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Introduced November 4, 2025 by Steve Daines · Last progress November 4, 2025
This bill speeds and simplifies the President's ability to normalize trade—lowering prices for consumers and creating predictability for exporters—at the cost of reducing congressional oversight and potentially exposing some U.S. industries and national-security leverage to greater risk.
American consumers and taxpayers could see lower prices on imported goods when normal trade relations are restored, because reduced tariffs and trade barriers tend to lower retail costs.
U.S. exporters and importers—including small-business owners—gain more predictable, nondiscriminatory tariff treatment when the President restores normal trade relations, making cross-border planning and transactions easier.
The President gains a flexible, centralized tool to normalize trade quickly with eligible countries, which can advance U.S. trade and diplomatic goals by enabling faster bilateral engagement.
All taxpayers and the public face reduced congressional oversight of trade tariff exclusions because the bill grants broad unilateral authority to the President to change trade status for many countries.
U.S. manufacturers and some workers—especially in vulnerable industries—face increased competition from imports when normal trade relations are restored, raising the risk of job losses and business pressure.
Policymakers and national security planners could lose leverage to use trade restrictions as a pressure tool because the bill excludes only a few countries (Belarus, Cuba, North Korea), potentially limiting trade-based policy options.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Gives the President authority to end application of Title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 and restore normal trade relations to any country except Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea by proclamation.
Allows the President to stop applying Title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 to most foreign countries and to restore nondiscriminatory (normal trade relations) treatment to those countries by a two-step presidential action: (1) determine Title IV should no longer apply to a named covered country (excluding Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea), and (2) proclaim extension of normal trade relations to that country. On and after the proclamation's effective date, Title IV ceases to apply to that country, restoring normal trade treatment.