Definitions

In this Act: (1) Appropriate congressional committees and leadership The term appropriate congressional committees and leadership means— (A) the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate; and (B) the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the Senate, and the minority leader of the Senate. (2) Nontariff barrier The term nontariff barrier includes any government-imposed measure or policy, other than a customs duty, that restricts, prevents, or impedes international trade in goods, including import policies, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, government procurement, export subsidies, lack of intellectual property protection, digital trade barriers, and government-tolerated anticompetitive conduct of state-owned or private firms. (3) Rate of duty The term rate of duty means the rate of customs duty applied on imports of a good, but does not include an antidumping or countervailing duty or a duty applied under a preferential tariff arrangement.