1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Trade Certainty Act of 2019”.
Trade Certainty Act of 2019
A BILL
To exclude the imposition of duties and import quotas from the authorities provided to the President under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
2. Exclusion of imposition of duties and import quotas from presidential authorities under International Emergency Economic Powers Act
Section 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702) is amended—
by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
“(c)
“(1) The authority granted to the President by this section does not include the authority to impose duties or tariff-rate quotas or (subject to paragraph (2)) other quotas on articles entering the United States.
“(2) The limitation under paragraph (1) does not prohibit the President from excluding all articles, or all of a certain type of article, imported from a country from entering the United States.”