Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., introduced a bill designed to improve and modernize trade adjustment assistance programs, including "significantly higher funding levels and expanded eligibility," according to a summary provided by Blumenauer's office.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican who said he was tough on China before more senators got on the bandwagon, said corporate interests and U.S. interests have diverged when it comes to globalization. Rubio, who represents Florida, was speaking at a American Compass event June 21 on Capitol Hill.
Members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party met June 20 in Detroit with the CEOs of Ford and General Motors as well as leading automotive suppliers to discuss their reliance on China in their supply chains.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., asked the FDA commissioner to justify importing a different formulation of the cancer infusion drug cisplatin that has been approved in the U.S., from Qilu Pharmaceutical in China.
More than 30 members of the House of Representatives cautioned the International Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce about their investigations on tin mill products from eight countries, arguing any antidumping duties impose as a result of the investigations could increase costs for downstream U.S. industries and raising U.S. food prices, in a June 12 letter to the chairman of the ITC and the undersecretary of commerce for international trade.
The chairmen of the House Small Business Committee and the House Select Committee on China are asking for a detailed briefing by the end of June on DOJ's efforts to combat Chinese intellectual property theft.
The House of Representatives passed the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act by a 248-180 vote June 13. The bill forbids the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban gas stoves, or enforce any consumer product safety standard or rule on gas stoves that would result in a prohibition on the sale of gas stoves, "or would otherwise substantially increase the average price of gas stoves in the United States."
A bill that would change a number of tax provisions, including tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act that govern where critical minerals, advanced batteries and electric vehicles can be sourced, passed the House Ways and Means Committee on a party-line vote.
A recently introduced bill would end Chinese and Russian shippers' eligibility for de minimis, and would order the Treasury Department to determine, within 180 days, what rates the other countries deserve for de minimis, based on both their own de minimis treatment of U.S. shipments and their threshold to collect a value-added tax, if they have one.
A bill that approves the Taiwan trade initiative, but says it cannot take effect until the administration submits an economic analysis of its effects and answers questions from Congress on implementation, passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee on a 42-0 vote.