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S 2362 116th Congress Senate

American Business Tariff Relief Act of 2019

Official title: A bill to establish a process for United States businesses to obtain exclusions from certain duties imposed under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and sect… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to establish a process for United States businesses to obtain exclusions from certain duties imposed under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 31, 2019 Introduced by: Whitehouse, Sheldon Democratic · Rhode Island See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance Administrative remediesCongressional oversightDepartment of CommerceEconomic performance and conditions
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Office of the U.S. Trade RepresentativeTariffs
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This bill died when the 116th Congress ended
It never became law before the 116th Congress (2019–2020) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 Latest action July 31, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

American Business Tariff Relief Act of 2019

This bill requires the U.S. Trade Representative to establish a process whereby U.S. businesses may request that articles newly subject to raised import duties be excluded from such duties. For an exclusion to be granted, the business seeking the exclusion must demonstrate the article's unavailability from any other source or that the duty would cause economic harm to a U.S. interest.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2362: American Business Tariff Relief Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2362/
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"S. 2362: American Business Tariff Relief Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2362/.
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S. 2362, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2362/.
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