Trade Cheating Restitution Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3543 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3543

 To amend the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 to 
      modify the description of interest for purposes of certain 
 distributions of antidumping duties and countervailing duties and to 
   authorize a special distribution of those amounts, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 17, 2025

   Mr. Thune (for himself, Ms. Smith, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Grassley, Mr. 
  Peters, and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following bill; which was 
          read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 to 
      modify the description of interest for purposes of certain 
 distributions of antidumping duties and countervailing duties and to 
   authorize a special distribution of those amounts, 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 ``Trade Cheating Restitution Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF DESCRIPTION OF INTEREST FOR PURPOSES OF CERTAIN 
              DISTRIBUTIONS OF ANTIDUMPING DUTIES AND COUNTERVAILING 
              DUTIES AND SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION OF AMOUNTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 605(c)(1) of the Trade Facilitation and 
Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4401(c)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B); and
            (2) by striking ``October 1, 2014, by U.S. Customs and 
        Border Protection under, or in connection with--'' and 
        inserting ``October 1, 2000, by U.S. Customs and Border 
        Protection.''.
    (b) Funding.--In carrying out the amendments made by subsection 
(a), the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall use 
amounts available for such purpose in the ``Refund of Moneys 
Erroneously Received and Covered'' account of the Department of the 
Treasury.
    (c) Special Distribution of Amounts.--
            (1) In general.--In carrying out the amendments made by 
        subsection (a), all interest realized under section 605(c)(1) 
        of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 
        U.S.C. 4401(c)(1)), as amended by that subsection, for a fiscal 
        year ending before the date of the enactment of this Act shall 
        be subject to a special distribution carried out in accordance 
        with this subsection.
            (2) General notice.--The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
        Border Protection shall publish a general notice in the Federal 
        Register announcing the timing of the special distribution 
        required under paragraph (1).
            (3) Eligibility.--Each person seeking a special 
        distribution under paragraph (1) must--
                    (A) have received at least one distribution under 
                the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 
                (section 754 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
                1675c; repealed by subtitle F of title VII of the 
                Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-171; 120 
                Stat. 154))) during a prior fiscal year;
                    (B) timely file a certification for the special 
                distribution, as determined by the Commissioner of U.S. 
                Customs and Border Protection; and
                    (C) meet the eligibility criteria contained in the 
                Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 at the 
                time of filing that certification.
            (4) Distribution.--Interest specified under paragraph (1) 
        shall be aggregated by antidumping duty or countervailing duty 
        order or finding and distributed on a pro rata basis to persons 
        eligible under paragraph (3) as follows:
                    (A) For interest realized on or after October 1, 
                2010, as soon as possible following the date of the 
                enactment of this Act but not later than the date that 
                is 210 days after such date of enactment.
                    (B) For interest realized on or after October 1, 
                2000, and on or before September 30, 2010, as soon as 
                possible following the date of the enactment of this 
                Act but not later than the date that is 210 days after 
                the distribution under subparagraph (A).
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