119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Jan 30, 2025
STABLE Trade Policy Act
Official title from Congress.gov
Latest action (Jan 30, 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 30, 2025)
Stopping Tariffs on Allies and Bolstering Legislative Exercise of Trade Policy Act or the STABLE Trade Policy Act
This bill requires the President to receive congressional approval in order to proclaim or increase the rates of duty (i.e., tariffs) on articles imported into the United States from covered countries. Under the bill, a covered country is (1) a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), (2) a country that has been designated as a major non-NATO ally under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (e.g., Australia, Israel, and Japan), or (3) a country that has in effect a free trade agreement with the United States.
Specifically, the President may proclaim a new or additional covered duty (e.g., a duty proclaimed pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962) on an article imported into the United States from a covered country only if (1) the President submits to Congress a request for authorization to proclaim or increase the duty and the request contains specified information, such as a description of the objective the President seeks to achieve with the action and an assessment of the likely impact on the U.S. economy; and (2) a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law.
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
Actions from Congress.gov, newest first.
Alliances · Congressional oversight · Congressional-executive branch relations · Legislative rules and procedure · Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents · Tariffs · Trade agreements and negotiations · Trade restrictions
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NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION · lobbying firm or registrant: NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 21, 2026 · issue area: Trade (domestic/foreign)
$30,000
Spent on own lobbying
…ed and Unilateral Tariff Authorities Act)Repeal Section 338 tariff authority (support) H.R.2459 / S.4049 (Reclaim Trade Powers Act)Section 122 reform (support) S.348 (STABLE Trade Policy Act)Preventing tariffs on allies (support) H.R. 7557 (Respect NATO Allies Act)Preventing tariffs on allies (support) H.R.2842 (Stop Raisin…
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
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION · lobbying firm or registrant: NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 21, 2026 · issue area: Trade (domestic/foreign)
$30,000
Spent on own lobbying
…ed and Unilateral Tariff Authorities Act)Repeal Section 338 tariff authority (support) H.R.2459 / S.4049 (Reclaim Trade Powers Act)Section 122 reform (support) S.348 (STABLE Trade Policy Act)Preventing tariffs on allies (support) H.R. 7557 (Respect NATO Allies Act)Preventing tariffs on allies (support) H.R.2842 (Stop Raisin…
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