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Introduced November 4, 2025 by Steve Daines · Last progress November 4, 2025
The bill makes it easier and faster for the President to restore normal trade relations with many countries—lowering tariffs, simplifying commerce, and supporting exporters—while increasing import competition, reducing tariff revenue, limiting congressional oversight, and leaving some security/human-rights risks less constrained.
Importers, U.S. consumers, and U.S. businesses (including exporters and small-business owners): receive lower tariffs and more predictable market access when normal trade relations (NTR) are extended, which can lower consumer prices and support export-related jobs.
The executive branch and firms trading with the covered country: gain faster authority and flexibility to restore trade benefits without new legislation for most countries (except Belarus, Cuba, North Korea), enabling quicker normalization of commerce and reducing regulatory uncertainty for businesses.
Small businesses and middle-class consumers: removing the Title IV application requirement can simplify and speed bilateral trade normalization, making cross-border commerce easier and potentially lowering consumer prices.
Workers and U.S. producers in exposed industries: lowering trade barriers and extending NTR increases import competition, which can threaten jobs and revenue for affected domestic firms.
Taxpayers and the federal budget: extending normal trade relations can reduce tariff revenue, potentially increasing budget pressures or shifting costs to taxpayers.
State governments and Congress: faster unilateral executive authority to restore trade benefits reduces congressional oversight and legislative input on when to apply or withdraw Title IV restrictions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows the President to remove a country's coverage under Title IV of the Trade Act and extend nondiscriminatory (NTR) trade treatment, excluding Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea.
Gives the President power to stop applying Title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 to any foreign country except Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea, and then to extend nondiscriminatory (normal trade relations) treatment to that country's products. Once the President issues the proclamation, Title IV would no longer apply to that country as of the proclamation's effective date.