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“We have long been concerned about the lack of transparency and consistency in the Department of Commerce’s Section 232 tariff exclusion process.”

The Trump administration’s refusal to allow new judges to join the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body is needed to force essential reforms in Geneva, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) told Inside U.S. Trade this week.

“I think it shows they’re embarrassed to make public what the report actually says.”

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) “wouldn’t be opposed” to an arrangement tying a vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to the passage of another piece of legislation.

Cruz’s letter reflects a growing concern on Capitol Hill about the inclusion of Section 230-like language in trade agreements.

Disagreements over a bill to restrict the executive branch’s authority to impose national security-based restrictions continue to propagate, several Senate Finance Committee members said this week, making a markup of a compromise bill less likely before 2020.

House Ways & Means trade subcommittee member Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) is “leaning no” on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, he said on Wednesday, pointing to what he said were continuing concerns about Mexico's labor commitments.

A compromise bill crafted to restrict the president’s authority under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 likely will be marked up in November by the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said on Tuesday.