House Democrats sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to end tariffs on India and repair the "strained" relationship with the country.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he participated this week in the reintroduction of a resolution to terminate the reciprocal tariffs emergency because "that's one of the keys to holding down costs. The President said that was his top priority, and he basically has run as aggressively and quickly as he could to get out from under it. And what we're doing, in a bipartisan way, is saying: If you're serious about holding down costs, you have to go out and fix these horrible tariffs that are jacking up costs all over."

House Select Committee on China ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., urged the Trump administration Oct. 8 to open new markets for U.S. soybean exports in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said late Oct. 7 that he hopes to have the Senate take up his Russia sanctions and tariff bill by month’s end to send a message to next month’s Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Canada.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, in trying to elaborate on the "significant tariff relief" he said was coming for domestic car production, said that the administration is considering how to "open the aperture" of how you use the 3.75% offset of tariffs available for autos assembled between April 3 and May 1, 2026.

Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to defend his assessment that "adequate systems were in place to 'fully and expeditiously process and collect duties for articles otherwise eligible for duty-free de minimis treatment on a global basis'" by July 30.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to expand trade actions started with the Section 232 investigation on pharmaceuticals, so that they cover generic drugs and the active pharmaceutical ingredients and key starting materials in those medicines.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, told Reuters that the White House is considering "significant tariff relief for U.S. auto production." Carmakers are paying higher tariffs on imported parts, steel and aluminum.

House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Rep. Richard Neal. D-Mass., Trade Subcommittee ranking member Rep. Linda Sánchez, D-Calif., and fellow committee member Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., said on Sept. 30 that letting the African Growth and Opportunity Act expire is "a grave mistake."

Reps. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and 23 other lawmakers from around the country asked U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to work with Japan and Vietnam on getting them to lower tariffs on and with South Korea on getting it to approve fresh blueberry exports from states other than Oregon.