Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., reintroduced a bill that would require the Federal Trade Commission, in consultation with the Commerce Department, to write a report on the effects of foreign investment in U.S. pharmaceutical supply chains. The senators said their bill would provide information that would help the U.S. reduce its dependence on potentially unreliable imports, including ingredients used in generic drugs. The United States Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Review Act was referred to the Senate Banking Committee.

Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., led a bipartisan letter asking the International Trade Commission to consider an antidumping and countervailing duty case brought by Ferroglobe and CC Metals and Alloys.

Eight Republicans, led by Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., asked the Commerce Department to reconsider how importers of hardwood plywood can participate in a certification regime, so that CBP knows those imports are not within the scope of an anti-circumvention case on Vietnamese hardwood plywood with Chinese inputs.

Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif., introduced legislation that would require mediation "to be exhausted" before port workers can go on strike, she announced Oct. 2. She called the bill the Safeguarding the Supply Chain Act.

An effort to change CBP rules to allow more information sharing on counterfeits with rights holders has been attached to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said this week.

Rep. Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat representing a district with a majority of Donald Trump voters, has introduced a bill to impose a blanket 10% additional tariff on all imports, an echo of Trump's original proposal. The former president later said he might impose a 20% tariff on those imports.

A hearing about the Time to Choose Act, a bipartisan bill that would ban consultants and other service providers from working both with the U.S. government and Chinese-owned companies, Senate Homeland Security Committee ranking member Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he agreed with a witness who said it could create a slippery slope.

Three Republican senators reintroduced a bill to end permanent normal trade relations with China, and to set tariff rates of at least 35% for Chinese goods, if the Column 2 tariffs are not that high, as well as 100% tariffs on 38 pages of Harmonize Tariff Schedule lines enumerated in the bill.

Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and chairman of the Budget Committee, recently introduced a bill that would allow the administration to impose Section 301 tariffs on goods made outside of China if they are made by Chinese firms.

More than 70 members of the House of Representative are asking the administration to ask the European Union to delay its deforestation reporting requirements, which they say would be impossible to meet for wood chips and fluff pulp, used in menstrual pads and diapers.