Improved Access to Trade Adjustment Assistance Act

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This bill expands eligibility for trade adjustment assistance, which is federal aid provided to workers who lose their jobs or whose hours of work and wages are reduced as a result of increased imports.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Sep 14, 2021

Improved Access to Trade Adjustment Assistance Act

Specifically, the bill makes workers of a firm with sales or production that failed to increase or will decrease absolutely due to a scheduled or imminently anticipated, long-term decrease in or reallocation of the production capacity of the firm eligible for trade adjustment assistance. Currently, this assistance is only available if a firm's sales or production have decreased absolutely.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Improved Access to Trade Adjustment Assistance Act

Latest action (Sep 14, 2021): Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance · Origin: House · Introduced: Sep 14, 2021

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.