119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Jan 16, 2025
United States-Cuba Trade Act of 2025
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Latest action (Jan 16, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Jan 16, 2025)
United States-Cuba Trade Act of 2025
This bill repeals the trade embargo on Cuba and other provisions restricting trade and travel to Cuba.
Specifically, the bill (1) removes restrictions on certain transactions related to trademarks used in connection with a confiscated business or asset, (2) extends nondiscriminatory treatment (i.e., normal trade relations treatment) to Cuban products, and (3) prohibits and rescinds limits on remittances to Cuba.
The bill authorizes common carriers to provide telecommunications services between the United States and Cuba. In addition, travel by U.S. citizens and residents to Cuba may not be regulated or prohibited if such travel would be lawful in the United States.
The President shall take all necessary steps to engage with Cuba to (1) negotiate settlements relating to claims that Cuba had taken the property of U.S. nationals, and (2) secure the protection of internationally recognized human rights. The President may, with respect to Cuba, impose new export controls and exercise powers related to declared national emergencies.
The President must submit a specified determination about a foreign country to Congress prior to denying an income tax credit for taxes paid to the foreign country.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
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Agricultural trade · Caribbean area · Congressional oversight · Cuba · Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad · Foreign aid and international relief · Government liability · Human rights · Income tax credits · Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information · Latin America · Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment · Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents · Sanctions · Taxation of foreign income · Trade restrictions · Travel and tourism · War and emergency powers
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FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION · lobbying firm or registrant: FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Foreign Relations
$1,000,000
Spent on own lobbying
…f licenses for the exportation of certain defense articles to the United Arab Emirates, and for other purposes. H.R.7521 - United States-Cuba Trade Act of 2026 S.136 - United States-Cuba Trade Act of 2025 H.J.Res.126 - A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities that have not been…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION · lobbying firm or registrant: FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · amended · posted Aug 28, 2026 · issue area: Foreign Relations
$1,000,000
Spent on own lobbying
…f licenses for the exportation of certain defense articles to the United Arab Emirates, and for other purposes. H.R.7521 - United States-Cuba Trade Act of 2026 S.136 - United States-Cuba Trade Act of 2025 H.J.Res.126 - A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities that have not been…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing