Affordable Shipping for All Act

Affordable Shipping for All Act

This bill limits shipping services from excluding service or charging higher prices to noncontiguous areas of the United States.

Specifically, private shipping services (e.g., FedEx) and the U.S. Postal Service are prohibited from charging a higher rate to ship a consumer product or producer good (e.g., raw material) to a noncontiguous area of the United States than they charge to ship the same product to and from a location within the contiguous United States. Under the bill, a noncontiguous area includes Alaska and Hawaii and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States (including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands).

Additionally, such shipping services may not exclude services to such a noncontiguous location.

Consumer products or producer goods valued at more than $10,000 are exempt from the requirements of this bill.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 380 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 380

 To require fair shipping prices for noncontiguous areas of the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2025

 Mr. Case (for himself, Mr. Moylan, Mr. Hernandez, Mrs. Radewagen, and 
 Mrs. King-Hinds) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee 
  on Oversight and Government Reform, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require fair shipping prices for noncontiguous areas of the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Affordable Shipping for All Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON HIGHER SHIPPING FEES.

    No shipping service may exceed the shipping charge for the same 
product to and from a location in the contiguous United States as 
charged to a consumer product or producer good to the noncontiguous 
area of the United States.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON EXCLUDING NONCONTIGUOUS AREAS.

    No shipping service may exclude--
            (1) a noncontiguous area of the United States from its 
        shipping polices; or
            (2) a noncontiguous area of the United States from shipping 
        to its location.

SEC. 4. EXEMPTIONS.

    Any consumer product or producer good valued at more than $10,000 
shall be exempt from the requirements of this Act.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Consumer products.--The term ``consumer products'' 
        means the finished commodities for end-user use that will go 
        directly to the consumer.
            (2) Contiguous united states.--The term ``contiguous United 
        States'' shall refer to the 48 contiguous States and the 
        District of Columbia.
            (3) Noncontiguous area.--The term ``noncontiguous area'' 
        means any part of the United States not physically connected to 
        the contiguous United States, including Alaska and Hawaii and 
        any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United 
        States, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, 
        American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
            (4) Producer goods.--The term ``producer goods'' means raw 
        materials used to produce other products.
            (5) Shipping services.--The term ``shipping service''--
                    (A) means private companies whose primary business 
                model is the transporting of products for retailers; 
                and
                    (B) includes the United States Postal Service.
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