American Business Tariff Relief Act of 2019 This bill requires the U.S. Trade Representative to establish a process whereby U.S. businesses may request that articles newly subject to raised import duties be excluded from such duties. For an exclusion to be granted, the business seeking the exclusion must demonstrate the article's unavailability from any other source or that the duty would cause economic harm to a U.S. interest.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Administrative remediesCongressional oversightDepartment of CommerceEconomic performance and conditionsOffice of the U.S. Trade RepresentativeTariffs
American Business Tariff Relief Act of 2019
USA116th CongressS-2362| Senate
| Updated: 7/31/2019
American Business Tariff Relief Act of 2019 This bill requires the U.S. Trade Representative to establish a process whereby U.S. businesses may request that articles newly subject to raised import duties be excluded from such duties. For an exclusion to be granted, the business seeking the exclusion must demonstrate the article's unavailability from any other source or that the duty would cause economic harm to a U.S. interest.