Prevent Tariff Abuse Act

Bill: 119-hr-407
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-15
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Tariffs

Trade restrictions
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Prevent Tariff Abuse Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the President from exercising authorities under the&nbsp;International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose duties, tariff-rate quotas, or other quotas on imports entering the United States. (IEEPA provides the President with broad authority to regulate various economic transactions following a declaration of a national emergency.)</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 407 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 15, 2025 Ms. DelBene (for herself, Mr. Beyer , Mr. Panetta , Mr. Schneider , Ms. Chu , Mr. Larson of Connecticut , Ms. Sewell , Mr. Horsford , Ms. Salinas , Mr. Larsen of Washington , and Mr. Kennedy of New York ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs , and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 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 Prevent Tariff Abuse Act . 2. Prohibition on the imposition of import duties and quotas from presidential authorities under the 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) The authority granted to the President by this section does not include the authority to impose duties, tariff-rate quotas, or other quotas on articles entering the United States. .