[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3229 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3229

To limit the authority of the President to impose duties on articles of 
                                 food.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 20, 2025

   Ms. Rosen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To limit the authority of the President to impose duties on articles of 
                                 food.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Tariffs on Groceries Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE DUTIES ON ARTICLES OF FOOD.

    (a) In General.--On or after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the President may not impose any duty or tariff-rate quota on an 
article of food unless--
            (1) the President transmits to Congress a request to impose 
        the duty or quota; and
            (2) there is enacted into law a joint resolution of 
        approval under subsection (c) with respect to the imposition of 
        the duty or quota.
    (b) Exception.--The limitation under subsection (a) shall not apply 
with respect to an antidumping or countervailing duty imposed under 
title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.).
    (c) Joint Resolutions of Approval.--
            (1) Joint resolution of approval defined.--In this 
        subsection, the term ``joint resolution of approval'' means a 
        joint resolution the sole matter after the resolving clause of 
        which is as follows: ``That Congress approves the imposition of 
        the duty or tariff-rate quota with respect to ___, request for 
        which was submitted to Congress on ______.'', with the first 
        blank space being filled with a description of the article and 
        the second blank space being filled with the date the request 
        under subsection (a)(1) was submitted to Congress.
            (2) Introduction.--
                    (A) Joint resolution of approval.--A joint 
                resolution of approval with respect to the imposition 
                of a duty or tariff-rate quota may be introduced in 
                either House of Congress by any Member of that House 
                during the 45-day period beginning on the date on which 
                the President submitted a request under subsection 
                (a)(1) with respect to the duty or quota.
            (3) Expedited procedures.--The provisions of subsections 
        (b) through (f) of section 152 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 
        U.S.C. 2192) apply to a joint resolution of approval to the 
        same extent that such subsections apply to joint resolutions 
        under such section 152.
            (4) Rules of the senate and the house of representatives.--
        This subsection is enacted by Congress--
                    (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the 
                Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, 
                and as such is deemed a part of the rules of each 
                House, respectively, but applicable only with respect 
                to the procedure to be followed in that House in the 
                case of a joint resolution of approval, and supersedes 
                other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 
                with such rules; and
                    (B) with full recognition of the constitutional 
                right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
                relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 
                in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the 
                case of any other rule of that House.
    (d) Article of Food Defined.--In this section, the term ``article 
of food'' means--
            (1) food for use;
            (2) products chiefly used as food for animals or as 
        ingredients in such food;
            (3) agricultural commodities (as defined in section 102 of 
        the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5602));
            (4) articles used for packaging and containing articles 
        described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3); and
            (5) seeds, fertilizers, manures, and agro-chemicals.
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