Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
To expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.
The bill improves IP enforcement by allowing CBP to share marketplace-originated nonpublic data (with some procedural limits and notification) but risks broader disclosure of sensitive commercial information and expanded recipient access that could harm privacy and dampen cooperation from marketplace partners.
HONOR Act
The bill removes U.S. tax advantages for payments tied to the Russian government and speeds enforcement to reinforce sanctions, but it raises tax costs for firms operating in Russia (and possibly consumers) and creates treaty/legal uncertainty for multinational taxpayers.
Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act
The bill lowers costs and increases predictability for importers and retailers—including retroactive refunds—while trading off increased competition for U.S. apparel producers, reduced customs revenue/near-term federal outlays, and added compliance and oversight challenges.
AGOA Extension Act
The bill eases costs and cash‑flow for apparel importers and preserves short-term customs operations and trade preferences (notably AGOA), trading off reduced tariff revenue, added competition for domestic textile producers, and administrative and policy uncertainty from short extensions and retroactive relief.
Recognizing the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role of trademarks in protecting consumer safety, by designating the month of July as "National Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Education and Awareness Month".
The resolution raises public awareness and encourages coordination to combat counterfeiting—helpful for consumer safety and brand protection—but is non‑binding, may shift costs onto businesses or taxpayers, and could risk diplomatic friction without providing enforcement authority or funding.
Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2025
The bill seeks to attract and channel foreign investment to trusted partners to boost high‑tech R&D, jobs, and supply‑chain resilience, but it risks provoking trade retaliation, shrinking the FDI pool, imposing compliance burdens, and producing uneven regional and security trade‑offs.
Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025
The bill strengthens and clarifies SBA advocacy—giving small businesses more voice in domestic and international rulemaking—but may require added funding and could complicate U.S. trade/diplomatic coordination, creating a trade-off between stronger representation and increased cost/foreign-policy risk.
China Exchange Rate Transparency Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. leverage and transparency over China's exchange-rate conduct—potentially improving market information and accountability—but risks escalating geopolitical tensions, reducing Chinese cooperation, politicizing IMF processes and U.S. representation, and creating uncertain, possibly extended economic effects.
Chinese Currency Accountability Act of 2025
The bill seeks to protect U.S. economic interests and influence in the IMF by forcing Treasury verification of China's compliance, but it creates diplomatic and administrative risks and is weakened by an automatic 10-year sunset that injects legal uncertainty and could end protections unless renewed.
Commemorating the 95th anniversary of the enactment of the Tariff Act of 1930.
The resolution favors open, rules-based trade to lower prices, expand export markets, and strengthen supply chains, but highlights that tariff escalation and retaliation can cause severe economic contraction, lost exports, and damaged market access.
Reaffirming the deep and steadfast partnership between the United States and Canada and the ties that bind the 2 countries in support of economic and national security.
The resolution deepens U.S.–Canada economic and security ties to support jobs, exports, supply-chain resilience, and regional defense, but it risks greater import dependence for some sectors and potential future taxpayer-funded defense commitments.
Expressing the sense of Congress that the proposed "joint interpretation" of Annex 14-C of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement prepared by United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai is of no legal effect with respect to the United States or any United States person unless it is approved by Congress.
The resolution increases Congressional control and transparency over USMCA interpretive actions and protects certain investor rights, but does so at the cost of slowing negotiations, risking politicization and investor uncertainty, and imposing modest additional administrative costs on taxpayers.
Medical Supply Chain Resiliency Act
The bill strengthens U.S. medical supply resilience, domestic production, and emergency responsiveness through trusted‑partner trade rules and regulatory alignment, but does so with likely near‑term fiscal and compliance costs, increased trade and political frictions, and risks to privacy, safety standards, and some U.S. suppliers.
Tariff Transparency Act of 2025
The bill requires a detailed USITC report that improves transparency for policymakers and consumers and protects confidential business data, but it risks higher consumer prices, trade retaliation harms to exporters/farmers, and diverts agency resources.
Amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies.
The bill streamlines and clarifies tariff classification and improves trade data with a rapid implementation timeline, at the cost of short-term administrative burdens and potential processing delays and reclassification costs for importers and customs agencies.
Stop Comstock Act
The bill modernizes and clarifies prohibitions on obscene/imported materials—reducing vagueness and narrowing criminal exposure for some—at the cost of creating potential enforcement gaps, reduced prosecutorial reach, litigation over interpretive standards, and short-term compliance disruption for businesses.
Increasing American Jobs Through Greater United States Exports to Africa and Latin America Act of 2025
The bill aims to rapidly boost U.S. exports and provide more consistent government support for exporters—potentially creating meaningful market opportunities—while imposing new federal costs, administrative burdens, and risks that benefits may accrue unevenly or harm partner-country communities.
UNITED Act
The bill aims to expand U.S.–U.K. trade and speed negotiations—potentially boosting exports, lowering some consumer prices, and strengthening supply chains—while increasing import competition that risks jobs, introducing time‑limited authorities and negotiation trade‑offs that could constrain Congress and leave some benefits limited by tariff floors.
Strengthening Exports Against China Act
The amendment preserves and targets Export-Import Bank support for exporters and strategic industries by narrowing which defaults count toward the lending cap, but it does so at the cost of higher taxpayer exposure and greater risk of politicized, concentrated lending decisions.
Ag Disputes Act
The bill pushes for faster, more coordinated U.S. trade enforcement to help farmers regain export ground, but that approach risks costly, lengthy legal fights, potential retaliation, diplomatic strain, and uncertain near-term benefits for producers and consumers.
Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act of 2025
The bill extends and restores tariff preferences that lower costs for U.S. importers and support Caribbean suppliers, while imposing a tight cap on Haitian benefits and generating lost tariff revenue, increased competition for some domestic producers, and added compliance burdens.
Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act
The bill strengthens and speeds U.S. trade‑enforcement tools to protect domestic producers and revenue, at the cost of higher prices, greater compliance burdens and legal exposure for importers and smaller firms, potential supply‑chain disruption, and increased administrative and diplomatic strain.
Milk From Family Dairies Act of 2026
The bill concentrates and expands supports, transparency, and infrastructure investments to help domestic dairy producers and small/regional processors, but does so by suspending existing programs, increasing federal spending and administrative burdens, and raising the risk of higher consumer prices and trade frictions.
Foreign-Trade Zone Export Enhancement Act of 2026
The bill makes use of FTZ duty exemptions and clarifies customs rules to lower costs and boost competitiveness for firms using FTZs—potentially preserving jobs—but does so at the expense of tariff revenue and by shifting enforcement and resource burdens onto Customs while concentrating benefits among firms able to access FTZs.
Foreign Investment Review Monitoring and Commitment Tracking Oversight Board Act
The bill sharply increases oversight, transparency, and national-security protections for foreign investments and raises labor and ethics standards, but does so at the cost of significant compliance burdens, legal complexity, and risks of deterring foreign capital and revealing commercially sensitive information.
Restoring Renewable Energy Parity Act
The bill speeds and lowers-costs for renewable energy projects and preserves funding continuity, but does so by curtailing agency safeguards and trade tools—raising environmental risks, reducing public input, and threatening some domestic manufacturing jobs.
Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act of 2026
The bill increases security and transparency around potentially risky foreign-origin connected vehicles while trading off higher costs, possible reduced availability, and compliance delays for importers, manufacturers, and consumers.
China Subsidy Response and Export Competitiveness Act of 2026
The bill expands Ex-Im Bank support to help more U.S. exporters—particularly small manufacturers—compete and counter foreign subsidies, but it increases taxpayer exposure to losses and gives the Bank broader, less-transparent discretion that may favor certain industries.
Section 232 Public Transparency Act
The bill increases transparency and timeliness of Commerce trade‑investigation findings while trading off added agency workload and a heightened risk that rushed redactions could inadvertently expose proprietary or sensitive information.
WATER for Farmers Act
The bill strengthens enforceable minimum Rio Grande deliveries, reporting, and a compensation mechanism to protect U.S. farmers and border communities, but does so at the risk of diplomatic strain with Mexico, higher costs for consumers and taxpayers, potential trade retaliation, and reduced operational flexibility during droughts.