Sec. 3. Report on the competitiveness of domestic seafood producers in domestic and global seafood trade
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Congress a report on the competitiveness of domestic seafood producers in domestic and global seafood trade. The report required by subsection
(a)shall— identify Federal laws, regulations, and policies that directly affect the costs of domestic seafood production and seafood industry investment in the United States, compared to the costs of seafood production and investment in other seafood-producing countries; analyze the competitive position of United States seafood in domestic and global markets, given differences in tariffs and nontariff barriers among countries and changes in trade flows and market share over the last 5 years, highlighting the relative position of the United States compared to other seafood-producing countries; include an inventory and assessment of Federal domestic programs to help manage costs, facilitate and incentivize domestic capacity and modernization, and facilitate domestic and overseas market access for United States seafood producers, including— identification of programs available and unavailable to wild and farmed domestic seafood producers; recommendations to improve the utility of these programs for domestic seafood producers; and the financial health and stability of the Seafood Inspection Program as provider of seafood health and catch certificates and other services to domestic seafood producers and exporters; provide recommendations for a new National Seafood Trade Policy to improve the competitiveness of United States seafood producers, including— ways to facilitate interagency coordination under existing authorities and consultation with domestic seafood producers around common goals for seafood tariffs, nontariff barriers, and market access policy; domestic seafood cost control and investment programs; and domestic seafood producers’ access to financial support programs; identify trade barriers to United States seafood production that are vulnerable to dispute settlement through the World Trade Organization or otherwise under trade agreements; include a strategy for enforcing violations of trade agreements related to such trade barriers; and identify like-minded trading partners for specific trade barriers that could act as co-complainants or primary complainants on disputes that are systemically or economically important to the United States. Following the submission of the report required by subsection (a), the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Congress quarterly reports on progress towards resolving cases or filing disputes to resolve trade barriers described in subsection (b)(5).