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H.R. 2842 119th Congress House

Stop Raising Prices on Food Act

Official title: To limit the authority of the President to impose new or additional duties with respect to articles imported from countries that are major agricultural trade partners with the United States.

Introduced: April 10, 2025 Introduced by: Adam Gray Democratic · California See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance
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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Apr 10, 2025
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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Stop Raising Prices on Food Act

This bill requires the President to receive congressional approval in order to proclaim or increase the rates of duty (i.e., tariffs) on articles imported into the United States from covered countries. Under the bill, a covered country is one of the five countries with the highest volume of U.S. agricultural goods imported into the country in the preceding fiscal year, as determined by the President. The bill treats the European Union and its member countries as a single country.

Specifically, the President may proclaim a new or additional covered duty (e.g., a duty proclaimed pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962) on an article imported into the United States from a covered country only if (1) the President submits to Congress a request for authorization to proclaim or increase the duty and the request contains specified information, such as a description of the objective the President seeks to achieve with the action and an assessment of the likely impact on the U.S. agricultural economy; and (2) a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law.

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Costa, Jim
California · May 8, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2842: Stop Raising Prices on Food Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2842/
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"H.R. 2842: Stop Raising Prices on Food Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2842/.
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H.R. 2842, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2842/.
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