Trade Representative, such country— (A) has refrained from imposing, or has eliminated, digital trade barriers, including unnecessary data transfer restrictions and data localization mandates; and (B) has taken steps to support consumer protections and the privacy of personal information online and to extend the benefits of digital trade to all. .