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Taxes and Trade

What this site holds on taxes and trade, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.

In plain English

This page is about taxes and trade.

It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.

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proposals
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actions recorded
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executive orders
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other documents
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agency rules
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public laws
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measures voted on

What Project 2025 proposes

Every proposal indexed from chapter 21 (Department of Commerce), chapter 22 (Department of the Treasury), chapter 23 (Export–Import Bank) and chapter 26 (Trade). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.

What has happened against those proposals

Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.

Closely matches

Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8237

In plain English

This order canceled a long list of orders from the last president. One of them set up the gender council.

  • Withdraw the conservation order setting a 30 percent target: closely matches. EO 14148 of January 20, 2025 revokes EO 14008 of January 27, 2021 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad) outright. That is the order that set the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of United States lands and waters by 2030 and directed the report that became the America the Beautiful initiative, so the instrument the chapter asks to be withdrawn is withdrawn. Where the fit breaks down: the revocation is one entry in a list of 78 revoked actions and names neither the 30 percent goal nor the initiative, and it does nothing about designations, grants or agency plans made while the order stood. EO 14313, a candidate here, later sets up a separate conservation commission rather than restoring or replacing the goal.
Runs the other way

Application of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to TikTok

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8611

In plain English

A law bans apps run by hostile states. This order delays how that law is enforced. It gives more time to sort out TikTok.

  • Ban Chinese social media applications: runs the other way. The proposal asks for a ban on Chinese social media applications including TikTok. Executive Order 14166 of January 20, 2025 goes the other way on the same application: it orders the Attorney General not to enforce the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act for 75 days, to impose no penalty for conduct during that period or before it, to write each provider a letter stating there was no violation, and to resist enforcement by states or private parties. What it does not do is repeal the statute: the ban remains law, the order is framed as time limited while the administration reviews intelligence and seeks a divestiture, and three later orders extended the delay. It also reaches only TikTok and other ByteDance applications, not WeChat or Chinese applications generally.
Partly matches

The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal (Global Tax Deal)

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8483

In plain English

This pulls the country out of a global tax deal made through the OECD.

  • End funding for and withdraw from the OECD: partly matches. The memorandum of January 20, 2025 directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Permanent Representative to the OECD to notify the organization that any commitment the previous administration made on the Global Tax Deal has no force or effect in the United States without an act of Congress, and directs Treasury and the Trade Representative to develop options against foreign tax rules that reach American companies extraterritorially. That answers the chapter's objection to a global minimum tax set outside Congress. Where the fit breaks down: the United States remains a member of the OECD and keeps funding it. The memorandum neither withdraws nor ends financial support, and memo-2026-00976, which lists the organizations the United States is to leave, does not include the OECD.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff To Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits

April 2, 2025 · 90 FR 15041

In plain English

This order put new taxes on goods coming in. It says other countries charge higher rates than the United States does.

  • Pass a Reciprocal Trade Act letting the President mirror foreign tariffs: same subject, different route. Same subject, different instrument. The first essay asked Congress to pass the United States Reciprocal Trade Act, giving the President authority to mirror a partner's tariffs after negotiation. This order proceeds instead by declaring a national emergency under existing authority, without the statute the essay asked Congress to enact.
  • Remove tariffs that backfired and guard against future abuse: runs the other way. The chapter's second essay argues the opposite of this action: that tariffs have backfired, that the reform is to remove those enacted since 2017 and build safeguards against future use, and that the next President should ignore those seeking protection. The chapter contains both positions and resolves neither.
Partly matches

Restoring Gold Standard Science

May 23, 2025 · 90 FR 22601

In plain English

This order sets rules for how agencies use science. It says findings must be open to review.

  • Present climate data without adjustments favoring either side: partly matches. EO 14303 of May 23, 2025 sets rules for how agencies use, interpret and communicate scientific data. Agency heads must publish the data, analyses, conclusions and models, including source code, behind information that will have a substantial effect on public policy or private decisions; employees must document uncertainty and how it propagates through models; and employees must be transparent about the likelihood of the assumptions and scenarios used, with highly unlikely or overly precautionary scenarios relied on only where the law requires it. The order's statement of reasons names agency use of the RCP 8.5 climate scenario as an example of a worst case presented as likely. Where the fit breaks down: this is a government wide scientific integrity order run through the Office of Science and Technology Policy, not a Commerce Department policy about its own records. It says nothing about the National Hurricane Center or the environmental satellite data centers, does not address adjustments made to collected data, and does not touch the continuity of long climate series that the chapter raises.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14

July 4, 2025 · 139 Stat. 72

In plain English

This is a large budget and tax law. It changes taxes, spending and many programs at once.

  • Cut the estate and gift tax and make the higher exemption permanent: partly matches. Section 70106 of the 2025 tax law strikes $5,000,000 from the estate and gift tax exemption in section 2010(c)(3) and inserts $15,000,000, moves the inflation measuring year to 2025, and strikes the subparagraph that would have ended the higher exemption after 2025, so the increase no longer expires. It applies to deaths and gifts after December 31, 2025. Where the fit breaks down: the chapter also asks that the tax itself be cut to no higher than 20 percent, and the law leaves the rate schedule untouched. This section reaches only the exemption, not the other items the chapter groups with the request.
  • Fully repeal the state and local tax deduction: same subject, different route. Section 70120 of the 2025 tax law acts on the same deduction and goes the other way. It replaces the flat $10,000 cap with an applicable limitation amount of $40,000 for 2025, $40,400 for 2026 and 1 percent more each year through 2029, reduced by 30 cents for each dollar of income above a threshold starting at $500,000 but never below $10,000, and returning to $10,000 for years after 2029. The deduction is widened for five years rather than repealed. Where the fit breaks down: full repeal, which is what the chapter asks, is not done here or anywhere else in the record. Section 70110 of the same law does terminate miscellaneous itemized deductions other than educator expenses, which is one of the items the chapter groups with this request.
Partly matches

Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign-Controlled Energy Sources

July 7, 2025 · 90 FR 30821

In plain English

This order ends federal aid for wind and solar. It calls those sources costly and unsteady.

  • Repeal the tax increases and energy credits in the Inflation Reduction Act: partly matches. EO 14315 of July 7, 2025 states a policy of building on the repeal of green energy tax credits in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and directs the Secretary of the Treasury, within 45 days of that act, to strictly enforce the termination of the clean electricity production and investment credits under sections 45Y and 48E for wind and solar facilities, including by issuing guidance so that beginning of construction rules are not circumvented, and to implement the foreign entity of concern restrictions. Where the fit breaks down: the order repeals nothing itself, and it reaches only the subsidy side. Every tax increase the chapter names is left in place, including the book minimum tax, the stock buyback excise tax, the coal excise tax, the reinstated Superfund tax and the excise taxes on drug manufacturers. The statutory terminations the order enforces sit in sections 70501 to 70515 of PL 119-21, which end a range of clean vehicle, efficiency and clean energy credits but not all of them.
Partly matches

Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries

July 30, 2025 · 90 FR 37775

In plain English

Small parcels used to come in without duty. That break has ended.

  • Adopt a package of measures decoupling from China: partly matches. One item on the first essay's list was ending what it called China's abuse of the de minimis exemption for parcels under $800. This order suspends that treatment for all countries rather than for China specifically, and the essay's other listed measures are separate.
Partly matches

Implementing the United States-Japan Agreement

September 4, 2025 · 90 FR 43535

In plain English

This order puts a trade deal with Japan into effect. It lowers some taxes on goods.

  • Enact mutual recognition agreements with high-standard countries: partly matches. Executive Order 14345 of September 4, 2025 implements a framework agreement with Japan, one of the five countries the essay names, and records that Japan is working to accept for sale United States manufactured and United States safety certified passenger vehicles without additional testing. That is recognition of another country's approvals, which is the mechanism the proposal describes. The fit is narrow in three ways: the recognition runs one direction, with Japan accepting United States certification rather than the United States accepting Japanese approvals; it covers passenger vehicles rather than a wide variety of goods; and the order's treatment of pharmaceuticals, the essay's main example, is a tariff rate of zero percent on generic drugs and their ingredients, not any acceptance of a foreign drug approval. The order's substance is a 15 percent tariff framework, which the proposal does not ask for.
Partly matches

Modifying the Scope of Reciprocal Tariffs and Establishing Procedures for Implementing Trade and Security Agreements

September 5, 2025 · 90 FR 43737

In plain English

This order narrows the broad trade taxes. Some goods are taken out of them.

  • Treat fair and reciprocal trade as the condition for free trade: partly matches. Executive Order 14346 of September 5, 2025 puts the reciprocity principle into operation: it treats large and persistent goods trade deficits as the emergency being addressed, makes tariff relief conditional on what a trading partner commits to in a trade and security agreement, states that the President will generally refrain from narrowing a tariff before a final agreement is concluded, and directs Commerce and the Trade Representative to keep monitoring the trade deficit, the lack of reciprocity in bilateral relationships and disparate tariff rates. The fit breaks down in what the proposal actually asks for. The chapter states a principle for the President to hold when free trade arguments are used against reform; it does not ask for an emergency declaration under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and this order neither announces the principle nor rests on the chapter, so the connection is one of direction rather than instrument.
Runs the other way

Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes

January 23, 2026 · 140 Stat. 5

In plain English

This is a spending law. It funds several agencies through September 2026.

  • Commercialize National Weather Service forecasting: runs the other way. Section 114 of the Commerce title of this appropriations act, approved January 23, 2026, provides that the National Weather Service shall maintain staffing levels in order to fulfill the mission required under 15 U.S.C. 313 to protect life and property to the maximum extent possible. That is a statutory direction to keep the service staffed for its own mission, which runs the other way from a proposal to move its forecasting operations to private companies and leave it gathering data. The fit breaks down because the section speaks only to staffing and names no number and no baseline, because it says nothing about who produces forecasts and does not bar the service from relying on or contracting with private forecasters, because 15 U.S.C. 313 is a separate statute that is not indexed here so what that mission covers is not recorded, and because the same sentence appears in the Act for several other agencies, which makes it a general staffing provision rather than an answer aimed at this proposal.

Executive orders

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Proclamations, memoranda and the rest

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Agency rules

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Public laws

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