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The bill aims to curb harmful e-waste exports and increase transparency—protecting health abroad and legitimate reuse—while imposing new compliance costs, market disruptions for used electronics, and potential strain on domestic recycling infrastructure.
Importing-country residents and global public health: banning uncontrolled e-waste exports will reduce hazardous, nonfunctional electronics shipments and the associated environmental and health harms in countries that currently receive scrap, yielding public-health and environmental benefits abroad (and reducing toxic waste flows tied to global supply chains).
Registered exporters and recyclers (including small businesses and nonprofit recyclers): ability to register and ship tested, working electronics legally preserves legitimate reuse and secondary-market revenue streams for used devices.
Federal agencies and consumers: requiring AES filings and consignee declarations increases transparency of cross-border flows of used electronics, helping authorities track shipments and enforce export rules.
Small exporters, recyclers, and nonprofit processors: new registration, testing, and paperwork will raise compliance costs and administrative burden, squeezing margins and potentially forcing some smaller operators out of business.
Businesses and consumers who rely on resale markets: strict export bans and tighter controls could shrink markets for used electronics, lower resale values, and increase domestic disposal costs for companies and taxpayers.
Local governments and domestic recyclers: shifting exports to domestic recycling may increase volumes sent to U.S. facilities and raise processing costs if domestic infrastructure cannot scale quickly, potentially increasing local disposal expenses or fees.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits most exports of used electronics by creating a federal export-control regime, allowing only narrowly defined, registered exemptions for tested, low-risk, or recalled items.
Introduced April 24, 2025 by Adriano J. Espaillat · Last progress April 24, 2025
Prohibits most exports and reexports of a broad list of used electronics and electronic components, establishes detailed definitions for covered items and several narrow exemptions (tested working devices, certain low-risk counterfeit items, recalled electronics), and requires registration for entities that want to export exempted items. The measure creates a federal export-control regime for electronic waste to limit overseas disposal and set conditions for permitted exports.