Digital Trade Promotion Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill authorizes the President to negotiate and enforce digital trade agreements with trusted partners, sets substantive digital trade objectives for those agreements, establishes congressional notice and review procedures, and creates a compliance-monitoring and enforcement process.
Who Benefits and How
United States digital exporters and firms that depend on cross-border data flows could benefit from a stronger federal framework for negotiating agreements against localization requirements, discriminatory digital taxes, and forced technology transfer.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Executive Branch would have to satisfy detailed negotiation objectives, notice, consultation, reporting, review, and enforcement requirements, and countries that violate covered digital trade agreements could face suspension or other penalties.
Key Provisions
- States findings and congressional views favoring robust digital trade agreements anchored in free data flows, privacy, and open internet principles.
- Lets the President negotiate digital trade agreements with trusted partners and sets required substantive objectives for those agreements.
- Requires congressional oversight and reporting and establishes monitoring and enforcement steps for noncompliant countries.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill authorizes the President to negotiate and enforce digital trade agreements with trusted partners, sets substantive digital trade objectives for those agreements, establishes congressional notice and review procedures, and creates a compliance-monitoring and enforcement process.
Key Policy Areas
Trade, Technology, National Security
Primary Purpose
This bill authorizes the President to negotiate and enforce digital trade agreements with trusted partners, sets substantive digital trade objectives for those agreements, establishes congressional notice and review procedures, and creates a compliance-monitoring and enforcement process.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- United States digital exporters and firms that depend on open cross-border digital trade rules
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Executive Branch officials and foreign governments subject to the agreement objectives, review procedures, and compliance enforcement framework
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Young (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Moran, and Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
United States digital exporters and technology firms seeking stronger protections for cross-border digital trade, United States digital exporters that could benefit from enforcement against noncompliant trade partners
Executive Branch officials responsible for digital trade negotiations and congressional reporting, Executive Branch officials responsible for enforcing digital trade agreement compliance
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_president"
- → President of the United States
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