No Tariffs on Groceries Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Jacky Rosen
Introduced
Summary
Congress must approve any new tariffs or import quotas on food. This bill would stop the President from imposing a duty or tariff-rate quota on any "article of food" unless the President sends Congress a request and Congress enacts a narrowly defined joint resolution approving it.
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- Families and consumers: Would limit the President's unilateral authority to impose tariffs or quotas on groceries and other food items and related packaging.
- Farmers and agricultural suppliers: Would cover agricultural commodities, animal feed ingredients, seeds, fertilizers, manures, and agro-chemicals in the definition of "article of food."
- Executive branch: Would require the President to transmit a request to Congress and seek a joint resolution whose sole matter after the resolving clause is approval and the request date.
- Congress and process: Would give Congress a 45-day window to introduce the approval resolution and apply expedited procedures under the Trade Act of 1974. Either House could still change its own rules.
- Trade enforcement: Would preserve an exception for antidumping and countervailing duties under Title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Stops new tariffs on groceries
If enacted, the President would not be able to impose any duty or tariff‑rate quota on an "article of food" on or after the date of enactment unless two steps occur. First, the President would send Congress a request to impose the duty or quota. Second, Congress would enact a narrowly worded joint resolution of approval whose single sentence names the article and request date. Any Member of either House could introduce that resolution during the 45‑day period after the request, and expedited procedures in section 152(b)–(f) of the Trade Act of 1974 would apply. "Article of food" would cover food for people, products mainly used as animal feed or ingredients, agricultural commodities, packaging for those items, and seeds, fertilizers, manures, and agro‑chemicals. The bill would preserve antidumping and countervailing duties under title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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