Bill > S1269

This bill, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, aims to improve and reauthorize various trade-related functions and activities. Key provisions include enhancing partnership programs between U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the private sector to streamline trade while ensuring security, establishing clearer priorities and performance standards for customs modernization, trade facilitation, and enforcement, and creating educational seminars for CBP personnel to improve their skills in classifying imported goods and enforcing trade laws. The bill also mandates joint strategic plans between CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to coordinate trade enforcement and facilitation efforts, and it updates funding and reporting requirements for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and the International Trade Data System (ITDS) to improve data sharing and processing. Furthermore, it strengthens protections for intellectual property rights by improving information exchange, allowing for the seizure of devices that circumvent copyright protection, and establishing a National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center. The bill also addresses evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties by creating new procedures for investigating such claims and requires annual reports on these efforts. It also includes provisions related to currency manipulation, the process for considering temporary duty suspensions and reductions, and miscellaneous trade provisions such as increasing the de minimis value for informal shipments and improving drawback and refund processes. Finally, it addresses issues related to the enforcement of labor laws, the collection of labor market information, and includes provisions related to currency undervaluation and trade enforcement priorities.