1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Import Tax Relief Act of 2019 . 2. Process for excluding articles imported from the People’s Republic of China from certain duties imposed under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (a) Establishment of exclusion process Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President shall establish, in consultation with the United States International Trade Commission (in this section referred to as the Commission ), a process pursuant to which United States entities and associations of such entities may request the exclusion of articles imported from the People’s Republic of China from duties described in subsection (b). (b) Duties described The duties described in this subsection are duties imposed on or after September 24, 2018, pursuant to the investigation— (1) initiated under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2411 ) on August 18, 2017; and (2) with respect to which notice was published in the Federal Register on August 24, 2017 (82 Fed. Reg. 40213). (c) Implementation of exclusion process In implementing the process established under subsection (a), the President shall exclude from the imposition of a duty described subsection (b) an article imported from the People’s Republic of China if the President determines— (1) (A) the article is not commercially available (as defined by the Commission) outside of the People’s Republic of China, or is not produced outside of the People’s Republic of China at a cost-competitive price at commercial scale; (B) the imposition of the duty on the article would increase consumer prices for day-to-day items consumed by low- or middle-income families in the United States; or (C) the article has not been found by a Federal agency to have directly benefited from the non-market-based policies of the People’s Republic of China, including elements of the Made in China 2025 policy