United States S 1272: Trade Review Act of 2025

Bill Text

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119TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION S. 1272
To provide for notification to, and review by, Congress with respect to the
imposition of duties.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
APRIL 3, 2025
Ms. CANTWELL (for herself, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. MORAN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR,
Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. WARNER, Mr. MCCONNELL, and Mr. BENNET) in-
troduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com-
mittee on Finance
A BILL
To provide for notification to, and review by, Congress with
respect to the imposition of duties.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Trade Review Act of 4
2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. REVIEW BY CONGRESS OF IMPOSITION OF DUTIES. 6
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 5 of title I of the Trade 7
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2191 et seq.) is amended by add-8
ing at the end the following: 9
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‘‘SEC. 155. REVIEW OF IMPOSITION OF DUTIES. 1
‘‘(a) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 2
48 hours after imposing or increasing a duty with respect 3
to an article imported into the United States, the Presi-4
dent shall submit to Congress a notification of the imposi-5
tion of or increase in the duty that includes— 6
‘‘(1) an explanation of the reasoning for impos-7
ing or increasing the duty; and 8
‘‘(2) an assessment of the potential impact of 9
imposing or increasing the duty on United States 10
businesses and consumers. 11
‘‘(b) EXPIRATION OF DUTIES; EXTENSION BY CON-12
GRESS.—Any duty on an article imported into the United 13
States shall remain in effect for a period of not more than 14
60 days, unless there is enacted into law a joint resolution 15
of approval with respect to the duty under subsection (e). 16
‘‘(c) DISAPPROVAL BY CONGRESS.—If a joint resolu-17
tion of disapproval with respect to a duty is enacted into 18
law under subsection (e), the duty shall cease to have force 19
or effect. 20
‘‘(d) EXCLUSION OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTER-21
VAILING DUTIES.—This section does not apply with re-22
spect to antidumping and countervailing duties imposed 23
under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 24
et seq.). 25
‘‘(e) JOINT RESOLUTIONS.— 26
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‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 1
‘‘(A) JOINT RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL.— 2
The term ‘joint resolution of approval’ means a 3
joint resolution the sole matter after the resolv-4
ing clause of which is as follows: ‘That Con-5
gress approves the duty imposed with respect to 6
lll, notice of which was submitted to Con-7
gress on llllll.’, with the first blank 8
space being filled with a description of the arti-9
cle and the second blank space being filled with 10
the date of the notification under subsection 11
(a). 12
‘‘(B) JOINT RESOLUTION OF DIS-13
APPROVAL.—The term ‘joint resolution of dis-14
approval’ means a joint resolution the sole mat-15
ter after the resolving clause of which is as fol-16
lows: ‘That Congress disapproves the duty im-17
posed with respect to lll, notice of which 18
was submitted to Congress on llllll.’, 19
with the first blank space being filled with a de-20
scription of the article and the second blank 21
space being filled with the date of the notifica-22
tion under subsection (a). 23
‘‘(2) INTRODUCTION.— 24
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‘‘(A) JOINT RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL.— 1
A joint resolution of approval may be intro-2
duced in either House of Congress by any Mem-3
ber during the 60-day period described in sub-4
section (b). 5
‘‘(B) JOINT RESOLUTION OF DIS-6
APPROVAL.—A joint resolution of disapproval 7
may be introduced in either House of Congress 8
by any Member at any time after the submis-9
sion of a notification under subsection (a). 10
‘‘(3) EXPEDITED PROCEDURES.—The provi-11
sions of subsections (b) through (f) of section 152 12
(19 U.S.C. 2192) apply to a joint resolution of ap-13
proval or joint resolution of disapproval to the same 14
extent that such subsections apply to joint resolu-15
tions under section 152. 16
‘‘(4) RULES OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE 17
OF REPRESENTATIVES.—This subsection is enacted 18
by Congress— 19
‘‘(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking 20
power of the Senate and the House of Rep-21
resentatives, respectively, and as such is deemed 22
a part of the rules of each House, respectively, 23
but applicable only with respect to the proce-24
dure to be followed in that House in the case 25
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