Generalized System of Preferences and Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Modernization Act of 2021
Summary
Generalized System of Preferences and Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Modernization Act of 2021 This bill reauthorizes and revises specified U.S. trade programs and provisions. Specifically, the bill extends through December 31, 2024, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which provides duty-free treatment to products imported from designated beneficiary countries. The bill makes various changes to the GSP, including by (1) adding human rights, environmental, and other criteria for designation as a beneficiary developing country; (2) requiring a review of laws relating to worker and gender rights; and (3) requiring a study on rules of origin and GSP utilization rates. Additionally, the bill provides through December 31, 2023, and retroactively applies to 120 days before this bill's enactment, temporary duty suspensions or reductions to eligible imported products. This authorization is commonly known as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB). The last version of the MTB was enacted in September 2018 and the temporary treatment for those products listed in the MTB expired on December 31, 2020. The bill also extends the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 for two future MTB cycles (one in 2022 and one in 2025). This extension allows the U.S. International Trade Commission to conduct the MTB petition, review, and recommendation process for those additional cycles.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 17, 2021
Last action Jun 17, 2021
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Jun 17, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
lower
Jun 17, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
lower
Jun 17, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 13 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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State
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Earl Blumenauer
DDemocratic
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Cynthia Axne
DDemocratic
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Daniel T. Kildee
DDemocratic
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Danny K. Davis
DDemocratic
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Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Gwen Moore
DDemocratic
Co
John B. Larson
DDemocratic
Co
Judy Chu
DDemocratic
Co
Linda T. Sánchez
DDemocratic
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Lloyd Doggett
DDemocratic
Co
Ron Kind
DDemocratic
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