Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce's Health Subcommittee criticized the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products for giving its blessing to so few vaping delivery systems and liquids put in electronic cigarettes, saying that the vast black market of vaping products is benefiting China, and that having so few legitimate products available makes it more dangerous for smokers who are wanting to switch from cigarettes to vaping, which is less harmful to their health.

House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., led a bipartisan trip to Argentina, Paraguay and Chile, where they heard from Argentina and Paraguay how crucial the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program is to the trading relationship.

A bill that passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee that would make consumer tax credits for electric vehicles more restrictive is on the schedule for a vote next week.

A bipartisan group of 10 House members, led by Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., is asking U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to engage with Mexico's leaders on that country's constitutional reforms.

The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, joined by a Republican and two other Democrats, is asking CBP to provide decision memoranda, emails, situation summaries, discussion and evaluation documents and briefing documents on how the agency is identifying seafood imports that were harvested by illegal fishing or processed with forced labor, including how ACE is collecting data.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Pennsylvania's two senators asked the government to lower the Section 232 quota for South Korean oil country tubular goods, as was done during the coronavirus pandemic.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., the committee's ranking member, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and the chairman and ranking member of its Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere said they are "deeply concerned that the proposed judicial reforms in Mexico would undermine the independence and transparency of the country’s judiciary," which would jeopardize U.S. and Mexican economic interests. The Mexican president wants to pass judicial reform, which would have judges elected in the future.

American drone maker Anzu Robotics produces DJI drones, not its own designs, allege the leaders of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is stepping down from leadership but remaining in the Senate, defended free trade in a speech in his home state last week.

The Coalition for a Prosperous America, which advocates for protecting American manufacturing, said the new Senate Finance Committee bill to restrict de minimis moves "things in the right direction," even more than the bill that passed the House Ways and Means Committee in the spring.