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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 348
To limit the authority of the President to impose new or additional duties
with respect to articles imported from countries that are allies or free
trade agreement partners of the United States.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY30, 2025
Mr. C
OONS(for himself and Mr. KAINE) introduced the following bill; which
was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To limit the authority of the President to impose new or
additional duties with respect to articles imported from
countries that are allies or free trade agreement partners
of 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 ‘‘Stopping Tariffs on 4
Allies and Bolstering Legislative Exercise of Trade Policy 5
Act’’ or the ‘‘STABLE Trade Policy Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT TO 1
IMPOSE DUTIES ON ALLIES AND FREE TRADE 2
AGREEMENT PARTNERS OF THE UNITED 3
STATES. 4
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 5
(1) C
OVERED COUNTRY .—The term ‘‘covered 6
country’’ means— 7
(A) a member country of the North Atlan-8
tic Treaty Organization; 9
(B) a country that has been designated as 10
a major non-NATO ally under section 517 of 11
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 12
2321k); or 13
(C) a country that has in effect a free 14
trade agreement with the United States. 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 the proclamation 10
or 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; 15
(C) an assessment of the likely impact of 16
the duty on the foreign policy and national se-17
curity interests of the United States; and 18
(D) an assessment of the likely impact of 19
the proposal on the economy of the United 20
States as a whole and on any relevant industry 21
sector; and 22
(2) a joint resolution of approval under sub-23
section (c) is enacted into law. 24
(c) J
OINTRESOLUTION OFAPPROVAL.— 25
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(1) JOINT RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL DE -1
FINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘joint resolu-2
tion of approval’’ means a joint resolution the sole 3
matter after the resolving clause of which is as fol-4
lows: ‘‘That Congress authorizes the President to 5
proclaim duty rates as set forth in the request of the 6
President submitted to Congress on 7
lllllllllll ’’, with the blank space 8
being filled with the date of the request submitted 9
under subsection (b)(1). 10
(2) I
NTRODUCTION.—A joint resolution of ap-11
proval may be introduced in either House of Con-12
gress by any Member during the 15-legislative day 13
period beginning on the date on which the President 14
submits to Congress the request under subsection 15
(b)(1). 16
(3) E
XPEDITED PROCEDURES .—The provisions 17
of subsections (b) through (f) of section 152 of the 18
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192) apply to a joint 19
resolution of approval to the same extent that such 20
subsections apply to joint resolutions under such 21
section 152. 22
(4) R
ULES OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE 23
OF REPRESENTATIVES .—This subsection is enacted 24
by Congress— 25
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(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 1
of the Senate and the House of Representa-2
tives, respectively, and as such is deemed a part 3
of the rules of each House, respectively, but ap-4
plicable only with respect to the procedure to be 5
followed in that House in the case of a joint 6
resolution of approval, and supersedes other 7
rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 8
with such rules; and 9
(B) with full recognition of the constitu-10
tional right of either House to change the rules 11
(so far as relating to the procedure of that 12
House) at any time, in the same manner, and 13
to the same extent as in the case of any other 14
rule of that House. 15
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