The Senate Finance Committee held a confirmation hearing on April 10 for William Kimmitt to serve as undersecretary of commerce for international trade. In this role, Kimmitt would lead the International Trade Administration, the wing of the Commerce Department tasked with enforcing antidumping and countervailing duty laws.

House Democrats, left and center, introduced a bill that would roll back all the tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act -- 10% global tariffs and those on Canada and Mexico -- and would require that most tariffs, quotas, tariff rate quotas or concessions receive approval from Congress before going into effect.

Reps. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Jeff Hurd, R-Colo., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., have introduced a bill that would require congressional approval for certain future tariff actions, matching legislation introduced by senators last week (see 2504030018).

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the lead Republican on a bill that would prevent future executive tariffs from lasting more than 60 days without an approval in Congress, said on a phone call with reporters that it was a deliberate choice not to have the bill roll back Section 232 tariffs on autos, steel and aluminum, Section 301 tariffs on China, or tariffs on nearly all countries under the guise of national emergencies.

Momentum is building for a bill that would prevent President Donald Trump from imposing tariffs on lumber, semiconductors or medicines without congressional approval -- if the bill could overcome a presidential veto before those tariffs are imposed.

Ahead of a long night of amendment votes on budget instructions to renew President Donald Trump's tax cuts, Democratic senators highlighted amendments that will say that new tariffs should expire if they raise prices on groceries, new houses and other goods. Those amendments, even if they gain a majority, do not actually change the laws that allowed the tariffs to be levied.

Members of Congress didn't split wholly along party lines in praising or panning the dramatic increase in global tariffs coming in the next week.

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have introduced a bill to prevent the sale and import of fraudulent honey. The bill requires the FDA to create a formal definition and standard for honey and mandates the destruction of adulterated honey.

Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urging him and President Donald Trump to exempt child care products from tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada. The tariffs will raise prices on "car seats, highchairs, strollers, and cribs" and "exacerbate the cost of caring for babies and toddlers," the lawmakers said.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., introduced a bill this week that would impose a tariff on imported Australian Waygu beef. The U.S. and Australia have an FTA, but Australia does not allow any beef imports from the U.S., ostensibly over concerns over mad cow disease. A meat export trade group says typical U.S. beef would not be price-competitive in Australia, but argued that the trade barrier should be lowered nonetheless.