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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1293 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the approval of Congress for the President to impose duties |
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| 6 | 6 | | on the importation of articles into the United States. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL3, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. P |
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| 10 | 10 | | AULintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to |
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| 11 | 11 | | the Committee on Finance |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To require the approval of Congress for the President to |
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| 14 | 14 | | impose duties on the importation of articles into the |
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| 15 | 15 | | United States. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Taxation Without 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Representation Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR IMPO-6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SITION OF DUTIES. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (a) I |
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| 24 | 24 | | NGENERAL.—Chapter 5 of title I of the Trade 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2191 et seq.) is amended by add-9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ing at the end the following: 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 1293 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘SEC. 155. CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR IM-1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | POSITION OF DUTIES. 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 33 | 33 | | NGENERAL.—On and after the date of the en-3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | actment of this section, the President may impose a duty 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | on the importation of articles into the United States under 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | any provision of law, including a provision of law specified 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | in subsection (b), only if— 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(1) the President submits to Congress a pro-8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | posal to impose the duty that includes a rationale 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | for imposing the duty; and 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(2) there is enacted into law a joint resolution 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | approving the imposition of the duty. 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(b) P |
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| 44 | 44 | | ROVISIONS OFLAWSPECIFIED.—The provi-13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | sions of law specified in this subsection are the following: 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(1) This Act. 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(2) The Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1301 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | et seq.). 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(3) The Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | U.S.C. 1862 et seq.). 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(4) The Trading with the Enemy Act (50 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | U.S.C. 4301 et seq.). 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘(5) The International Emergency Economic 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.). 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘(6) Any provision of law enacted to implement 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | a trade agreement to which the United States is a 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | party. 26 |
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| 60 | 60 | | •S 1293 IS |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(7) Any provision of a trade agreement to 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | which the United States is a party. 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ‘‘(8) Any other provision of the customs and 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | trade laws of the United States (as defined in sec-4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | tion 2 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforce-5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ment Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4301)). 6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(c) T |
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| 68 | 68 | | REATMENT OF EMBARGOES.—Subsection (a) 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | does not apply to the exclusion of all articles, or all of 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | a certain type of article, imported from a country from 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | entering the United States.’’. 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (b) C |
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| 73 | 73 | | LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 11 |
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| 74 | 74 | | for the Trade Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after 12 |
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| 75 | 75 | | the item relating to section 154 the following: 13 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘Sec. 155. Congressional approval required for imposition of duties.’’. |
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