HR 407referred119th Congress

Prevent Tariff Abuse Act

Introduced Jan 15, 2025House billPolicy area: Foreign Trade and International FinanceLast action Jan 15, 2025Sponsor: Suzan K. DelBene(D-WA)

tradeForeign Trade and International Finance

Ways and Means CommitteeForeign Affairs Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Jan 15, 2025

What the bill does

Prevent Tariff Abuse Act This bill prohibits the President from exercising authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose duties, tariff-rate quotas, or other quotas on imports entering the United States. (IEEPA provides the President with broad authority to regulate various economic transactions following a declaration of a national emergency.)

Latest official action

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$11.1M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 15, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by FEDEX CORPORATION

Apr 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION

Jul 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by FEDEX CORPORATION

Jul 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Jan 15, 2025IntroReferral

Foreign Affairs Committee

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Jan 15, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in House

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Jan 15, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in House

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
FEDEX CORPORATION	FEDEX CORPORATION	$3.0M	Jul 18, 2025	2025Q2	POSAVITAX
FEDEX CORPORATION	FEDEX CORPORATION	$2.8M	Apr 18, 2025	2025Q1	TECGOVTAX
ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.