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China should be given leeway on purchasing targets due to the pandemic-related economic downturn, the Senate Finance Committee chairman said.

The U.S. implementing bill for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement might require minor technical corrections before the deal enters into force, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade.

The resolution comes after Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a Senate version last week.

A group of 25 House Ways & Means Committee Democrats on Monday lambasted the Trump administration for missing a deadline to establish a task force on forced labor required under by the U.S. bill implementing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is considering a Section 232 investigation into crude oil imports that could lead to tariffs on Saudi Arabia and Russia, three GOP senators said this week.

The U.S. should lift tariffs on all medical goods being used to combat the coronavirus pandemic for 90 days, House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal said on Monday after reviewing a U.S. International Trade Commission report on COVID-19-related products.

The Trump administration’s handling of Chinese steel and aluminum overcapacity is not working, a group of Washington state Democrats told President Trump on Friday, urging him to improve a product-exclusion request process and ensure overcapacity is addressed in a phase-two trade deal with China.

Rubio, Scott say the move to allow imports of five types of fruit -- called for in the phase-one U.S.-China trade deal -- “has unnecessarily occurred amidst severely adverse conditions for Florida’s citrus growers and must be immediately reconsidered.”

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Monday discussed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s looming entry-into-force and enforcement issues with Democrats on the House Ways & Means trade subcommittee.