Farms: her bill on phosphate fertilizer duties
What they say
In the October 20 KCRG-TV9 debate, Miller-Meeks said she put forward a bill to remove a tariff on phosphate fertilizer that was hurting Iowans, and that the tariff has since been lifted.
What the record shows ·
She is the sponsor of H.R. 8583, the Lowering Input Costs for American Farmers Act, introduced April 29, 2026 with Representative Hinson. It would bar duties on phosphate fertilizer under sections 122 and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and end the countervailing duty orders on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco. It was referred to the Ways and Means Committee, and no later action is recorded. On June 29, 2026 the White House announced a proclamation declaring an emergency and authorizing a temporary suspension of certain anti-dumping and countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco, for eight months or until the emergency ends. Her office's release of July 1, 2026 credits that step and names her bill.
Limit: The bill is hers and it aims at the duties she named. A presidential proclamation, not her bill, which has not left committee, authorized suspending some of them. The relief is a suspension for up to eight months, not a repeal, and it covers the Morocco duties; this desk did not check what happened to any section 122 or 301 duty on phosphate. Whether her bill led to the proclamation is not something the record shows. This desk did not read the proclamation itself or check whether the suspension took effect.