On May 27, 2021, the Senate voted to amend the United States Innovation and Competition Act (the Act), formerly the Endless Frontier Act, a bill that started as an effort to increase the United States’ competitive advantage in the world through investments in research and technology, but that has morphed into a broad China-centered legislative package including trade components. Included in the package is an amendment, entitled the Trade Act of 2021, which would allow substantial opportunities for importers to obtain relief from the Section 301 tariffs currently imposed on certain Chinese-origin products. The amendment, a bipartisan compromise between Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), would renew and extend expired exclusions to tariffs on Chinese goods resulting from the