MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS.

SEC. 7106. MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS. (a) Remedies for Defects and Noncompliance.— Section 30120(i)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting “(including retailers of motor vehicle equipment)” after “dealer” the first time it appears. (b) Tires.— Section 30123 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking subsections (a), (b), and (c) and by redesignating subsections (d), (e), and (f), as subsections (a), (b), and (c), respectively. (c) Automatic Occupant Crash Protection and Seat Belt Use.— Section 30127(g)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking “every 6 months” and inserting “annually”. (d) Miscellaneous.— (1) Definitions.— (A) Country of origin.— Section 32304(a)(3)(B) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting before the period the following: “, plus the assembly and labor costs incurred for the final assembly of such engines and transmissions”. 112 STAT. 468 (B) Final assembly place.— Section 32304(a)(5) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “Such term does not include facilities for engine and transmission fabrication and assembly and the facilities for fabrication of motor vehicle equipment component parts which are produced at the same final assembly place using forming processes such as stamping, machining, or molding processes.”. (C) Outside supplier content reporting.— Section 32304(a)(9)(A) of title 49, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “(A) for an outside supplier— “(i) the full purchase price of passenger motor vehicle equipment whose purchase price contains at least 70 percent value added in the United States and Canada; or “(ii) that portion of the purchase price of passenger motor vehicle equipment containing less than 70 percent value added in the United States and Canada that is attributable to the percent value added in the United States and Canada when such percent is expressed to the nearest 5 percent; and”. (2) Country of assembly.— Section 32304(d) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “A manufacturer may add to the label required under subsection (b) a line stating the country in which vehicle assembly was completed.”. (3) Vehicle content percentage by assembly plant.— Section 32304 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by redesignating subsections (c) through (f) as subsections (f) through (i), respectively, and by adding after subsection (b) the following: “(c) Vehicle Content Percentage by Assembly Plant.— A manufacturer may display separately on the label required by subsection (b) the domestic content of a vehicle based on the assembly plant. Such display shall occur after the matter required to be in the label by subsection (b)(1)(A).”. (4) Suppliers failing to report.— Section 32304 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding after subsection (c), as added by paragraph (3), the following: “(d) Value Added Determination.— If a manufacturer or allied supplier requests information in a timely manner from one or more of its outside suppliers concerning the United States/Canadian content of particular equipment, but does not receive that information despite a good faith effort to obtain it, the manufacturer or allied supplier may make its own good faith value added determinations, subject to the following: “(1) The manufacturer or allied supplier shall make the same value added determinations as would be made by the outside supplier, that is, whether 70 percent or more of the value of equipment is added in the United States and/or Canada. “(2) The manufacturer or allied supplier shall consider the amount of value added and the location in which the value was added for all of the stages that the outside supplier would be required to consider. 112 STAT. 469 “(3) The manufacturer or allied supplier may determine that the value added in the United States and/or Canada is 70 percent or more only if it has a good faith basis to make that determination. “(4) A manufacturer and its allied suppliers may, on a combined basis, make value added determinations for no more than 10 percent, by value, of a carline’s total parts content from outside suppliers. “(5) Value added determinations made by a manufacturer or allied supplier under this paragraph shall have the same effect as if they were made by the outside supplier. “(6) This provision does not affect the obligation of outside suppliers to provide the requested information.”. (5) Accounting for the value of small parts.— Section 32304 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding after subsection (d), as added by paragraph (4), the following: “(e) Small Parts.— The country of origin of nuts, bolts, clips, screws, pins, braces, gasoline, oil, blackout, phosphate rinse, windshield washer fluid, fasteners, tire assembly fluid, rivets, adhesives, and grommets, of any system, subassembly, or component installed in a vehicle shall be considered to be the country in which such parts were included in the final assembly of such vehicle.”. (e) Study.— The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shall conduct a study of the benefits to motor vehicle drivers of a regulation to require the installation in a motor vehicle of an interior device to release the trunk lid. Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administration shall submit a report on the results of the study to the Committee on Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.