Sponsor
Bill Cassidy
Senator · R-LA
Senator · R-LA
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.
U.S. producers and domestic processors of shrimp, rice, crawfish, beef, and sheep/goat: reduced foreign competition and stronger protection from imports via TRQs, quotas, and high above-quota duties, supporting domestic sales and prices.
Importers, Customs, and businesses: clearer HTS-based product definitions, published quotas, and annual CPI-adjustments to duties improve predictability of tariff treatment and Customs implementation.
Importers and U.S. buyers sourcing from specified countries: guaranteed lower-duty access for set TRQ volumes (e.g., for beef, sheep/goat and in-quota seafood), helping firms that rely on those suppliers plan purchases and costs.
Consumers and businesses that rely on imported shrimp, rice, honey, beef, sheep/goat, crawfish, or siluriformes: substantially higher costs and likely higher retail prices when imports exceed quotas/TRQs because of steep above-quota duties.
Downstream processors, restaurants, meatpackers, and rural manufacturing communities: higher input costs and supply disruptions could cut margins, raise consumer prices, or cause job losses in affected local economies.
Importers and processors of crawfish and siluriformes fillets: extremely high in-quota and especially above-quota duty rates create acute market disruption risk and pricing volatility for these specific product lines.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Establishes country- and product-specific annual TRQs and higher above‑quota duties for shrimp, beef, live bovines, and sheep/goat meat tied to HTS lines.
Official title: Impose tariff-rate quotas on certain imports.
Introduced July 13, 2026 by Bill Cassidy · Last progress July 13, 2026
Sets annual, country- and product-specific tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) and higher above-quota duties for shrimp imports from several named countries and for specified beef, live bovines, and sheep/goat meat. The bill ties quantities to Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) lines, specifies kilogram amounts for each calendar year (including multi-year stepped quotas for sheep/goat meat), and imposes substantial above‑quota ad valorem or per‑kilogram duties when quotas are exceeded. The measure changes HTS duty lines for the named products, defines multiple shrimp product categories by HTS subheadings, and clarifies that these TRQs and duties apply in addition to any other applicable U.S. duties (including antidumping and countervailing duties).