[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 18, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1251-S1263]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 4535. Ms. ROSEN (for herself and Mr. Coons) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1383, to establish the
Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
TITLE __HOUSING TARIFF EXCLUSION ACT
SEC. __1. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ``Housing Tariff Exclusion
Act''.
SEC. __2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the United States is facing a severe housing
affordability crisis;
(2) the median price of a single-family home exceeds five
times the median household income, putting homeownership out
of reach for millions of hardworking people in the United
States;
(3) one of the primary drivers of the housing affordability
crisis is a shortage of supply of homes;
(4) impartial analysis shows that the United States housing
supply is 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 units short of long-run
demand;
(5) overcoming the housing affordability crisis requires
significant investment in home construction in the United
States;
(6) a wide range of products are necessary in the
construction of a new home, ranging from lumber and cement to
electrical and plumbing fixtures to cabinetry and drywall;
(7) while many of those products are produced in the United
States, the United States lacks sufficient production
capacity for all relevant products to meet the urgent need
for home construction, while some essential products are not
manufactured in the United States at all;
(8) according to nonpartisan research, tariffs on key
building materials as of the date of the enactment of this
Act will add billions of dollars to the cost of home
construction in the United States over the coming years; and
(9) those added costs will reduce home construction and
make it more expensive for people to buy or rent homes in the
United States.
SEC. __3. PROCESS FOR EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN ARTICLES USED IN
HOME CONSTRUCTION FROM CERTAIN DUTIES.
(a) Establishment.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary of Commerce shall establish a process
pursuant to which United States entities and associations of
such entities may request the exclusion of covered articles
from covered duties.
(b) Implementation.--In implementing the process
established under subsection (a), the Secretary shall exclude
from the imposition of a covered duty a covered article if--
(1) the covered article is a critical homebuilding product;
or
(2) the Secretary determines--
(A) the imposition of the duty on the article would
increase the cost of home construction in the United States;
and
(B) the exclusion of the article can likely be administered
by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
(c) Determination of Increased Home Construction Costs.--
The Secretary shall determine under subsection (b)(2)(A) that
the imposition of a covered duty on a covered article would
increase the cost of home construction in the United States
if imposition of the covered duty would cause an increase in
the cost of the covered article listed in Appendix 1 to
chapter 17 of the Handbook of Methods of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Department of Labor.
(d) Timely Adjudication.--In implementing the process
established under subsection (a), the Secretary shall
adjudicate exclusion requests not later than--
(1) for critical homebuilding products, 15 days after the
date on which the United States entity or association of
entities requests such exclusion; and
(2) for other covered articles, 60 days after the date on
which the United States entity or association of entities
requests such exclusion.
(e) Retroactive Application.--
(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, any entry of a covered article that would have been
subject to a lower rate of duty if the entry had been made
after the issuance of an exclusion of the article from the
imposition of a covered duty pursuant to the exclusion
process established under subsection (a) that was made--
(A) after the date of the enactment of this Act,
(B) after the imposition of the covered duty with respect
to that article, and
(C) before the issuance of the exclusion,
shall be liquidated or reliquidated as though the entry
occurred after the issuance of the exclusion.
(2) Requests.--A liquidation or reliquidation may be made
under paragraph (1) with respect to an entry of a covered
article only if a request therefor is filed with U.S. Customs
and Border Protection not later than 180 days after the
issuance of an exclusion described in paragraph (1) with
respect to that article that contains sufficient information
to enable U.S. Customs and Border Protection--
(A) to locate the entry; or
(B) to reconstruct the entry if it cannot be located.
(3) Payments of amounts owed.--Any amounts owed by the
United States pursuant to the liquidation or reliquidation of
an entry of an article under paragraph (1) shall be paid,
without interest, not later than 90 days after the date of
the liquidation or reliquidation (as the case may be).
(f) Transparency.--Not later than 15 days after the
adjudication of any request for exclusion from the imposition
of a covered duty pursuant to the exclusion process
established under subsection (a), the Secretary shall publish
the result of that adjudication on an internet website in an
accessible format.
(g) Reporting to Congress.--Not less frequently than
quarterly, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on
Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of
the House of Representatives a report on all requests for
exclusion from the imposition of a covered duty pursuant to
the exclusion process established under subsection (a)
adjudicated in the prior quarter, including an explanation of
any decision not to grant a request for exclusion.
(h) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Covered article.--The term ``covered article'' means
any product used in the construction or furnishing of a
single-family home or multi-family residential building and
includes any material or input used in the manufacture of any
such product.
(2) Covered duty.--The term ``covered duty'' means any duty
on an article in excess of the rate of duty in effect for
that article on January 19, 2025, but does not include--
(A) an antidumping or countervailing duty imposed under
title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.);
or
(B) a duty proclaimed pursuant to section 201 of the Trade
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2251).
(3) Critical homebuilding product.--The term ``critical
homebuilding product'' means any covered article classified
under any heading or subheading of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States listed in the following table:
Heading or subheading of Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
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(4) Entry.--The term ``entry'' includes a withdrawal from
warehouse for consumption.
(5) United states entity.--The term ``United States
entity'' means an entity organized under the laws of the
United States or any jurisdiction within the United States.
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