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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2842
To limit the authority of the President to impose new or additional duties
with respect to articles imported from countries that are major agricul-
tural trade partners with the United States.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL10, 2025
Mr. G
RAYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
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 com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To limit the authority of the President to impose new or
additional duties with respect to articles imported from
countries that are major agricultural trade partners with
the United States.
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 ‘‘Stop Raising Prices 4
on Food Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT TO 1
IMPOSE DUTIES ON AGRICULTURAL TRADING 2
PARTNERS OF THE UNITED STATES. 3
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 4
(1) C
OVERED COUNTRY.— 5
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘‘covered 6
country’’ means a country that is one of the 5 7
countries with the highest volume of United 8
States agricultural goods imported into the 9
country in the preceding fiscal year, as deter-10
mined by the President. 11
(B) EU
COUNTRIES.—For purposes of 12
subparagraph (A), the European Union and its 13
member countries shall be treated a single 14
country. 15
(2) C
OVERED DUTY.—The term ‘‘covered duty’’ 16
means a duty proclaimed pursuant to— 17
(A) section 232 of the Trade Expansion 18
Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1862); 19
(B) section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 20
(19 U.S.C. 1338); 21
(C) the Trading with the Enemy Act (50 22
U.S.C. 4301 et seq.); or 23
(D) the International Emergency Eco-24
nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.). 25
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(b) AUTHORITYTOPROCLAIM ORINCREASEDUTY 1
R
ATES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 2
President may proclaim a new or additional covered duty 3
with respect to an article imported into the United States 4
from a covered country, only if— 5
(1) the President submits to Congress a request 6
for authorization to proclaim or increase the duty 7
that includes— 8
(A) a description of the objective the Presi-9
dent seeks to achieve through proclamation or 10
increase of the duty; 11
(B) an explanation of why such objective 12
cannot be achieved more effectively through 13
diplomatic engagement, trade dispute resolution 14
processes, or other mechanisms; and 15
(C) an assessment of the likely impact of 16
the proposal on the United States agricultural 17
economy; and 18
(2) a joint resolution of approval under sub-19
section (c) is enacted into law. 20
(c) J
OINTRESOLUTION OFAPPROVAL.— 21
(1) J
OINT RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL DE -22
FINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘joint resolu-23
tion of approval’’ means a joint resolution the sole 24
matter after the resolving clause of which is as fol-25
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lows: ‘‘That Congress authorizes the President to 1
proclaim duty rates as set forth in the request of the 2
President submitted to Congress on 3
llllllllllllllll ’’, with the 4
blank space being filled with the date of the request 5
submitted under subsection (b)(1). 6
(2) I
NTRODUCTION.—A joint resolution of ap-7
proval may be introduced in either House of Con-8
gress by any Member during the 15-legislative day 9
period beginning on the date on which the President 10
submits to Congress the request under subsection 11
(b)(1). 12
(3) E
XPEDITED PROCEDURES .—The provisions 13
of subsections (b) through (f) of section 152 of the 14
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192) apply to a joint 15
resolution of approval to the same extent that such 16
subsections apply to joint resolutions under such 17
section 152. 18
(4) R
ULES OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE 19
OF REPRESENTATIVES .—This subsection is enacted 20
by Congress— 21
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 22
of the Senate and the House of Representa-23
tives, respectively, and as such is deemed a part 24
of the rules of each House, respectively, but ap-25
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plicable only with respect to the procedure to be 1
followed in that House in the case of a joint 2
resolution of approval, and supersedes other 3
rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 4
with such rules; and 5
(B) with full recognition of the constitu-6
tional right of either House to change the rules 7
(so far as relating to the procedure of that 8
House) at any time, in the same manner, and 9
to the same extent as in the case of any other 10
rule of that House. 11
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