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Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015

114th Congress · Approved Jun 29, 2015 · 129 Stat. 362

An Act

To extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the Generalized System of Preferences, the preferential duty treatment program for Haiti, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short Title; Table of Contents.

(a)
Short Title.— This Act may be cited as the “Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015”.
(b)
Table of Contents.— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I— EXTENSION OF AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT

Sec. 101. Short title.

Sec. 102. Findings.

Sec. 103. Extension of African Growth and Opportunity Act.

Sec. 104. Modifications of rules of origin for duty-free treatment for articles of beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries under Generalized System of Preferences.

Sec. 105. Monitoring and review of eligibility under Generalized System of Preferences.

Sec. 106. Promotion of the role of women in social and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Sec. 107. Biennial AGOA utilization strategies.

Sec. 108. Deepening and expanding trade and investment ties between sub-Saharan Africa and the United States.

Sec. 109. Agricultural technical assistance for sub-Saharan Africa.

Sec. 110. Reports.

Sec. 111. Technical amendments.

Sec. 112. Definitions.

TITLE II— EXTENSION OF GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES

Sec. 201. Extension of Generalized System of Preferences.

Sec. 202. Authority to designate certain cotton articles as eligible articles only for least-developed beneficiary developing countries under Generalized System of Preferences.

Sec. 203. Application of competitive need limitation and waiver under Generalized System of Preferences with respect to articles of beneficiary developing countries exported to the United States during calendar year 2014.

Sec. 204. Eligibility of certain luggage and travel articles for duty-free treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences.

TITLE III— EXTENSION OF PREFERENTIAL DUTY TREATMENT PROGRAM FOR HAITI

Sec. 301. Extension of preferential duty treatment program for Haiti.

TITLE IV— EXTENSION OF TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE

Sec. 401. Short title.

Sec. 402. Application of provisions relating to trade adjustment assistance.

Sec. 403. Extension of trade adjustment assistance program.

Sec. 404. Performance measurement and reporting.

Sec. 405. Applicability of trade adjustment assistance provisions.

Sec. 406. Sunset provisions.

Sec. 407. Extension and modification of Health Coverage Tax Credit.

TITLE V— IMPROVEMENTS TO ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY LAWS

Sec. 501. Short title.

Sec. 502. Consequences of failure to cooperate with a request for information in a proceeding.

Sec. 503. Definition of material injury.

Sec. 504. Particular market situation.

Sec. 505. Distortion of prices or costs.

Sec. 506. Reduction in burden on Department of Commerce by reducing the number of voluntary respondents.

Sec. 507. Application to Canada and Mexico.

TITLE VI— TARIFF CLASSIFICATION OF CERTAIN ARTICLES

Sec. 601. Tariff classification of recreational performance outerwear.

Sec. 602. Duty treatment of protective active footwear.

TITLE VII— MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Sec. 701. Report on contribution of trade preference programs to reducing poverty and eliminating hunger.

TITLE VIII— OFFSETS

Sec. 801. Customs user fees extension.

Sec. 802. Additional customs user fees extension.

Sec. 803. Time for payment of corporate estimated taxes.

Sec. 804. Payee statement required to claim certain education tax benefits.

Sec. 805. Special rule for educational institutions unable to collect TINs of individuals with respect to higher education tuition and related expenses.

Sec. 806. Penalty for failure to file correct information returns and provide payee statements.

Sec. 807. Child tax credit not refundable for taxpayers electing to exclude foreign earned income from tax.

Sec. 808. Coverage and payment for renal dialysis services for individuals with acute kidney injury.