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In response, the Chamber said companies are “actively working to ensure their supply chains reflect their commitment to those values, including in their engagement on these issues with the U.S. government.”

“The domestic industry has found evidence that Chinese businesses may be engaged in transshipment, circumvention, and evasion.”

The primary cause of increased imports of cores, laminations and transformers is the Section 232 tariff on grain-oriented steel imports, the five House members write.

The U.S. is expected to exceed its World Trade Organization limit on agricultural domestic support for 2019 and 2020, congressional researchers say in a new report, though the Agriculture Department insists the programs were designed with the WTO constraints in mind.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday launched the “Congressional Energy Export Caucus” to encourage trade in the energy sector, they said in an announcement this week.

The U.S. government should end its information and communications technology supply-chain reliance on China by establishing a comprehensive industrial base strategy that identifies emerging technologies and ensures U.S. production capacity in those industries, according to a commission of lawmakers, executive agency heads and outside advisers.

Trade policy issues, which have taken center stage during President Trump’s tenure, will remain prominent no matter who wins the presidency next month, trade attorneys said this week.

The U.S. and United Kingdom will have to conclude a “credible” amount of a free trade agreement ahead of the U.S. elections in November, make progress on external barriers and determine a timetable for post-election talks to complete a deal by next spring, a trans-Atlantic business group outlined in a new paper ahead of a fifth round of talks set to start next week.