1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fair Trade Accessibility and Accountability Act of 2017 . 2. Assistance to small firms to file petitions for countervailing duty investigations and antidumping duty investigations under the Tariff Act of 1930 (a) In general The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Under Secretary for International Trade, shall provide financial assistance to small firms to assist such firms to prepare and file petitions (other than those petitions which, in the opinion of the Secretary, are frivolous) to seek to obtain the remedies and benefits available under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 ( 19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.; relating to the imposition of countervailing duties and antidumping duties). (b) Application and affirmative determination with respect to petition The Secretary of Commerce may provide assistance under subsection (a) to a small firm if— (1) the firm submits to the Secretary an application for such assistance at such time and in such form as the Secretary may require; and (2) (A) in the case of assistance relating to a petition filed under section 702(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930 ( 19 U.S.C. 1671a(b) ), the administering authority makes an affirmative determination with respect to the petition under section 702(c)(2) of such section