; (B) cumulation; (C) co-creation; and (D) intra-regional trade, investment, and standards harmonization. (2) Report Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to Congress a report on the study conducted under paragraph (1). (d) Sense of Congress on retention of benefits and responsibilities It is the sense of Congress that Americas partner countries that benefit from free trade agreements with the United States or trade preferences programs of the United States will retain the benefits and responsibilities of those agreements until and unless they accede to the USMCA through the process developed pursuant to this section. 223. Americas Partnership Threshold Program (a) In general There is established within the Department of Commerce a program to be known as the Americas Partnership Threshold Program under which the Secretary of Commerce shall work with Americas partner countries— (1) to prepare those countries for a possible process for accession to the USMCA; and (2) to bring those countries up to the standards of the USMCA. (b) Assessment (1) In general In carrying out the program required under subsection (a), the United States Trade Representative shall conduct an assessment of each Americas partner country related to the trade-related standards of each such country, which shall include— (A) an identification of shortcomings that would impede accession to the USMCA; and (B) a programmatic strategy to bring each such country into compliance with the standards of the USMCA. (2) Submission of assessment The United States Trade Representative shall submit any assessment conducted under paragraph (1) to— (A) the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and the Executive Secretariat of the Department of Commerce