Sponsors (8)
The bill prevents emergency tariffs on certain baby clothing—protecting parents, consumers, and small importers from sudden costs—but it constrains the President's emergency trade toolkit and may reduce diplomatic leverage or shift costs to taxpayers.
Parents and families who buy baby clothing will avoid new or existing emergency IEEPA tariffs, keeping retail prices lower and cancelling any duties already imposed on those items.
Small, import-dependent retailers and wholesalers of baby clothing avoid sudden tariff costs and the immediate financial hit that emergency duties could impose.
Consumers and businesses gain short-term regulatory and market certainty because the bill prevents abrupt imposition of IEEPA duties on specified baby clothing items.
Federal government officials and national security policymakers lose a rapid, unilateral economic tool (IEEPA tariffs) for responding to urgent national security or foreign policy crises.
U.S. diplomatic and sanctions leverage could be reduced because emergency duties on these items can no longer be threatened or used as targeted pressure in negotiations.
Taxpayers could bear indirect costs if Congress or the administration replaces forbidden emergency tariffs with alternative measures that are more expensive to administer or that shift costs onto the federal budget.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits the President from imposing IEEPA or similar emergency duties on ten listed baby clothing categories and requires termination of any such duties in effect on enactment.
Official title: To prohibit the imposition of duties on certain baby clothing items pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 23, 2025 by Jimmy Gomez · Last progress July 23, 2025
Prohibits the President from using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) or similar authorities to impose duties (tariffs) on a defined list of baby clothing items, requires termination of any such IEEPA-imposed duties already in effect on the date of enactment, and nullifies substantially similar duties imposed under any other authority. The bill lists ten categories of baby clothing (e.g., onesies, baby socks, dresses, hats) that are covered but does not appropriate funds or create other programmatic requirements.