text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``American Manufacturing 
  Competitiveness Act of 2015''.
  
  SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NEED FOR A MISCELLANEOUS TARIFF BILL.
  
      (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
              (1) As of the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
          Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States imposes duties 
          on imported goods for which there is no domestic availability 
          or insufficient domestic availability.
              (2) The imposition of duties on such goods creates 
          artificial distortions in the economy of the United States that 
          negatively affect United States manufacturers and consumers.
              (3) It is in the interests of the United States to update 
          the Harmonized Tariff Schedule every 3 years to eliminate such 
          artificial distortions by suspending or reducing duties on such 
          goods.
              (4) The manufacturing competitiveness of the United States 
          around the world will be enhanced if Congress regularly and 
          predictably updates the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to suspend 
          or reduce duties on such goods.
      (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that, to remove 
  the competitive disadvantage to United States manufactures and 
  consumers resulting from an outdated Harmonized Tariff Schedule and to 
  promote the competitiveness of United States manufacturers, Congress 
  should consider a miscellaneous tariff bill not later than 180 days 
  after the United States International Trade Commission and the 
  Department of Commerce issue reports on proposed duty suspensions and 
  reductions under this Act.
  
  SEC. 3. PROCESS FOR CONSIDERATION OF DUTY SUSPENSIONS AND REDUCTIONS.
  
      (a) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to establish a 
  process by the appropriate congressional committees, in conjunction 
  with the Commission pursuant to its authorities under section 332 of 
  the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1332), for the submission and 
  consideration of proposed duty suspensions and reductions.
      (b) Establishment.--Not later than October 15, 2015, and October 
  15, 2018, the appropriate congressional committees shall establish and, 
  on the same day, publish on their respective publicly available 
  Internet websites a process--
              (1) to provide for the submission and consideration of 
          legislation containing proposed duty suspensions and reductions 
          in a manner that, to the maximum extent practicable, is 
          consistent with the requirements described in subsection (c); 
          and
              (2) to include in a miscellaneous tariff bill those duty 
          suspensions and reductions that meet the requirements of this 
          Act.
      (c) Requirements of Commission.--
              (1) Initiation.--Not later than October 15, 2015, and 
          October 15, 2018, the Commission shall publish in the Federal 
          Register and on a publicly available Internet website of the 
          Commission a notice requesting members of the public to submit 
          to the Commission during the 60-day period beginning on the 
          date of such publication--
                      (A) proposed duty suspensions and reductions; and
                      (B) Commission disclosure forms with respect to 
                  such duty suspensions and reductions.
              (2) Review.--
                      (A) Commission submission to congress.--As soon as 
                  practicable after the expiration of the 60-day period 
                  specified in paragraph (1), but not later than 15 days 
                  after the expiration of such 60-day period, the 
                  Commission shall submit to the appropriate 
                  congressional committees the proposed duty suspensions 
                  and reductions submitted under paragraph (1)(A) and the 
                  Commission disclosure forms with respect to such duty 
                  suspensions and reductions submitted under paragraph 
                  (1)(B).
                      (B) Public availability of proposed duty 
                  suspensions and reductions.--Not later than 15 days 
                  after the expiration of the 60-day period specified in 
                  paragraph (1), the Commission shall publish on a 
                  publicly available Internet website of the Commission 
                  the proposed duty suspensions and reductions submitted 
                  under paragraph (1)(A) and the Commission disclosure 
                  forms with respect to such duty suspensions and 
                  reductions submitted under paragraph (1)(B).
                      (C) Commission reports to congress.--Not later than 
                  the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of 
                  publication of the proposed duty suspensions and 
                  reductions under subparagraph (B), the Commission shall 
                  submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
                  report on each proposed duty suspension or reduction 
                  submitted pursuant to subsection (b)(1) or paragraph 
                  (1)(A) that contains the following information:
                              (i) A determination of whether or not 
                          domestic production of the article that is the 
                          subject of the proposed duty suspension or 
                          reduction exists and, if such production 
                          exists, whether or not a domestic producer of 
                          the article objects to the proposed duty 
                          suspension or reduction.
                              (ii) Any technical changes to the article 
                          description that are necessary for purposes of 
                          administration when articles are presented for 
                          importation.
                              (iii) The amount of tariff revenue that 
                          would no longer be collected if the proposed 
                          duty suspension or reduction takes effect.
                              (iv) A determination of whether or not the 
                          proposed duty suspension or reduction is 
                          available to any person that imports the 
                          article that is the subject of the proposed 
                          duty suspension or reduction.
              (3) Procedures.--The Commission shall prescribe and publish 
          on a publicly available Internet website of the Commission 
          procedures for complying with the requirements of this 
          subsection.
              (4) Authorities described.--The Commission shall carry out 
          this subsection pursuant to its authorities under section 332 
          of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1332).
      (d) Department of Commerce Report.--Not later than the end of the 
  90-day period beginning on the date of publication of the proposed duty 
  suspensions and reductions under subsection (c)(2)(B), the Secretary of 
  Commerce, in consultation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and 
  other relevant Federal agencies, shall submit to the appropriate 
  congressional committees a report on each proposed duty suspension and 
  reduction submitted pursuant to subsection (b)(1) or (c)(1)(A) that 
  includes the following information:
              (1) A determination of whether or not domestic production 
          of the article that is the subject of the proposed duty 
          suspension or reduction exists and, if such production exists, 
          whether or not a domestic producer of the article objects to 
          the proposed duty suspension or reduction.
              (2) Any technical changes to the article description that 
          are necessary for purposes of administration when articles are 
          presented for importation.
      (e) Rule of Construction.--A proposed duty suspension or reduction 
  submitted under this section by a Member of Congress shall receive 
  treatment no more favorable than the treatment received by a proposed 
  duty suspension or reduction submitted under this section by a member 
  of the public.
  
  SEC. 4. REPORT ON EFFECTS OF DUTY SUSPENSIONS AND REDUCTIONS ON UNITED 
                STATES ECONOMY.
  
      (a) In General.--Not later than May 1, 2018, and May 1, 2020, the 
  Commission shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
  report on the effects on the United States economy of temporary duty 
  suspensions and reductions enacted pursuant to this Act, including a 
  broad assessment of the economic effects of such duty suspensions and 
  reductions on producers, purchasers, and consumers in the United 
  States, using case studies describing such effects on selected 
  industries or by type of article as available data permit.
      (b) Recommendations.--The Commission shall also solicit and append 
  to the report required under subsection (a) recommendations with 
  respect to those domestic industry sectors or specific domestic 
  industries that might benefit from permanent duty suspensions and 
  reductions or elimination of duties, either through a unilateral action 
  of the United States or though negotiations for reciprocal tariff 
  agreements, with a particular focus on inequities created by tariff 
  inversions.
      (c) Form of Report.--Each report required by this section shall be 
  submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
  
  SEC. 5. JUDICIAL REVIEW PRECLUDED.
  
      The exercise of functions under this Act shall not be subject to 
  judicial review.
  
  SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.
  
      In this Act:
              (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
          ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee on 
          Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the 
          Committee on Finance of the Senate.
              (2) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the United 
          States International Trade Commission.
              (3) Commission disclosure form.--The term ``Commission 
          disclosure form'' means, with respect to a proposed duty 
          suspension or reduction, a document submitted by a member of 
          the public to the Commission that contains the following:
                      (A) The contact information for any known importers 
                  of the article to which the proposed duty suspension or 
                  reduction would apply.
                      (B) A certification by the member of the public 
                  that the proposed duty suspension or reduction is 
                  available to any person importing the article to which 
                  the proposed duty suspension or reduction would apply.
              (4) Domestic producer.--The term ``domestic producer'' 
          means a person that demonstrates production, or imminent 
          production, in the United States of an article that is 
          identical to, or like or directly competitive with, an article 
          to which a proposed duty suspension or reduction would apply.
              (5) Duty suspension or reduction.--
                      (A) In general.--The term ``duty suspension or 
                  reduction'' means an amendment to subchapter II of 
                  chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
                  United States that--
                              (i)(I) extends an existing temporary duty 
                          suspension or reduction of duty on an article 
                          under that subchapter; or
                              (II) provides for a new temporary duty 
                          suspension or reduction of duty on an article 
                          under that subchapter; and
                              (ii) otherwise meets the requirements 
                          described in subparagraph (B).
                      (B) Requirements.--A duty suspension or reduction 
                  meets the requirements described in this subparagraph 
                  if--
                              (i) the duty suspension or reduction can be 
                          administered by U.S. Customs and Border 
                          Protection;
                              (ii) the estimated loss in revenue to the 
                          United States from the duty suspension or 
                          reduction does not exceed $500,000 in a 
                          calendar year during which the duty suspension 
                          or reduction would be in effect, as determined 
                          by the Congressional Budget Office; and
                              (iii) the duty suspension or reduction is 
                          available to any person importing the article 
                          that is the subject of the duty suspension or 
                          reduction.
              (6) Member of congress.--The term ``Member of Congress'' 
          means a Senator or a Representative in, or Delegate or Resident 
          Commissioner to, Congress.
              (7) Miscellaneous tariff bill.--The term ``miscellaneous 
          tariff bill'' means a bill of either House of Congress that 
          contains only--
                      (A) duty suspensions and reductions that--
                              (i) meet the applicable requirements for--
                                      (I) consideration of duty 
                                  suspensions and reductions described in 
                                  section 3; or
                                      (II) any other process required 
                                  under the Rules of the House of 
                                  Representatives or the Senate; and
                              (ii) are not the subject of an objection 
                          because such duty suspensions and reductions do 
                          not comply with the requirements of this Act 
                          from--
                                      (I) a Member of Congress; or
                                      (II) a domestic producer, as 
                                  contained in comments submitted to the 
                                  appropriate congressional committees, 
                                  the Commission, or the Department of 
                                  Commerce under section 3; and
                      (B) provisions included in bills introduced in the 
                  House of Representatives or the Senate pursuant to a 
                  process described in subparagraph (A)(i)(II) that 
                  correct an error in the text or administration of a 
                  provision of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
                  United States.
target: American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2015   It is the sense of Congress that it should consider a miscellaneous tariff bill not later than 180 days after the USITC and the Department of Commerce issue reports on any proposed duty suspensions and reductions.  The appropriate congressional committees shall establish, and publish on their publicly available websites, a process for the submission and consideration of legislation for proposed duty suspensions and reductions as well as a miscellaneous tariff bill including them, consistent with certain requirements.  The USITC shall report to Congress, by May 1, 2018, and May 1, 2020, on the effects of such suspensions and reductions on the U.S. economy.  The exercise of functions under this title shall not be subject to judicial review. 
feat_title: American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2015