Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Funding for ITEC, USTR, Etc.

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved April 19, 2012, a 2013 appropriations draft bill to fund the new Interagency Trade Enforcement Center (ITEC). The bill would give $24.2 million to the Commerce Department and $1.8 million to the USTR for the creation of ITEC, equaling the administration's full requested amount of $26 million. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and related agencies proposed the bill earlier this week.

The Departments of Commerce and Justice and Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2013 also provides $496 million in funding for the International Trade Administration, $31 million more than the fiscal year 2012. The bill would give International Trade Commission $82.8 million for 2013, a $2.8 million increase. The bill also provides $53 million for the office of the U.S. Trade Representatives, up $1.8 million from the 2012 level. The spending bill would also provides no less than $7 million for the Office of China Compliance, and no less than $4.4 million for the China Countervailing Duty Group. The bill also directs ITA's Import Administration to continue working with Federal partners to resolve issues surrounding the collection of delinquent duties from China.

The Departments of Commerce and Justice and Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2013 is available by emailing documents@brokerpower.com.

(See ITT's Online Archives 12041755 for the initial summary of the appropriations subcommittee bill.)