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Tariff Rebate Act This bill establishes the Tariff Rebate Program, through which the Department of the Treasury shall, beginning with tax year 2018, make disbursements to eligible individuals from a fund comprised of duties collected on imported items. An eligible individual is any individual who has filed a yearly tax return no later than October 15 and whose taxable income is below a specified threshold.

Assistance for Firms Harmed by Tariffs on Exports Act This bill provides financial assistance to companies harmed by retaliatory foreign tariffs. Specifically, it expands the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms program, which currently provides such assistance to companies adversely affected by competing imported goods and services. The bill authorizes companies that have seen a significant decrease in sales of exported goods or services, in whole or in part as a result of tariffs imposed by foreign countries in response to U.S. tariff increases, to petition the Department of Commerce for trade adjustment assistance.

Assistance for Farmers Harmed by Tariffs on Exports Act This bill extends eligibility for trade adjustment assistance to farmers affected by a reduction in exports resulting from retaliation to tariffs imposed by the United States. Such farmers may apply to the Department of Agriculture for trade adjustment assistance.

Tariff Tax Credit Act of 2019 This bill allows a new refundable tax credit for the return to taxpayers of  revenue raised from duties imposed on goods imported from China in preceding calendar years.

This bill modifies the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to give imports of basketballs permanent duty-free treatment.

American Business Tariff Relief Act of 2019 This bill requires the U.S. Trade Representative to establish a process whereby U.S. businesses may request that articles newly subject to raised import duties be excluded from such duties. For an exclusion to be granted, the business seeking the exclusion must demonstrate the article's unavailability from any other source or that the duty would cause economic harm to a U.S. interest.

This bill provides for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of products of European Union countries exported to the United States on or before October 9, 2019, and entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, during the 120-day period beginning on October 18, 2019.

Earmark Elimination Act of 2020 This bill establishes a point of order in the House of Representatives against considering legislation that contains a congressional earmark, limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit. If the point of order is raised and sustained, the congressional earmark, limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit shall be deemed to be stricken from the legislation.

This resolution affirms the importance of the United States' economic relationship with Mexico as an essential trading ally and opposes the implementation of tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico.