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The bill aims to guide reshoring and reduce regulatory barriers by producing a public, targeted Commerce study that could create actionable opportunities for manufacturers and rural communities, but it consumes federal resources and risks producing incomplete findings or encouraging protectionist or regionally uneven outcomes.
State and local governments, manufacturers, and workers get clearer, actionable targets for reshoring critical products because Commerce will identify high‑demand imported items across 16 infrastructure sectors.
Policymakers and domestic producers can better reduce barriers and lower costs because the report will identify federal policies that raise manufacturing costs.
Rural communities and rural industrial parks could attract new manufacturing jobs because the study analyzes feasibility and impediments to producing feasible products in rural areas.
Policymakers and businesses may get incomplete or biased findings because Commerce cannot compel private firms to provide information, limiting the report's usefulness.
Consumers and taxpayers could face higher prices if recommendations lead to protectionist industrial policies that increase domestic production costs.
The study will consume federal resources and Commerce staff time, imposing administrative costs on taxpayers without any guarantee of follow‑through or policy action.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to carry out a government-wide study to identify, across the 16 Presidential Policy Directive 21 critical infrastructure sectors, products that the U.S. currently imports because of domestic manufacturing, material, or supply-chain limits. The study must assess which products are in high demand, analyze costs and benefits of producing them in the U.S. (including effects on jobs, labor conditions, and product cost), determine which products are feasibly manufacturable domestically, evaluate feasibility and barriers to producing those items in rural areas and industrial parks, and identify federal policies or regulations that increase manufacturing costs. The study must be completed within one year of enactment and an unclassified report (with an optional classified annex) provided to Congress and posted publicly within 18 months. The Secretary may not compel private parties to provide information for the study.
Introduced May 22, 2025 by Joni Ernst · Last progress November 10, 2025