Official Summaries

Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes on Imported Goods Act of 2025

This bill prohibits the President from exercising authorities under the 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.)

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 151 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 151

 To exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from 
            the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.


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                   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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from 
            the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes 
on Imported Goods Act of 2025''.

SEC. 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.''.
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