IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4183 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 16, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To authorize appropriations for the Federal Maritime Com-
mission for fiscal years 2026 through 2027, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Maritime 
Commission Reauthorization Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 4. Purposes. 
Sec. 5. Definitions. 
Sec. 6. Complaints against shipping exchanges. 
Sec. 7. Repeal. 
Sec. 8. Data collection. 
Sec. 9. Investigations. 
Sec. 10. National advisory committees. 
Sec. 11. Annual report and public disclosures. 
Sec. 12. Containerized freight indexes. 
Sec. 13. Technical amendments. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 46108 of title 46, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘$32,869,000 for fiscal year 2022, 
$38,260,000 for fiscal year 2023, $43,720,000 for fiscal 
year 2024, and $49,200,000 for fiscal year 2025’’ and in-
serting 
‘‘$49,200,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2026, 
and 
$49,200,000 for fiscal year 2027’’. 
SEC. 4. PURPOSES. 
Section 40101 of title 46, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘in the ocean 
commerce of the United States’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
the common carriage of goods by water in the for-
eign commerce of the United States’’; and 
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(2) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘promote’’ and 
inserting ‘‘support’’. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 40102(9) of title 46, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B) by striking the period 
and inserting ‘‘; or’’; 
(2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and 
(B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and by ad-
justing the margins accordingly; 
(3) by striking ‘‘means an ocean common car-
rier’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘means— 
‘‘(A) an ocean common carrier’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) such a carrier that is owned or con-
trolled by, a subsidiary of, or otherwise related 
legally or financially (other than a minority re-
lationship or investment) to a corporation based 
in, headquartered in, or otherwise significantly 
linked to a country— 
‘‘(i) identified as a nonmarket econ-
omy country (as defined in section 771(18) 
of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
1677(18))) as of the date of enactment of 
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the Federal Maritime Commission Reau-
thorization Act of 2025; 
‘‘(ii) identified by the United States 
Trade Representative on the priority watch 
list included in the most recent report re-
quired by section 182 of the Trade Act of 
1974 (19 U.S.C. 2242) as a priority for-
eign country under subsection (a)(2) of 
that section; or 
‘‘(iii) subject to monitoring by the 
United States Trade Representative under 
section 306 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 
U.S.C. 2416).’’. 
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
46106(b)(7) of title 46, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ‘‘ocean common carriers, particularly such car-
riers that are controlled carriers’’ and all that follows 
through the period at the end and inserting ‘‘controlled 
carriers;’’. 
SEC. 6. COMPLAINTS AGAINST SHIPPING EXCHANGES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 40504(c) of title 46, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the subsection heading by inserting ‘‘AND 
INVESTIGATION’’ after ‘‘EXEMPTION’’; 
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