Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes on Imported Goods Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-151
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-01-17
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Tariffs
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes on Imported Goods Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the President from exercising authorities under the&nbsp;International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose or increase duties or impose tariff-rate quotas on imports entering the United States. However, this limitation 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. (IEEPA provides the President with broad authority to regulate various economic transactions following a declaration of a national emergency.)</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 151 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 17, 2025 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 A BILL To exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes on Imported Goods Act of 2025 . 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. .