The Baby Food Tax Relief Act blocks the President from using emergency trade powers (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA) to impose tariffs on baby formula, breast pumps, baby bottles, nursing nipples, and highchairs. Any IEEPA-based tariffs already in effect on these items must be ended immediately upon enactment. The bill also nullifies any tariffs imposed through other presidential authorities if they are substantially similar to IEEPA tariffs on the same products. Families who buy imported versions of these items would no longer pay the added cost those tariffs pass through to retail prices.
Average Household Impact
- Tariff costs on baby formula, breast pumps, and feeding equipment — removes import duties that raise retail prices for families with infants
Corporate Benefits
- Import relief for baby-product importers and retailers — eliminates duties that raise costs along the supply chain, benefiting distributors and manufacturers as well as consumers
Congressional Summary
Baby Food Tax Relief ActThis bill prohibits the imposition of duties (i.e., tariffs) on specified baby food items (e.g., baby bottles, breast pumps, and baby formula) 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 food 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
- 2026-05-05
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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