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119-hr-2239119th CongressWALLET

Strengthen Wood Product Supply Chains Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2]

Introduced

Summary

Timed detention-and-review framework would create a clear, time-bound process for merchandise detained under the Lacey Act, focusing on imported wood, plant, and wildlife products and on predictable notice, testing, and review rules. It would set specific deadlines for notice, testing transparency, release or seizure decisions, administrative appeals, and court review to speed outcomes and strengthen due process for importers.

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  • Importers and businesses: Importers would get faster answers and clearer reasons for holds. The Secretary must issue a notice or release within 5 days and must release or seize within 30 days or the detention is deemed a seizure.
  • Rights around testing and movement: Importers can ask to move detained goods outside U.S. control within 10 days if they pay fees, post a bond, and the Secretary agrees. The agency must share test results and enough information for importers to replicate the tests.
  • Administrative and judicial remedies: Importers may seek administrative review that must be decided within 30 days and then file in federal court. Courts must grant relief unless the Secretary proves by a preponderance of the evidence that admissibility remains unresolved for good cause.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.

New timelines for detained imports

This bill would set deadlines when your imported fish, wildlife, or plant goods are held. Within 5 days, the agency would have to send a detention notice or release them. Within 30 days, it would have to release or seize; no action would count as a seizure. Within 10 days after a notice, you could ask to move the goods out of U.S. custody if you pay storage fees, post a bond, and the agency agrees. These rules would apply to goods imported for sale.

Appeals and lab results for importers

If your goods are seized or treated as seized, you could request an administrative review. The agency would have 30 days to release them or confirm the seizure. If it confirms or does not act, you could sue in federal court. The court would have to grant relief, possibly release, unless the agency proves it still has good cause to finish an admissibility decision. If the agency tests your goods, it would have to share results and enough details to repeat the test.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2]

IN • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 3/18/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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