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Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes on Imported Goods Act of 2025
To exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Summary
This bill would amend the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to remove the President's authority to impose or increase tariffs and tariff-rate quotas during national emergencies. The President would retain the ability to completely ban imports from certain countries, but could not use emergency powers to impose partial tariffs on imports. The bill does not affect the President's tariff authority under other laws outside of emergency declarations. This limitation would apply only to tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, not other statutes that grant tariff authority.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] (D-NH)
4 cosponsors
- Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD] (D-MD)
- Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA] (D-VA)
- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT)
- Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR)
Actions (2)
- Jan 17, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. · senate
- Jan 17, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 17, 2025
Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Kaine) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
A BILL
To exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes on Imported Goods Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE DUTIES AND TARIFF-RATE QUOTAS FROM INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY ECONOMIC POWERS ACT.
Section 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
“(c)(1) The authority granted to the President by this section does not include the authority to impose or increase a duty, or to impose a tariff-rate quota, on an article entering the United States.
“(2) The limitation under paragraph (1) does not prohibit the President from excluding all articles, or all of a certain type of article, imported from a country from entering the United States.”. <all>
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