Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act
Sponsored By: Senator Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would expand U.S. trade-remedy tools for countering cross-border subsidies and evasion. It changes how antidumping and countervailing duty cases, circumvention inquiries, and importer oversight are analyzed and enforced.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 3 mixed.
New importer certifications and bonds
This bill would let Commerce require importers to certify at entry that goods and inputs are not in AD or CVD cases. It would require nonresident importers to keep U.S. assets and a bond large enough to cover duties if applied at the highest rate. Exceptions may apply for validated CTPAT Tier 2 or Tier 3 members. False or missing certifications and other violations could trigger seizure, criminal or civil penalties, and civil fines (for example, $50,000 per violation when domestic value is $50,000 or more). The asset and bond rules apply 180 days after enactment and implementing procedures must be ready within 90 days.
Tighter evasion, circumvention, and CBP rules
This bill would speed and tighten how Commerce and CBP handle circumvention and evasion. Commerce would have to act on a circumvention inquiry within 45 days (one short extension possible), issue a preliminary within 150 days, and a final within 150 days after the preliminary (with limited extensions). Initiation would suspend liquidation and require cash deposits at prevailing rates. The bill would let Commerce decide class-or-kind and origin using many factors and not be bound by other agencies' rulings. It would apply confidential-information rules to evasion cases and expand evasion probes to cover certain safeguard actions. Some CBP decisions in evasion cases could no longer be challenged by an administrative protest.
Broader subsidy and price rules
This bill would let Commerce treat more government or cross-border actions as countervailable subsidies and use different ways to set normal value when foreign market distortions exist. It would let Commerce include currency undervaluation as a possible subsidy and adopt a method to measure any benefit. Commerce could value major inputs from certain suppliers using alternative amounts when those alternatives are higher than the company records. The bill would also limit how much duty-drawback can be used to lower export price calculations.
Faster follow-on AD and CVD cases
This bill would let Commerce open faster follow-on antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations when the same or similar goods face recent or concurrent cases. For CVD follow-ons, a preliminary decision would be due within 85 days of start and a final decision within 75 days after that. For AD follow-ons, a preliminary decision would be due within 140 days and a final decision within 75 days after that. The U.S. International Trade Commission would have to consider recent or concurrent injury findings and could not find no injury just because recent relief improved conditions.
Which cases the rules would affect
This bill would generally apply its changes to AD/CVD investigations, reviews, and circumvention inquiries started on or after enactment. Pending cases would be covered in limited ways if their fully extended preliminary decision falls not earlier than 45 days after enactment. Some circumvention inquiries already filed or requested before enactment would get special deadline rules. A set of rules about distorted markets would apply retroactively to antidumping actions on or after June 29, 2015.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Young, Todd [R-IN]
IN • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
MN • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
AL • R
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
SC • R
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
WI • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
AR • R
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
PA • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Roger Wicker
MS • R
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ]
AZ • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
IN • R
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
MA • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO]
MO • R
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
NY • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Sen. Moreno, Bernie [R-OH]
OH • R
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Katie Britt
AL • R
Sponsored 2/25/2025
Elissa Slotkin
MI • D
Sponsored 3/14/2025
Shelley Capito
WV • R
Sponsored 6/16/2025
Cindy Hyde-Smith
MS • R
Sponsored 7/28/2025
Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
NH • D
Sponsored 9/4/2025
Sen. Justice, James C. [R-WV]
WV • R
Sponsored 10/9/2025
Sen. McCormick, David [R-PA]
PA • R
Sponsored 1/5/2026
Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
TN • R
Sponsored 4/28/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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