Sponsors (13)
The bill strengthens U.S. tools to deter and respond to foreign seizures and protect investments and ports, but it risks higher costs and supply disruptions for American businesses and consumers, diplomatic friction, and added legal and administrative burdens.
U.S. taxpayers, investors, and businesses: the bill blocks imports tied to designated foreign ports and expands deterrent tools, reducing the entry of goods linked to foreign seizures and helping protect U.S. economic and national-security interests and overseas investments.
Small businesses and investors: the bill clarifies and expands the ability to invoke Section 301 so USTR can investigate and seek remedies when foreign governments seize or discriminate against U.S. assets, giving firms a clearer path to redress.
State governments, federal agencies, and Congress: the bill requires rapid identification and public notice (within 60 days) and clarifies legal grounds for USTR action, improving transparency and speeding governmental response and dispute resolution.
U.S. importers, small businesses, and consumers: supply chains could be disrupted and costs could rise if vessels or goods are barred or if foreign governments retaliate, increasing prices and business uncertainty.
U.S. trade partners and taxpayers: designations and trade measures could strain diplomatic relations in the Western Hemisphere and beyond, complicating trade and foreign policy.
Foreign regulators, state governments, and U.S. firms: expanding trade-based challenges to actions abroad risks politicizing investment and regulatory disputes, creating uncertainty that could deter investment and cooperation.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Blocks U.S. port entry/services for vessels tied to foreign ports on land seized from U.S. persons and expands trade law to cover asset expropriation and related mistreatment.
Introduced July 21, 2025 by William Francis Hagerty · Last progress July 21, 2025
Requires the Department of Homeland Security, with Treasury and State agreement, to identify foreign ports in Western Hemisphere trading partners that are accessible only via land owned or controlled by a U.S. person and where that land has been seized by the partner government; publishes that list and directs the President to bar vessels tied to those ports from importing goods to or receiving services in the United States. Also amends U.S. trade law to let the Trade Representative treat expropriation, arbitrary treatment, denial of due process, or nationality-based discrimination against U.S. persons’ assets as an "unreasonable or discriminatory" practice for purposes of trade action.