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The bill directs a public study that could identify reshoring opportunities to boost supply resilience and domestic jobs, but those gains may come with higher consumer prices, potential taxpayer costs, infrastructure strain for rural areas, and limits to the study's accuracy if firms withhold data.
Middle-class-families — could see greater supply resilience and fewer product shortages if the study identifies high‑demand imports that can be onshored.
Construction-workers, transportation-workers, and small-business-owners — could gain new domestic manufacturing job opportunities if recommendations prompt reshoring of feasible products.
State-governments and small-business-owners — will have better, publicly available information for policy and investment decisions because the report must include recommendations and be published within 18 months.
Middle-class-families — could face higher retail prices if onshoring recommendations lead to domestic production that is more expensive than imports.
Taxpayers — could bear increased fiscal costs if policymakers follow recommendations with subsidy or incentive programs to support domestic manufacturing.
State-governments and small-business-owners — could get an incomplete or less accurate study if private companies withhold proprietary data because the Secretary cannot compel information.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs Commerce to study manufacturing gaps across 16 critical infrastructure sectors and report feasibility, costs/benefits, and recommendations within 18 months.
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to study U.S. manufacturing gaps for products across the 16 designated critical infrastructure sectors and report findings and recommendations to Congress. The study must identify high‑demand imported products caused by domestic manufacturing or supply‑chain limits, assess onshoring costs and benefits (including job and price impacts), determine which products could feasibly be made in the U.S., and analyze feasibility and barriers to producing them in rural areas, industrial parks, and rural industrial parks, with timelines for submission tied to enactment.
Introduced February 27, 2025 by Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Last progress April 29, 2025