1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Foreign Pollution Fee Act of 2023 . 2. Sense of Congress; purpose (a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) it is in the interests of the United States to strive for environmental protection in order to protect human health; (2) the nature of environmental challenges are transnational in nature, but international cooperative efforts, including those led by the United States, have not resulted in many trading partners adopting measures to address those challenges; (3) the transnational issues related to environmental protection and pollution impact the environment and public health in the United States and in turn present national security risks because of the environmental and public health risks; (4) the United States— (A) has adopted many environmental protections, including the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. ), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. ), the Toxic Substances Control Act ( 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq. ), and more than 15 other major environmental protection laws that— (i) add costs to the production of goods in order to secure the benefits of environmental protection and conservation efforts; and (ii) serve to meaningfully decrease greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 O), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and other fluorinated greenhouse gases; (B) is the world’s largest consumer market and its economy is highly integrated into the world; and (C) bears responsibility to ensure that the United States market does not incentivize forum shopping for the production of goods to jurisdictions with low environmental standards to obtain a competitive cost advantage while undermining efforts to address transnational environmental and resource challenges as well as global public health