The Baby Sleep Tax Relief Act would prohibit the President from using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act — the law a president can invoke to impose emergency-based tariffs without a congressional vote — to put duties on six categories of baby goods: cribs, toddler beds, mattresses and bedding, bassinets, cradles, and baby monitors. Any IEEPA duties already in effect on those items at enactment would have to be terminated, and 'substantially similar' duties imposed under any other presidential authority would have no force or effect. Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures of Alabama leads the bill with five Democratic co-sponsors. It is a direct legislative response to recent administration use of IEEPA to impose broad tariffs.
Average Household Impact
- IEEPA tariff authority on baby sleep items — Prohibited on cribs, toddler beds, mattresses, bassinets, cradles, baby monitors
Congressional Summary
Baby Sleep Tax Relief ActThis bill prohibits the imposition of duties (i.e., tariffs) on specified baby sleep items (e.g., cribs, toddler beds, and baby monitors) pursuant to certain presidential powers.Specifically, the bill prohibits the President from exercising authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose duties on specified baby sleep items entering the United States. (IEEPA provides the President with broad authority to regulate various economic transactions following a declaration of a national emergency.)Further, the President must terminate the duties on these items that were imposed pursuant to IEEPA and are in effect as of the date of the bill's enactment.The bill also prohibits the President from using any other authorities to impose duties on these items that are substantially similar to the duties imposed pursuant to IEEPA.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-07-23
- Date Added
- 2026-05-12
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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