This bill directs the Secretary of Commerce to carry out a study on whether the United States can manufacture certain high‑demand products used by critical infrastructure sectors. The study must, within one year of enactment, identify products that are being imported because of U.S. manufacturing, material, or supply chain limits. It must analyze costs and benefits of U.S. production for those products, including effects on jobs, employment rates, labor conditions, and product prices. The study must also identify which of those products could feasibly be made in the United States and analyze feasibility and any barriers to making them in (A) rural areas, (B) industrial parks, and (C) industrial parks located in rural areas. The Secretary must submit a report with the study results and recommendations to Congress and post the report on the Department of Commerce website within 18 months of enactment. The bill says the Secretary cannot be given authority to force people to provide information for the study. The term "critical infrastructure sector" means the 16 sectors named in Presidential Policy Directive 21 (February 12, 2013).
If this bill becomes law, the Department of Commerce will study which critical infrastructure products the U.S. imports because it cannot make them here and whether it would be practical to make them in the United States. The work must finish within set timeframes and the report will be public. The bill itself does not require companies to change operations or impose new rules; it only directs a government study and report. The Secretary may not compel people to provide information for the study.
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No publicly available information in the bill text or metadata describes supporters' arguments or stated benefits beyond the study requirements and deadlines.
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