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The bill creates a yearly public report that increases transparency and congressional oversight of foreign-encouraged boycotts, at the trade-off of modest federal administrative costs and potential reputational or commercial harms for entities named in the report.
Taxpayers, small-business owners, and federal policymakers (including Congress) will receive an annual, centralized public report identifying countries and organizations that foster boycotts, improving transparency and informing oversight and policy decisions.
Businesses and state or local governments named or described in the report could suffer reputational or commercial harm from public listing of boycott-related actions.
Preparing and publishing the annual report will require federal staff time and resources, creating modest administrative costs ultimately borne by taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 31, 2025 by Michael Lawler · Last progress January 31, 2025
Amends existing anti-boycott law to require the President to publish and submit to Congress an annual report naming foreign countries and international organizations that foster or impose boycotts covered by the statute and to describe those boycotts. The bill also makes small textual changes to the 2018 Anti-Boycott Act's language, but does not allocate funding or create new agencies or deadlines beyond the yearly reporting requirement.