Sec. 61201. Establishment of interagency task force to address Chinese market manipulation in the United States
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The Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of the Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and such other Federal agencies as the President determines appropriate shall establish a joint interagency task force to investigate allegations of systemic market manipulation and other potential violations of antitrust and competition laws in the United States by companies established in the People’s Republic of China, including allegations of efforts to illegally capture market share, fix or manipulate prices, and control the supply of goods in critical industries of the United States, including— the pharmaceutical and medical devices industry; the renewable energy industry; the steel and aluminum industries; and such other industries as the task force considers appropriate.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees— a briefing on the progress of the interagency task force and its findings as described in subsection (a); and recommendations to the committees on potential amendments to antitrust and competition laws in the United States that would strengthen the ability of United States antitrust enforcement agencies to bring actions against anticompetitive business practices by Chinese companies.
In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Finance, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives.