Stopping Adversarial Tariff Evasion Act
Current understanding
The Stopping Adversarial Tariff Evasion Act would statutorily deem goods produced, manufactured, or finally assembled by entities owned, controlled, directed, or operated (≥25% threshold) by designated foreign adversaries — China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Maduro-regime Venezuela — to originate in the adversary country for purposes of USTR and presidential trade-enforcement actions under Sections 301, 203 (IEEPA), and 232. The bill is aimed at closing the third-country transshipment/assembly pathway that allows adversary-linked producers to evade country-of-origin tariffs. Status: introduced; fiscal and enforcement implications flow through expanded coverage of existing tariff authorities rather than new appropriations.
Evidence log
- 2025-01-21 — Stopping Adversarial Tariff Evasion Act: cross-connection with china-trade-relations-national-security: Both target PRC-linked trade flows; the Tariff Evasion Act operationalizes adversary-origin attribution for Section 301 actions central to China trade-relations policy. (novelty: 3)