Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and ranking member Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, told U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai that USMCA's full potential has not been realized, and that USTR must pursue "robust enforcement."

Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., and Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., introduced a resolution that would end the administration's pause on antidumping and countervailing duty collection for solar panel firms operating in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam that have been identified as circumventing AD/CV duties on Chinese solar panels. That was the finding of a preliminary determination published in December.

Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., who was the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, will take the chairmanship of the subcommittee now that Republicans are in the majority. The announcement was made Jan. 26. He issued a statement that said American consumers and producers are sitting on "the sidelines of the global economy because of the Biden administration’s failure to put forward a proactive trade agenda."

Republicans named members to the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party. The committee will be bipartisan, but its Democratic members have not yet been announced.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced a bill that would stop electric vehicle tax credits for buyers until the Treasury Department issues guidance on battery and critical mineral content. The tax credits are currently available for North-America-assembled vehicles, no matter the content of their batteries, as Treasury said it needed more time to write guidance for those aspects of the law.

Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Bob Casey, D-Pa., are continuing to press Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to convince the president to hike tariffs on transformer inputs such as grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) laminations and cores. The two senators, who have a grain-oriented electrical steel producer in each of their states, published their letter on Jan. 13.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., new to the position, announced the committee's new Republican members:

An auto parts manufacturer in Piedras Negras, Mexico, which was previously subject to a rapid response complaint, is the target of a second complaint, this time by the union that won an election there in August, La Liga.

Members of the House of Representatives voted 365-65 on the second day of the session to create a Select Committee on China. The committee, which will be led by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., will be bipartisan.

For the first time in 100 years, the House of Representatives was unable to choose a speaker on the first vote. Because 19 Republicans this week voted for someone other than Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., no candidate got a majority of the votes. The same result happened on the second vote.