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A bill to amend the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 to clarify the definition of manipulation with respect to currency, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 17, 2005 Introduced by: Schumer, Charles E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
May 17, 2005
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 with respect to bilateral negotiations with countries considered to manipulate the rate of exchange between their currency and the U.S. dollar for purposes of preventing effective balance of payments adjustments or gaining unfair competitive advantage in international trade.

Reduces the preconditions for the initiation of negotiations by the Secretary of the Treasury to possession of significant bilateral trade surpluses with the United States (removing the other current condition of possession of material global current account surpluses).

Declares that a country shall be considered to be manipulating the rate of exchange between its currency and the U.S. dollar if there is a protracted large-scale intervention in one direction in the exchange markets.

Requires the Secretary's annual report to specified congressional committees on international economic policy to include a detailed explanation of the test the Secretary uses to determine whether or not a country is manipulating the rate of exchange.

What's happening now May 17, 2005

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1048: A bill to amend the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 to clarify the definition of manipulation with respect to currency, and for other purposes.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-1048/
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"S. 1048: A bill to amend the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 to clarify the definition of manipulation with respect to currency, and for other purposes.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-1048/.
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S. 1048, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-1048/.
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