Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act of 2026
The bill strengthens federal capacity and coordination to detect and disrupt trade-related crime—benefiting consumers, law enforcement, and the financial system—while raising compliance costs, administrative burdens, potential overcriminalization risks for businesses, and increased federal spending.
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027
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.
Expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.
The bill strengthens brand owners' ability to identify and stop infringing imports and increases transparency about data sharing, but at the cost of broader disclosure of nonpublic commercial information that raises privacy, competitive, and compliance risks for importers, marketplaces, and logistics providers.
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.
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.
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.
Stop Russian Market Manipulation Act
The bill reduces U.S. reliance on and financial flows to Russia from key metal imports—strengthening U.S. strategic leverage—but will raise costs and supply-chain burdens for American manufacturers, consumers, and firms while creating some regulatory and compliance uncertainty.
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. antidumping and countervailing enforcement—providing clearer tools that protect import‑competing firms and federal revenue—but does so at the cost of higher prices and compliance burdens for importers and consumers, greater administrative strain and litigation risk, and possible trade and diplomatic friction.
Back-to-School Supplies Affordability Act
The bill aims to shield designated classroom supplies from immediate tariff increases to protect schools and families and provide regulatory certainty, but it leaves open trade-remedy exceptions, contains some nonbinding elements, and could prompt disputes and limit executive flexibility in future trade responses.
Trade Deficit Elimination Act of 2026
The bill trades stronger, more transparent tools to identify and counter persistent bilateral goods deficits and support domestic manufacturing for greater authority to impose duties — a shift that could protect U.S. industry but also raise consumer prices, increase administrative burdens, heighten trade tensions, and expand contested executive discretion.
USTRx Act
The bill strengthens U.S. trade tools, staffing, transparency, and fast response options to protect American pharmaceutical companies and preserve access to innovative drugs, at the cost of higher potential domestic drug prices, diplomatic friction, and increased federal administrative expenses.
Congressional Trade Powers Reform Act of 2026
The bill increases congressional oversight and accountability of U.S. trade policy and curtails the President's unilateral authority (reducing sudden trade measures), but does so at the cost of slower, potentially politicized decision-making that could weaken rapid responses to trade or national-security threats and complicate negotiations.
Home Market Restoration Act of 2026
The bill increases protection and predictability for domestic producers and Customs administration through quotas, TRQs, and clearer definitions, but does so at the cost of higher prices, supply constraints, administrative burdens, and disruption risks for importers, downstream businesses, and consumers.
Milk From Family Dairies Act of 2026
The bill increases support, transparency, and targeted investments for the U.S. dairy sector—benefiting many small producers and local processors—but does so by consolidating and suspending existing supports, raising federal spending and import controls that could increase costs for consumers, burden implementers, and reduce policy flexibility in market shocks.
Foreign-Trade Zone Export Enhancement Act of 2026
The bill lowers costs and clarifies rules to boost competitiveness and preserve jobs via expanded duty‑free FTZ treatment, but it reduces tariff revenue, can concentrate benefits among firms that can use FTZs, and creates implementation and resource strains for Customs.
