Congress

Last month the AFL-CIO leader warned that a vote before Thanksgiving could lead to the deal’s defeat.

The House on Friday approved Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) bill to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank for 10 years.

Key House Democrats negotiating outstanding U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement concerns with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative are waiting for administration officials to put their agreements in writing before moving forward, they said on Thursday.

The House Ways & Means Committee chairman and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were set to speak with USTR Robert Lighthizer on Thursday.

The exclusion of restrictive language on Chinese state-owned enterprises in an Export-Import Bank reauthorization bill crafted by House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) will not hinder the legislation’s success in the Senate, a member of the Senate Banking Committee said on Wednesday.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative this week is expected to announce a delay of a Section 232 action based on the national security implications of auto and auto-parts imports and instead issue a report that includes auto industry investment plans crafted to stave off the imposition of trade restrictions, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade.

A compromise bill crafted to curb presidential tariff authorities spearheaded by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) won’t be put before the panel before the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is passed by Congress, the chairman said on Tuesday.

“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.