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119th CONGRESS
1st Session |
To exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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
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,
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.”.