[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2413 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2413

    To exclude the imposition of duties and import quotas from the 
authorities provided to the President under the International Emergency 
                          Economic Powers Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 1, 2019

   Mr. Carper (for himself, Mr. Toomey, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Lee, Mr. 
    Jones, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Menendez, and Ms. Hassan) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To exclude the imposition of duties and import quotas from the 
authorities provided to the President under 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 ``Trade Certainty Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF IMPOSITION OF DUTIES AND IMPORT QUOTAS FROM 
              PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITIES UNDER 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 duties or tariff-rate quotas 
or (subject to paragraph (2)) other quotas on articles 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.''.
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