Three congressional representatives sent a letter to the heads of the DOJ, DHS and the FDA, urging them to act against e-cigarette imports from China.
Four Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to prevent the importation of devices which convert semiautomatic weapons into fully-automatic ones.
Correction: Republicans voted in the House to say that there will be no more calendar days in the rest of this session of Congress, through the end of 2025, in a procedural gambit directly blocking the ability of critics of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico to challenge that policy (see 2503110049).
Reps. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., and Lizzie Fletcher, D-Texas, re-introduced a bill that would require the Treasury Department to study to what degree the tariff system is regressive, or hurts lower-income consumers more than more well-off consumers, and to what extent women's apparel faces higher tariffs than men's apparel.
Two Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate asked the administration to press Canada on changing how it administers tariff rate quotas for U.S. dairy exports as it approaches a renegotiation.
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., introduced a bill that would direct the International Trade Commission to do an investigation on the effects of the 25% and 10% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, including on consumer prices, and the impact on small businesses and farmers, including due to retaliation from those countries, within a year of enactment. The bill lays out the sectors to be covered, and also asks the ITC economists to estimate the impact on domestic jobs and investment.
Rep. Rudy Yakym, R-Ind., introduced a private bill to allow a company that imported golf cart tires to reliquidate the entries years later, so that they can recoup nearly $2 million.
Senators from the swing state of Georgia, a major manufacturing hub for metal-intensive auto, aerospace and solar industries, say that business leaders are telling them that the see-sawing tariff announcements from the White House are unnerving and causing them to put the brakes on planning expansions.
Two pro-trade Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee reintroduced a bill that would restrict the president's ability to use Section 232 to impose tariffs without Congress' consent. Four other House Democrats are co-sponsoring the bill.
Senators and witnesses called for the adoption of free trade agreements with Latin American countries to stave off Chinese influence in the region through trade, during a March 5 hearing on advancing American interests in the Western Hemisphere.