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S. 348 119th Congress Senate

STABLE Trade Policy Act

Official title: A bill to limit the authority of the President to impose new or additional duties with respect to articles imported from countries that are allies or free trad… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to limit the authority of the President to impose new or additional duties with respect to articles imported from countries that are allies or free trade agreement partners of the United States.

Introduced: January 30, 2025 Introduced by: Christopher A. Coons Democratic · Delaware See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance AlliancesCongressional oversightCongressional-executive branch relationsLegislative rules and procedure
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Presidents and presidential powers, Vice PresidentsTariffsTrade agreements and negotiationsTrade restrictions
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 30, 2025
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Stopping Tariffs on Allies and Bolstering Legislative Exercise of Trade Policy Act or the STABLE Trade Policy 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 (1) a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), (2) a country that has been designated as a major non-NATO ally under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (e.g., Australia, Israel, and Japan), or (3) a country that has in effect a free trade agreement with the United States.

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. economy; and (2) a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law.

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Kaine, Tim
Virginia · Jan 30, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 348: STABLE Trade Policy Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-348/
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"S. 348: STABLE Trade Policy Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-348/.
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S. 348, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-348/.
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