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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2888
To terminate certain tariffs imposed pursuant to emergency authorities and
require congressional approval for the imposition of similar tariffs, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL10, 2025
Ms. S
A´NCHEZ(for herself, Mr. NEAL, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. THOMPSONof Cali-
fornia, Mr. L
ARSONof Connecticut, Mr. DAVISof Illinois, Ms. SEWELL,
Ms. D
ELBENE, Ms. CHU, Ms. MOOREof Wisconsin, Mr. BOYLEof Penn-
sylvania, Mr. B
EYER, Mr. EVANSof Pennsylvania, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr.
P
ANETTA, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. PLASKETT, Mr. SUOZZI, and
Mr. G
RAY) 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 terminate certain tariffs imposed pursuant to emergency
authorities and require congressional approval for the
imposition of similar tariffs, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Stopping a Rogue 4
President on Trade Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF CERTAIN EXECUTIVE ORDERS IM-1
POSING TARIFFS. 2
Duties imposed by the following Executive orders, 3
and any successor or substantially similar Executive or-4
ders, shall have no force or effect on and after the date 5
of the enactment of this Act: 6
(1) Executive Order 14257 (90 Fed. Reg. 7
15041). 8
(2) Executive Order 14193 (90 Fed. Reg. 9
9113). 10
(3) Executive Order 14194 (90 Fed. Reg. 11
9117). 12
SEC. 3. APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR IMPOSITION OF DUTIES, 13
QUOTAS, OR TARIFF RATE QUOTAS OR SUS-14
PENSION, WITHDRAWAL, OR PREVENTION OF 15
THE APPLICATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT 16
CONCESSIONS. 17
(a) C
ONGRESSIONALAPPROVALREQUIRED.—Except 18
as provided by subsection (b), the President may not im-19
pose or increase a duty, quota, or tariff-rate quota with 20
respect to an article imported into the United States or 21
suspend, withdraw, or prevent the application of trade 22
agreement concessions with respect to an article unless 23
there is enacted into law a joint resolution of approval with 24
respect to the duty, quota, tariff-rate quota, or concession. 25
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(b) EXCLUSIONS.—The requirement under sub-1
section (a) shall not apply with respect to— 2
(1) antidumping and countervailing duties im-3
posed under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 4
U.S.C. 1671 et seq.); 5
(2) duties, quotas, and tariff-rate quotas im-6
posed under chapter 1 of title II of the Trade Act 7
of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2251 et seq.); 8
(3) duties imposed consistent with a ruling au-9
thorizing the suspension of benefits or concessions 10
on the part of the United States issued by— 11
(A) a dispute settlement panel constituted 12
under a bilateral or plurilateral free trade 13
agreement for which explicit congressional ap-14
proval pursuant to the requirements of section 15
151 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2191) 16
has been enacted before the date of the enact-17
ment of this Act, before which the United 18
States is a party; or 19
(B) a dispute settlement panel described in 20
section 123 of the Uruguay Rounds Agreement 21
Act (19 U.S.C. 3533) before which the United 22
States is a party. 23
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SEC. 4. JOINT RESOLUTION PROCEDURES. 1
(a) J
OINTRESOLUTION OFAPPROVALDEFINED.— 2
For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘joint resolution of ap-3
proval’’ means only a joint resolution, the sole matter after 4
the resolving clause of which is as follows: ‘‘That Congress 5
approves lll imposed with respect to lll.’’, with 6
the first blank space being filled with a description of the 7
proposed action with respect to the article and the second 8
blank space being filled with a description of the article. 9
(b) I
NTRODUCTION OF JOINTRESOLUTION OFAP-10
PROVAL.—A joint resolution of approval may be intro-11
duced in either House of Congress by any Member. 12
(c) E
XPEDITEDPROCEDURES.—The provisions of 13
subsections (b) through (f) of section 152 of the Trade 14
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192) apply to a joint resolution 15
of approval described in subsection (a) to the same extent 16
that such subsections apply to joint resolutions under such 17
section 152. 18
(d) R
ULES OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF 19
R
EPRESENTATIVES.—This section is enacted by Con-20
gress— 21
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 22
the Senate and the House of Representatives, re-23
spectively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules 24
of each House, respectively, but applicable only with 25
respect to the procedure to be followed in that 26
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House in the case of a joint resolution of approval, 1
and supersedes other rules only to the extent that it 2
is inconsistent with such rules; and 3
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 4
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 5
relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 6
in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 7
the case of any other rule of that House. 8
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