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Official title: To repeal section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
Introduced March 27, 2025 by Brad Schneider · Last progress March 27, 2025
The bill removes the President's authority to impose extra duties under §1338, trading lower import prices and greater predictability for businesses against reduced rapid-response and retaliatory tools that protect U.S. firms from foreign trade discrimination.
Importers and U.S. consumers (including middle-class families) could see lower prices because the President would be barred from imposing additional duties under §1338.
Small businesses, exporters, and importers would face more predictable trade enforcement because the bill limits the executive branch's ability to apply unilateral duties or exclusions.
Small U.S. firms and taxpayers could be harmed because the President would no longer be able to quickly impose duties to respond to foreign trade discrimination, delaying relief and reducing the ability to protect sales abroad.
Small businesses and affected firms could face longer, costlier dispute resolution because trade disputes would be pushed into slower congressional or multilateral processes, increasing compliance and legal expenses.
U.S. exporters—particularly small firms—would lose a retaliatory enforcement tool, weakening leverage to deter or punish discriminatory foreign actions and potentially undermining defense of U.S. commerce.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals the federal statute that authorized the President to impose additional duties or exclude imports in response to foreign discrimination against U.S. commerce.
Repeals the federal statute that currently lets the President impose extra duties, block imports, or take related actions when a foreign government is found to discriminate against U.S. commerce. The bill removes the presidential authorities, procedures, and discretion that are now codified in 19 U.S.C. § 1338.