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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2665
To provide for notification to, and review by, Congress with respect to the
imposition of duties.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL7, 2025
Mr. B
ACON(for himself, Mr. HURDof Colorado, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, and Mr.
M
EEKS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules,
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 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
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SEC. 2. REVIEW BY CONGRESS OF IMPOSITION OF DUTIES. 1
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 5 of title I of the Trade 2
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2191 et seq.) is amended by add-3
ing at the end the following: 4
‘‘SEC. 155. REVIEW OF IMPOSITION OF DUTIES. 5
‘‘(a) N
OTIFICATIONREQUIREMENT.—Not later than 6
48 hours after imposing or increasing a duty with respect 7
to an article imported into the United States, the Presi-8
dent shall submit to Congress a notification of the imposi-9
tion of or increase in the duty that includes— 10
‘‘(1) an explanation of the reasoning for impos-11
ing or increasing the duty; and 12
‘‘(2) an assessment of the potential impact of 13
imposing or increasing the duty on United States 14
businesses and consumers. 15
‘‘(b) E
XPIRATION OFDUTIES; EXTENSION BYCON-16
GRESS.—Any duty on an article imported into the United 17
States shall remain in effect for a period of not more than 18
60 days, unless there is enacted into law a joint resolution 19
of approval with respect to the duty under subsection (e). 20
‘‘(c) D
ISAPPROVAL BYCONGRESS.—If a joint resolu-21
tion of disapproval with respect to a duty is enacted into 22
law under subsection (e), the duty shall cease to have force 23
or effect. 24
‘‘(d) E
XCLUSION OFANTIDUMPING AND COUNTER-25
VAILINGDUTIES.—This section does not apply with re-26
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spect to antidumping and countervailing duties imposed 1
under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 2
et seq.). 3
‘‘(e) J
OINTRESOLUTIONS.— 4
‘‘(1) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 5
‘‘(A) J
OINT RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL .— 6
The term ‘joint resolution of approval’ means a 7
joint resolution the sole matter after the resolv-8
ing clause of which is as follows: ‘That Con-9
gress approves the duty imposed with respect to 10
lll, notice of which was submitted to Con-11
gress on llllll .’, with the first blank 12
space being filled with a description of the arti-13
cle and the second blank space being filled with 14
the date of the notification under subsection 15
(a). 16
‘‘(B) J
OINT RESOLUTION OF DIS -17
APPROVAL.—The term ‘joint resolution of dis-18
approval’ means a joint resolution the sole mat-19
ter after the resolving clause of which is as fol-20
lows: ‘That Congress disapproves the duty im-21
posed with respect to lll, notice of which 22
was submitted to Congress on llllll .’, 23
with the first blank space being filled with a de-24
scription of the article and the second blank 25
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space being filled with the date of the notifica-1
tion under subsection (a). 2
‘‘(2) I
NTRODUCTION.— 3
‘‘(A) J
OINT RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL .— 4
A joint resolution of approval may be intro-5
duced in either House of Congress by any Mem-6
ber during the 60-day period described in sub-7
section (b). 8
‘‘(B) J
OINT RESOLUTION OF DIS -9
APPROVAL.—A joint resolution of disapproval 10
may be introduced in either House of Congress 11
by any Member at any time after the submis-12
sion of a notification under subsection (a). 13
‘‘(3) E
XPEDITED PROCEDURES .—The provi-14
sions of subsections (b) through (f) of section 152 15
(19 U.S.C. 2192) apply to a joint resolution of ap-16
proval or joint resolution of disapproval to the same 17
extent that such subsections apply to joint resolu-18
tions under section 152. 19
‘‘(4) R
ULES OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE 20
OF REPRESENTATIVES .—This subsection is enacted 21
by Congress— 22
‘‘(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking 23
power of the Senate and the House of Rep-24
resentatives, respectively, and as such is deemed 25
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a part of the rules of each House, respectively, 1
but applicable only with respect to the proce-2
dure to be followed in that House in the case 3
of a joint resolution of approval, and supersedes 4
other rules only to the extent that it is incon-5
sistent with such rules; and 6
‘‘(B) with full recognition of the constitu-7
tional right of either House to change the rules 8
(so far as relating to the procedure of that 9
House) at any time, in the same manner, and 10
to the same extent as in the case of any other 11
rule of that House.’’. 12
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 13
for the Trade Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after 14
the item relating to section 154 the following: 15
‘‘Sec. 155. Review of imposition of duties.’’.
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