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The Agriculture Department’s approach in directing payments to farmers for damages sustained due to Trump administration trade policy has been “unfair” and benefitted large Southern operations over the rest of the country, Senate Agriculture Committee ranking member Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said on Monday, citing a new government report.
The Commerce Department and the Russian government have reached a preliminary deal to extend and amend a suspension agreement capping uranium imports from Russia through 2040.
Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), eyeing larger and “more aggressive deals” under the Export-Import Bank’s novel China program, last week promoted new legislation he said would, in part, relax domestic content requirements for export financing in the high-tech industry.
Noting the administration has said one reason it needs broad Section 232 authority is “flexibility in case of an emergency,” Ernst and Grassley say “there’s clearly one now.”
Instead of using tariffs initially favored by President Trump, the administration and some members of Congress are eyeing state and local government grants to incentivize more domestic production in critical areas and move toward further decoupling from China, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said on Thursday.
No witnesses have been announced for the Sept. 17 virtual hearing.
“India has an unusually restrictive market when it comes to biopharmaceutical innovations,” writes the Judiciary Committee’s intellectual property panel chairman.
Efforts to correct drafting errors in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement implementing bill are facing roadblocks, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said this week, adding that he hopes to address the provisions before the end of the year.
The congresswoman also lamented that “In this current campaign season, the Republicans love to claim that a Democrat is somehow too close to China or a socialist.”
The administration of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is eyeing a unilateral rewrite of some of its obligations in the withdrawal bill agreed between the United Kingdom and the European Union earlier this year, an effort likely to jeopardize Democratic congressional support for a U.S.-UK trade deal.
The House Ways & Means trade subcommittee will weigh the prospects for CBPTA's renewal on Thursday.
“The tariffs will make products from a F-35 jet to a washing machine to a can of beer more expensive, thus making the value chain weaker and negatively impacting our economy.”
Two senior House Ways & Means trade subcommittee Democrats said last week they were optimistic a Biden administration could prioritize a reset of U.S. trade relations.
The future of the Trade Promotion Authority law may come down to who wins the White House in November, according to two prominent House Ways & Means Committee Democrats.
The AFL-CIO this month will file a labor complaint against Mexico under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the union federation’s president, Richard Trumka, said on Thursday.
President Trump’s re-imposition of tariffs on Canadian aluminum could have serious implications for the implementation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) said this week.
Patel succeeds Nasim Fussell, now a partner at Holland & Knight LLP.
Having dealt with longstanding U.S. market-access concerns, Taiwan is hoping to initiate trade negotiations before the end of the year, Taipei’s envoy to the U.S., Bi-Kuhn Hsiao, told Inside U.S. Trade this week.
The House Ways & Means trade subcommittee this fall likely will turn its attention to the renewal of several trade programs set to expire this year, with a “fairly active” lame-duck session expected after the election, according to Chairman Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR).