1. Short title This Act may be cited as the United States Trade Leadership in the Indo-Pacific Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The United States is an Indo-Pacific power. (2) The Indo-Pacific region, spanning from our Pacific Coastline to the Indian Ocean, is home to over half the world’s people, including nearly 60 percent of youth, and is at the center of the 21st-century global economy, accounting for 60 percent of global gross domestic product and two-thirds of the world’s economic growth in 2022. (3) The Indo-Pacific region also includes some of America’s closest military allies and partners, several of the world’s largest militaries, and 5 nations allied with the United States through mutual defense treaties. The region also contains strategic rivals with growing military capabilities, in particular the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Our partners are critical for responding to potential threats in the region, maintaining credible deterrence, and for fostering peace. (4) There is broad bipartisan agreement that the United States must have a strong and durable economic strategy in the Indo-Pacific to advance our commercial, geostrategic, and national security interests and support our allies and partners in the region. (5) This is especially true and increasingly urgent in the face of heightened aggression and pressure from the PRC, which seeks to expand its influence by actively pursuing trade agreements with key partners in the Indo-Pacific that establish preferential treatment for goods and services, deepen supply chain integration, and establish rules based on the PRC’s state-led authoritarian economic model that undercut America’s workers, businesses, and economic security. (6) For decades, the United States has sought to persuade the PRC to eliminate harmful trade practices and act responsibly within the global rules-based trading system. Unfortunately, the PRC has not substantially changed its behavior and has instead used forced labor, subsidies and overproduction, intellectual