Starting in early 2025, President Trump used emergency declarations to impose new tariffs on imports — including tariffs aimed at Canada, Mexico, and broader "reciprocal" duties under three specific executive orders (14257, 14193, and 14194). This bill would terminate those tariffs and any "substantially similar" successor orders. Going forward, the President could not impose new duties, quotas, or tariff-rate quotas, or suspend trade-agreement concessions, without Congress first passing a joint resolution of approval. Standard anti-dumping, countervailing-duty, and Section 201 safeguard actions would still be allowed, as would tariffs imposed to comply with WTO or free-trade-agreement dispute rulings.
Average Household Impact
- Emergency-declared tariffs — Three Trump executive orders terminated, with downstream price effects on tariffed imports
Transparency & Accountability
- Congressional approval requirement — Joint resolution required before any new presidential tariff, quota, or trade-concession suspension
Congressional Summary
Stopping a Rogue President on Trade ActThis bill terminates specified executive orders imposing duties (i.e., tariffs) on certain imports into the United States. It also requires the President to receive congressional approval in order to take certain trade actions.Specifically, the bill terminates duties imposed under the following executive orders (or any executive orders that are substantially similar to these executive orders):Executive Order 14257, which imposed a 10% tariff on most imports to the United States and additional duties on specified trading partners;Executive Order 14193, which imposed a 25% tariff on most imports from Canada (except for Canadian energy or energy resources, which have a 10% tariff); andExecutive Order 14194, which imposed a 25% tariff on most imports from Mexico.Additionally, the bill prohibits the President from imposing or increasing a duty, quota, or tariff-rate quota on imports entering the United States, or preventing the application of trade agreement concessions on imports, unless a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law.The bill provides exclusions from this congressional approval requirement, such as imposing antidumping and countervailing duties under the Tariff Act of 1930. (Antidumping laws provide relief to U.S industries and workers that are materially injured or threatened with injury due to imports of like products sold in the U.S. market at less than fair value, while countervailing duty laws provide such relief from imports of products subsidized by a foreign government or public entity.)
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-04-10
- Date Added
- 2026-05-16
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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