112 STAT. 468 PUBLIC LAW 105-178-^JUNE 9, 1998 (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 PLAJJT. — A manufacturer may display separately on the label required by subsection (b) the domestic content of a vehicle based on the assembly pleuit. Such display shall occur after the matter required to be in the label by subsection (b)(l)(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.
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