Sponsor
Clay Higgins
Representative · R-LA
The bill channels shrimp duty revenue into sustained seafood safety, enforcement, and domestic-promotion programs—likely improving consumer safety and helping domestic producers—while reallocating Treasury receipts and creating risks of higher import costs, funding volatility, and potential trade disputes.
Consumers: imported shrimp will be subject to expanded FDA inspection, sampling, and testing for unapproved antibiotic residues, improving seafood safety and reducing health risks.
Importers, consumers, and human-rights stakeholders: FDA data-sharing and coordination with Commerce and CBP will increase detection of forced-labor and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) shrimp, reducing tainted or illicit imports.
FDA and USDA (and program administrators): establishes a dedicated, tariff-derived funding stream that remains available until expended, providing more stable, sustained resources for seafood safety inspections, testing, and promotion outside the annual appropriations cycle.
Taxpayers and other federal programs: redirecting 70% of duties on shrimp into the Fund reduces general Treasury receipts available for other priorities, effectively shifting federal resources away from the general budget.
Seafood importers and consumers: increased testing and scrutiny may raise importer compliance costs and cause import delays or supply disruptions, which can translate into higher retail prices or reduced availability.
FDA, USDA, and domestic producers: funding tied to shrimp duties may be volatile because receipts depend on import volumes and duty collections, creating uncertain year-to-year program funding levels.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a fund financed by 70% of shrimp import duties (from FY2026) split 50/50 for FDA shrimp safety work and USDA domestic shrimp consumption promotion.
Representative · R-LA
Creates a permanent Treasury fund financed by 70% of customs duties on imported shrimp and shrimp-containing products starting in fiscal year 2026 and each year after. The fund splits evenly: half goes to HHS/FDA for inspection, sampling, testing for illegal or unapproved antibiotic residues, importer inspections, training, partnerships, data analytics, and coordination with Commerce, CBP, and other agencies to address forced labor and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) sourcing; the other half goes to USDA to promote domestic shrimp consumption under existing commodity promotion authorities. Funds remain available until spent and must supplement, not replace, existing federal funding.
Official title: To establish a fund to promote the inspection and consumption of shrimp and products containing shrimp or shrimp parts.
Introduced January 16, 2025 by Clay Higgins · Last progress January 16, 2025