Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Jobs and Trade Competitiveness Act The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. Title I—Office of the Congressional Trade Enforcer Sec. 101. Establishment. Sec. 102. Congressional Trade Enforcer. Sec. 103. Personnel. Sec. 104. Functions. Sec. 105. Office of Market Access Assistance. Sec. 106. Relationship to executive branch. Title II—Trade Enforcement Division and Deputy United States Trade Representative for Trade Enforcement Sec. 201.
Establishment of Trade Enforcement Division and Deputy United States Trade Representative for Trade Enforcement. Sec. 202. Establishment of Chief Manufacturing Negotiator. Title III—Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO Dispute Settlement Sec. 301. Congressional findings and purpose. Sec. 302. Establishment of Commission. Sec. 303. Duties of the Commission. Sec. 304. Powers of the Commission. Sec. 305. Participation in WTO panel proceedings. Sec. 306. Definitions. Title IV—Imposition of countervailing duties to address subsidies relating to fundamentally undervalued currencies Sec. 401.
Clarification regarding definition of countervailable subsidy. Sec. 402. Report on implementation of title. Sec. 403. Application to goods from Canada and Mexico. Title V—Procedures for investigating claims of evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders Sec. 501. Protection of business proprietary information. Sec. 502. Application to Canada and Mexico. Title VI—Matters to encourage domestic insourcing and discourage foreign outsourcing Sec. 601. Credit for insourcing expenses.
Sec. 602. Denial of deduction for outsourcing expenses. Title VII—Matters relating to environmental protections Sec. 701. Environmental protection in trade relations. Sec. 702. Identification of foreign country trade practices that negatively affect the environment. Title VIII—Other matters Sec. 801. Modification of availability of amounts from Trade Enforcement Trust Fund. Sec. 802. Government Accountability Office report on commitments under certain international fora. Sec. 803.
Government Accountability Office report on enforcement of child labor prohibition. Sec. 804. Congressional advisory groups on enforcement.