; (ii) the United States textile and apparel sector; (iii) the textile and apparel sectors of all countries that are Americas partner countries at the time when the study is commissioned; and (iv) the textile and apparel sectors of all six Latin American and Caribbean countries that belonged to the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement as of February 2024, referring to Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. (c) Study (1) In general The Secretary of the Treasury shall conduct a study on the feasibility and advisability of expanding the USMCA or carrying out other trade-related approaches for— (A) harmonization; (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 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 that express an interest in potentially acceding to the USMCA— (1) to prepare those countries for a possible process for accession to the USMCA; (2) to bring those countries up to the standards of the USMCA