119-s816

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 816 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 816

To increase United States jobs through greater United States exports to 
 Africa and Latin America, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 3, 2025

 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Boozman, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Cassidy, and 
 Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

 A BILL

To increase United States jobs through greater United States exports to 
 Africa and Latin America, 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.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Increasing American Jobs Through 
Greater United States Exports to Africa and Latin America Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. INVESTMENT, TRADE, AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA 
 AND THE CARIBBEAN.

    (a) Strategy Required.--

    (1) In general.--The President shall establish a 
 comprehensive United States strategy for public and private 
 investment, trade, and development in Africa and Latin America 
 and the Caribbean.

    (2) Focus of strategy.--The strategy required by paragraph

    (1) shall focus on increasing exports of United States goods 
 and services to Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean by 
 200 percent in real dollar value by the date that is 10 years 
 after the date of the enactment of this Act.

    (3) Consultations.--In developing the strategy required by 
 paragraph

    (1) , the President shall consult with--
        (A) Congress;
        (B) each agency that is a member of the Trade 
 Promotion Coordinating Committee;
            (C) the relevant multilateral development banks, in 
 coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
 respective United States Executive Directors of such 
 banks;
            (D) each agency that participates in the Trade 
 Policy Staff Committee;
        (E) the President's Export Council;
        (F) each of the development agencies;
        (G) any other Federal agencies with responsibility 
 for export promotion or financing and development; and
        (H) the private sector, including businesses, 
 nongovernmental organizations, and African and Latin 
 American and Caribbean diaspora groups.

    (4) Submission to appropriate congressional committees.--
        (A) Strategy.--Not later than 200 days after the 
 date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall 
 submit to the appropriate congressional committees the 
 strategy required by subsection

    (a) .
        (B) Progress report.--Not later than 3 years after 
 the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 
 shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
 committees a report on the implementation of the 
 strategy required by paragraph

    (1) .

    (b) Special Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean Export 
Strategy Coordinators.--The Secretary of Commerce shall designate an 
official of the Department of Commerce to serve as Special Africa 
Export Strategy Coordinator and an official of the Department to serve 
as Special Latin America and the Caribbean Export Strategy 
Coordinator--

    (1) to oversee the development and implementation of the 
 strategy required by subsection

    (a) ;

    (2) to coordinate developing and implementing the strategy 
 with--
        (A) the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee;
        (B) the Director General for the United States and 
 Foreign Commercial Service and Assistant Secretary of 
 Commerce for Global Markets;
            (C) the Assistant United States Trade 
 Representative for African Affairs or the Assistant 
 United States Trade Representative for the Western 
 Hemisphere, as appropriate;
            (D) the Assistant Secretary of State for African 
 Affairs or the Assistant Secretary of State for Western 
 Hemisphere Affairs, as appropriate;
        (E) the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural 
 Service of the Department of Agriculture;
        (F) the Export-Import Bank of the United States;
        (G) the United States International Development 
 Finance Corporation; and
        (H) the development agencies; and

    (3) to consider and reflect on the impact of the promotion 
 of exports of goods and services from the United States on the 
 economies of and employment opportunities in the countries 
 importing those goods and services, with a view toward 
 improving secure supply chains, avoiding economic disruptions, 
 and stabilizing economic growth through a trade and export 
 strategy.
            (c) Trade Missions to Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.--
It is the sense of Congress that, not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce and other 
high-level officials of the United States Government with 
responsibility for export promotion, financing, and development should 
conduct joint trade missions to Africa and to Latin America and the 
Caribbean.
            (d) Training.--The President shall develop a plan--

    (1) to standardize the training received by United States 
 and Foreign Commercial Service officers, economic officers of 
 the Department of State, and economic officers of the United 
 States Agency for International Development with respect to the 
 programs and procedures of the Export-Import Bank of the United 
 States, the United States International Development Finance 
 Corporation, the Small Business Administration, and the United 
 States Trade and Development Agency; and

    (2) to ensure that, not later than one year after the date 
 of the enactment of this Act--
        (A) all United States and Foreign Commercial 
 Service officers that are stationed overseas receive 
 the training described in paragraph

    (1) ; and
        (B) in the case of a country to which no United 
 States and Foreign Commercial Service officer is 
 assigned, any economic officer of the Department of 
 State stationed in that country receives that training.

    (e) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
 ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
        (A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
 Affairs, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
 Transportation, the Committee on Finance, and the 
 Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
        (B) the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the 
 Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Ways 
 and Means of the House of Representatives.

    (2) Development agencies.--The term ``development 
 agencies'' means the United States Department of State, the 
 United States Agency for International Development, the 
 Millennium Challenge Corporation, the United States 
 International Development Finance Corporation, the United 
 States Trade and Development Agency, the United States 
 Department of Agriculture, and relevant multilateral 
 development banks.

    (3) Multilateral development banks.--The term 
 ``multilateral development banks'' has the meaning given that 
 term in 

section 1701
            (c) (4) of the International Financial 
 Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r
            (c) (4) ) and includes the 
 African Development Foundation.

    (4) Trade policy staff committee.--The term ``Trade Policy 
 Staff Committee'' means the Trade Policy Staff Committee 
 established pursuant to 

section 2002.2 of title 15, Code of 
 Federal Regulations.

    (5) Trade promotion coordinating committee.--The term 
 ``Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee'' means the Trade 
 Promotion Coordinating Committee established under 

section 2312 
 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4727).

    (6) United states and foreign commercial service.--The term 
 ``United States and Foreign Commercial Service'' means the 
 United States and Foreign Commercial Service established by 
 

section 2301 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 
 4721).
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