Trade Cheating Restitution Act of 2025

Key Points

• Changes how Customs describes and handles interest tied to certain trade duties collected on unfairly priced or subsidized imports.
• Expands the time period Customs can look back to for these interest amounts, reaching back to October 1, 2000 (instead of 2014).
• Creates a one-time “special distribution” to pay out past interest from fiscal years before the bill becomes law, with Customs required to announce timing publicly.
• Only companies/people who previously received these kinds of payouts under an older program, and who file on time and meet the old eligibility rules, can qualify.
• Requires Customs to make the payouts in set deadlines: first for interest from 2010 onward (within 210 days), then for 2000–2010 (within 210 days after the first round).

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