S.Amdt. 1818

SA 1818. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Carper) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr.
Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for
Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to
establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and
report on economic security, science, research, innovation,
manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain
resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the end of title III of division F, add the following:

SEC. 6302. BRIEFING ON REPORT RELATED TO PROCESS FOR
EXCLUDING ARTICLES IMPORTED FROM THE PEOPLE'S
REPUBLIC OF CHINA FROM CERTAIN DUTIES IMPOSED
UNDER SECTION 301 OF THE TRADE ACT OF 1974.

Not later than 90 days after the publication by the
Comptroller General of the United States of the report
requested by Congress on July 16, 2019, for an audit into the
process by which the United States Trade Representative has
excluded articles imported from the People's Republic of
China from certain duties imposed under section 301 of the
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2411), the Trade Representative,
or a designee of the Trade Representative, shall brief the
Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways
and Means of the House of Representatives on the manner in
which the Trade Representative is responding to the findings
contained in that report.
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