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Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-03-14 00:00:00

Increasing American Jobs Through More Exports Act - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to authorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States, subject to appropriations, to use up to 3% of the Bank's surplus, for each of the 5 fiscal years following enactment of this Act, to cover its administrative expenses.

Requires the Bank to use at least one-third of that 3% of surplus to expand or establish Bank regional offices.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2014-07-30 00:00:00

Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States through FY2019.

Extends, for FY2015-FY2019, the Bank's authority to use a specified amount of its surplus for information technology system updates.

Extends, through FY2019, the termination date of the sub-Saharan Africa advisory committee.

Prescribes limitations on outstanding Bank loans, guarantees, and insurance for FY2015-FY2018 and each fiscal year thereafter.

Extends, through FY2019, Bank authority to provide financing for the export of nonlethal defense articles and defense services whose primary end use is for civilian purposes.

Directs the Bank to submit to Congress and the Comptroller General (GAO) a business plan that includes an estimate of the Bank's appropriate exposure limits for FY2015-FY2019.

Directs GAO to study the Bank's medium-term financing programs.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2014-12-09 00:00:00

State Trade and Export Promotion Utilization Program for American Small Businesses Act or the STEP UP for American Small Businesses Act - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Associate Administrator for International Trade within the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a State Trade and Export Promotion Grant Program.

Authorizes the Associate Administrator to make competitive grants to states to carry out export promotion programs to increase: (1) the number of eligible small businesses that export (including rural small businesses and small businesses owned and controlled by women and socially and economically disadvantaged individuals), as well as (2) the value of their exports.

Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to require the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) to include one or more members appointed by the President who are representatives of state trade promotion agencies.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-02-13 00:00:00

Increasing American Jobs Through More Exports Act

 Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to authorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States, subject to appropriations, to use up to 3% of the Bank's surplus, for each of the 5 fiscal years following enactment of this Act, to cover its administrative expenses.

Requires the Bank to use at least one-third of that 3% of surplus to expand or establish Bank regional offices.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-05-05 00:00:00

This bill amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to require the Export-Import Bank of the United States to increase from at least 20% to at least 25% the amount of its aggregate loan, guarantee, and insurance authority it makes available to finance direct small business exports for each fiscal year.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2015-05-21 00:00:00

State Trade and Export Promotion Utilization Program for American Small Businesses Act or the STEP UP for American Small Businesses Act

 Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Associate Administrator for International Trade within the Small Business Administration to establish a State Trade and Export Promotion Grant Program.

Authorizes the Associate Administrator to make competitive grants to states to carry out export promotion programs to increase: (1) the number of eligible small businesses that export (including rural small businesses and small businesses owned and controlled by women and socially and economically disadvantaged individuals), as well as (2) the value of their exports.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-06-01 00:00:00

Export Coordination Act of 2015

 Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to revise the duties of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC).

Requires the TPCC to:

 identify opportunities to consolidate or co-locate offices of federal agencies involved in export promotion and export financing activities; assess the use and coordination of electronic databases among federal agencies in support of such activities; and provide a detailed listing of current and future federal and state-led trade missions, trade fairs, and related activities to ensure better delivery of services to U.S. businesses. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to make available information on federal and state-led trade missions, trade fairs, and related activities on the Export.gov website.

Requires the governmentwide strategic plan for federal trade promotion efforts to:

 clearly identify and explain the role, goals, and objectives of each TPCC member agency with respect its export promotion and export financing activities; include the recommendations of the Comptroller General relating to coordination of the TPCC and member agencies; and reflect the recommendations of the U.S. Travel Association (currently, U.S. National Tourism Organization) to the degree considered appropriate by the TPCC. Directs the TPCC to establish a working group to advise it on matters relating to state trade promotion.

Revises membership of the TPCC to include representatives from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as well as one ex officio, nonvoting presidential appointee representing a state trade promotion agency and who is a member of the working group.

Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce to report biennially to Congress on the extent to which the TPCC is successfully carrying out its duties.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-06-01 00:00:00

State Trade Coordination Act

 Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to revise membership of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) to include one or more presidential appointees representing state trade promotion agencies.

Directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the TPCC and in coordination with representatives of state trade promotion agencies, to develop a plan to integrate resources and strategies of state trade promotion agencies into the overall federal trade promotion program.

Directs the Secretary, acting through the head of the U.S. Commercial Service, to develop an annual federal-state export strategy for goods and services for each state that submits to the Secretary its export strategy for the upcoming year.

Directs the Secretary, in coordination with representatives of state trade promotion agencies, to develop a framework to share export success information, and develop a coordinated set of reporting metrics.

Revises the strategic plan for federal trade promotion efforts to include an annual survey and analysis of the overall effectiveness of federal-state coordination and export promotion goals, as well as best practices, recommendations to better assist small businesses, and other relevant matters.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-06-11 00:00:00

American Export Promotion Act of 2015

 Authorizes appropriations for the Manufacturing and Services unit of the International Trade Administration (ITA) of the Department of Commerce for the ITA's Market Development Cooperator Program.

Requires, in the use of such funds, a preference to be given to activities that:

 assist small- and medium-sized U.S. businesses, and will create or sustain the greatest number of jobs or obtain the maximum return on investment.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-10-28 00:00:00

Reform Exports and Expand the American Economy Act

This bill amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to require the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to report to Congress: (1) semiannually on the terms and conditions (including interest rates, maturities, and credit standards) that private financial institutions apply in providing export finance; and (2) annually on the steps the Bank has taken to adjust the pricing of products offered, and the credit standards used, to avoid crowding out private export finance.

The Bank's Board of Directors must include in their annual report to Congress any recommendations about countries with whom and in which it should not be doing business.

The Chief Ethics Officer shall draft a Code of Ethics prescribing strict and definite standards of official conduct for all Bank directors, officers, and employees, including conflict-of-interest prohibitions.

If the Bank issues any report to Congress or any congressional committee containing accounting information that is not prepared using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAPs), the Bank must issue a second report with the same accounting information prepared using GAAPs.

The Bank shall be lender of last resort to privately owned foreign applicants (other than financial institutions), which must first try to obtain competitive financing for the transaction in question without support from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation or the Small Business Administration.

Bank directors who are neither Chairman nor Vice Chairman of the Board shall constitute the Board's Audit Committee.

The President must report to specified congressional committees on Bank programs that may be fully or partially privatized.

The Bank's Inspector General shall audit the Bank's portfolio risk management procedures, including its implementation of the duties assigned to the Chief Risk Officer.

The Bank must retain at least 30% of total net earnings as a provision for possible losses.

Two terms shall be the term limit for any Bank President.

The absolute limit, regardless of fiscal year, for the aggregate amount of outstanding Bank loans, guarantees, and insurance, shall be $130 billion.

The requirement that the Bank urge the Foreign Credit Insurance Association to cover 100% of any loss with respect to exports valued at less than $100,000 is repealed.

Bank policies must give fair consideration to making loans and providing guarantees for the export of goods and services by medium-sized enterprises.

The authority of the President under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative to sell, reduce, or cancel certain loans for the debt relief of eligible countries in Latin America and the Caribbean is repealed.

The Bank shall adjust all dollar amounts specified in the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 for inflation.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2015-11-03 00:00:00

Small Business Growth Through Exports Act of 2016

This bill amends the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 to reauthorize through FY2019, and increase the authorization of appropriations for, the State Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) Grant Program.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-12-18 00:00:00

Entering Negotiations to Dissolve Outdated Financial Agencies Nationalizing Export Related Activities or the END OF AN ERA Act

This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to seek to enter into negotiations with other countries for the mutual elimination of government-backed export credit agencies.

Treasury shall submit: (1) annual reports on progress made in arranging such negotiations, on progress made in any such negotiations, and on whether eliminating the Export-Import Bank of the United States at the time of the report would put the United States at a competitive disadvantage; and (2) a certification of any determination that the Bank can be eliminated in a way that would not put the United States at a competitive disadvantage, considering job losses and a decrease in economic activity.

After such a determination is submitted, the Bank may not accept an application for, or enter into a contract that would obligate the Bank to provide, a loan, insurance, or a guarantee or to participate in an extension of credit by another entity.

 The Bank shall be abolished 180 days after Treasury submits such a certification and its functions transferred to Treasury. All such transferred functions shall terminate on the date all obligations of the Bank, and all obligations of others to the Bank, in effect immediately before the abolishment date have been satisfied.

The bill repeals the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 and eliminates related authorizing provisions of various statutes.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2016-04-29 00:00:00

Boosting America's Exports Act

This bill directs the International Trade Administration (ITA) of the Department of Commerce to assess the location of and services provided by U.S. Export Assistance Centers (USEACs) in relation to the location of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that export U.S. products and services in order to identify:

 those USEACs that should be closed or moved based on low productivity, and those locations where a USEAC should be located based on need. The ITA shall take necessary steps, through actions by the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service of the Department of Commerce, to increase exports by SMEs.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2016-09-21 00:00:00

Export Promotion Act

This bill establishes the Export Promotion Agency in the Department of Commerce, to be headed by an Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Promotion.

There are transferred to the Agency the functions of each of the following:

 the International Trade Administration, the Office of International Trade of the Small Business Administration, the Trade and Development Agency, the Export Credit Guarantee Program and the Facilities Guarantee Program of the Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs of the Department of State. The Under Secretary shall develop:

 an organizational structure for the Agency that consolidates programs and eliminates duplicative programs; and metrics to measure performance with respect to the total U.S. exports and number of U.S. businesses exporting (including exports assisted by the Agency), as well as number of businesses present in key foreign markets.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-01-06 00:00:00

Small Business Export Growth Act of 2015

 Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to revise the duties of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC).

Requires the TPCC to: (1) identify opportunities to consolidate or co-locate offices of federal agencies involved in export promotion and export financing activities; (2) assess the use and coordination of electronic databases among federal agencies in support of such activities; and (3) provide a detailed listing of current and future federal and state-led trade missions, trade fairs, and related activities to ensure better delivery of services to U.S. businesses.

Requires the Secretary of Commerce to make available information on federal and state-led trade missions, trade fairs, and related activities on the Export.gov website.

Requires the governmentwide strategic plan for federal trade promotion efforts to: (1) clearly identify and explain the role, goals, and objectives of each agency represented on the TPCC with respect its export promotion and export financing activities; (2) include any recommendations of the Comptroller General relating to coordination of the agencies represented on the TPCC; and (3) reflect the recommendations of the U.S. Travel Association (currently, U.S. National Tourism Organization) to the degree considered appropriate by the TPCC.

Directs the President to establish a State and Federal Export Promotion Coordination Working Group as a subcommittee of the TPCC to develop a strategy for improving coordination of federal and state resources for small business export promotion and export financing activities.

Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce to report annually to Congress on the extent to which the TPCC is successfully carrying out its duties.

Requires the Associate Administrator for International Trade of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to report to Congress on recommendations for improving the experience of the Export.gov website as a comprehensive export information resource and a single website for exporters to submit all federally required information on the exportation of articles from the United States.

Amends the Small Business Act to require that the nationwide marketing effort of the Associate Administrator, in promoting sales opportunities for the export of small business goods and services, to conduct at least one outreach event each fiscal year in each state.

Directs the SBA Administrator, the Secretary of Agriculture, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to establish jointly a Small Business Inter-Agency Task Force on Export Financing.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2015-04-20 00:00:00

State Trade and Export Promotion Utilization Program for American Small Businesses Act or the STEP UP for American Small Businesses Act

 Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Associate Administrator for International Trade within the Small Business Administration to establish a State Trade and Export Promotion Grant Program.

Authorizes the Associate Administrator to make competitive grants to states to carry out export promotion programs to increase: (1) the number of eligible small businesses that export (including rural small businesses and small businesses owned and controlled by women and socially and economically disadvantaged individuals), as well as (2) the value of their exports.

Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to require the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee to include one or more members appointed by the President who are representatives of state trade promotion agencies.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2015-04-22 00:00:00

Invest in American Jobs Act of 2015

 Revises Buy American requirements with respect to federal-aid highways, capital investment grants to support intercity passenger rail service (rail grants), and Amtrak, particularly the handling of waiver requests.

Revises similar Buy American requirements with respect to public transportation, particularly rolling stock. Requires the cost of rolling stock components and subcomponents produced in the United States to increase from 60% in FY2015 by 10% annual increments up to 100% for FY2019 and ensuing fiscal years. Revises waiver requirements as well to mirror those for federal-aid highways.

Applies the rail grant Buy American requirements under this Act to recipients of rail loans and loan guarantees with respect to railroad rehabilitation and improvement.

Prescribes Buy American requirements for procurement of a facility or equipment under federal aviation programs similar to those for rolling stock.

Requires the Secretary of Transportation to report annually to Congress on: (1) each project for which a waiver of Buy American requirements was issued; and (2) the country of origin and product specifications for steel, iron, or manufactured goods acquired pursuant to each waiver.

Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to prescribe Buy American requirements for steel, iron, and manufactured goods used in the construction of a public water system.

Adds similar Buy American requirements to the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, with respect to economic development programs, and to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, with respect to the Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

Amends the Truman-Hobbs Act to prescribe Buy American requirements for steel, iron, and manufactured goods used in the alteration of a bridge over U.S. navigable waters.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2015-06-10 00:00:00

Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015

This bill declares that it is the policy of this Act:

 that, should the statutory authority for the export loan programs administered by the Export-Import Bank of the United States lapse, the Small Business Administration (SBA) shall serve the Bank's small business clients under existing statutory authority of the Small Business Act; to create an SBA Export Credit Insurance Program similar to the Bank's; and to ensure that small business exporters are served by SBA programs. The bill also amends the Small Business Act to require the SBA to establish a program to provide insurance for the exports of small businesses, including insurance against nonpayment by international buyers.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2015-06-11 00:00:00

American Export Promotion Act of 2015

 Authorizes appropriations for the Industry and Analysis unit of the International Trade Administration (ITA) of the Department of Commerce for the ITA's Market Development Cooperator Program.

Requires, in the use of such funds, a preference to be given to activities that will assist small- and medium-sized U.S. businesses and:

 create or sustain the greatest number of jobs, obtain the maximum return on investment, increase U.S. exports to the Asia and Pacific region, increase U.S. exports in services, or address Department export priorities.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2015-07-09 00:00:00

Bring Jobs Home Act

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) grant business taxpayers a tax credit for up to 20% of insourcing expenses incurred for eliminating a business located outside the United States and  relocating it within the United States, and (2) deny a tax deduction for outsourcing expenses incurred in relocating a U.S. business outside the United States. Requires an increase in the taxpayer's employment of full-time employees in the United States in order to claim the tax credit for insourcing expenses.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2016-07-07 00:00:00

No Ex-Im Financing for Iran Act

This bill amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Export-Import Bank from guaranteeing, insuring, extending credit, or participating in the extension of credit in connection with the export of U.S. goods or services to any entity that does business with or provides credit or a guarantee to any other entity in connection with exports involving:

 the Government of Iran, or an entity in which the Government of Iran participates, an entity created under Iranian law, or an operation in Iran.
Topic: Foreign Trade — Exports
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2016-09-06 00:00:00

Keeping Aircraft Away from Terrorists Act of 2016

This bill prohibits the President and executive agencies from issuing a license under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or providing other guidance, that allows a person, depository institution, registered securities broker or dealer, or foreign financial institution to conduct a transaction related to the export of aircraft to Iran.