Trade Certainty Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2413
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2019-08-01
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Tariffs

War and emergency powers
Latest action: action_date: 2019-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-08-01
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Trade Certainty Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill limits the President's authority to use emergency economic powers to impose duties or tariffs on items entering the United States.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2413 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Trade Certainty Act of 2019 . 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. .