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HR 2548 · 119th Congress · HouseIn committee

Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025

In plain language: If the President determines that Russia refuses to negotiate a peace agreement, violates a deal, or continues military aggression against Ukraine, this bill triggers sweeping economic cutoffs. It freezes the U.S. assets and revokes visas for top Russian officials, oligarchs, and major state-owned banks, while barring Americans from investing in Russian energy or purchasing Russian sovereign debt. Additionally, it halts money transfers to Russia, bans Russian uranium imports, and imposes tariffs of at least 500% on all goods imported from Russia and any third-party country that trades in Russian oil, gas, or uranium.

Provisional: our plain-language summary, pending review.

Provisionalunreviewed: impact, issue tags, provisions, stakeholders, summary
People affected—Not determinable from the text provided. The bill broadly affects foreign officials, global financial institutions, and international commercial entities without specifying a quantifiable population.
Fiscal magnitude—no CBO estimate published
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Issues

What this bill touches.

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Who it affects

Who it helps · who it burdens.

Who it helps

  • Recipients and providers of humanitarian aid in RussiaExplicitly protected from sanctions under Section 18(a), allowing humanitarian and medical assistance to continue without restriction.provisional

Who it burdens

  • Senior Russian government officials, military leaders, and state-owned entitiesFaces U.S. asset freezes, entry visa bans, and prohibitions on transactions with U.S. persons and banks under Sections 5, 6, and 7 upon a covered presidential determination.provisional
  • U.S. financial institutions and broker-dealersProhibited from processing fund transfers to or from Russia, maintaining correspondent accounts for sanctioned Russian banks, and investing in Russian state-owned entities or sovereign debt under Sections 6, 8, 10, and 12.provisional
  • U.S. energy exporters and investorsProhibited under Section 11 from exporting energy products to Russia or investing in the Russian energy sector.provisional
  • U.S. importers of Russian goods and servicesFaces a total ban on importing Russian-origin uranium (Sec. 14) and a minimum 500 percent ad valorem tariff on all other goods and services imported from Russia (Sec. 15).provisional
  • Third-country entities trading Russian energy and uraniumSubject to U.S. asset freezes, visa revocations, and a minimum 500 percent U.S. import tariff on their goods and services if they buy, sell, or transport Russian-origin oil, gas, uranium, or petrochemicals under Sections 11, 14, and 17.provisional
  • Global financial communications service providersSubject to asset-blocking sanctions against the provider and its leadership if they do not cut off financial messaging services to sanctioned Russian financial institutions under Section 13.provisional
  • National securities exchangesRequired under Section 9 to halt and prohibit the trading of securities issued by Russian officials or Russian government-owned or affiliated entities.provisional

Dollar-level funding (FEC sector totals) is coming in a later phase.

What it does

The provisions, in plain language.

  1. Directs the President, following a covered determination, to freeze U.S. assets, revoke U.S. entry visas, and ban U.S. persons from dealing with senior Russian officials, military leaders, oligarchs, human rights violators, and foreign parties providing material support to Russia's military.

    Sec. 5provisional

  2. Requires the Treasury Department to freeze U.S. assets of, ban U.S. correspondent accounts for, and prohibit U.S. transactions with the Central Bank of Russia, major Russian state-owned banks, their subsidiaries, and their executives.

    Sec. 6provisional

  3. Prohibits U.S. depository institutions and securities broker-dealers from processing fund transfers to or from Russia or for Russian government officials, except for transactions authorized by federal license.

    Sec. 8provisional

  4. Bans exports of U.S. energy products to Russia, prohibits U.S. investments in the Russian energy sector, and freezes U.S. assets and revokes visas of foreign persons supporting Russian production of oil, gas, uranium, or petrochemicals.

    Sec. 11provisional

  5. Directs the President to impose asset-blocking sanctions on global financial messaging systems (such as SWIFT) and their executives if they fail to cut off access for sanctioned Russian financial institutions.

    Sec. 13provisional

  6. Bans imports of Russian-origin uranium into the United States and imposes asset freezes and visa bans on the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, its leadership, and foreign entities trading in Russian uranium.

    Sec. 14provisional

  7. Increases U.S. import tariffs on all Russian goods and services, including energy products, to at least 500 percent ad valorem, on top of any existing trade duties.

    Sec. 15provisional

  8. Imposes a minimum 500 percent tariff on all goods and services imported from any third country that buys or sells Russian-origin oil, gas, uranium, or petrochemicals, allowing a single 180-day national security waiver for certain countries.

    Sec. 17provisional

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Timeline

How it moved.

  1. Apr 1, 2025Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  2. Apr 1, 2025Introduced in House
  3. Apr 1, 2025Introduced in House

The original text

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Sources & provenance

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