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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., urged the Commerce Department this week to investigate whether the fast-growing online shopping platform Temu, which is owned by Chinese company PDD Holdings, is violating U.S. trade laws.

The leaders of the House Select Committee on China urged the Commerce Department this week to investigate whether Chinese Wi-Fi router manufacturer TP-Link Technologies Co. Ltd. threatens U.S. national security.