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Trade programs. S. 4582 (introduced June 18 by Sen. Brown, D-Ohio) would reauthorize the trade adjustment assistance program. TAA expired in 2022 and has historically been linked to reauthorization of trade promotion authority, which is used to negotiate free trade agreements but which the Biden administration has not pursued.
Critical minerals. The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party announced last week the formation of a policy working group focused on countering the CCP’s control of critical mineral supply chains. The working group “will work to create transparency into U.S. supply chain dependency for critical minerals and develop a package of proposed investments, regulatory reforms, and tax incentives to reduce that dependency,” the committee said.
Seafood trade. The Fisheries Improvement and Seafood Health Act (H.R. 8788, introduced June 18 by Rep. Peltola, D-Alaska) would direct the Government Accountability Office to submit to Congress a report on the competitiveness of domestic seafood producers in domestic and global seafood trade as well as a separate study to assess federal programs that support domestic seafood production.
Cooking oil. Six senators wrote to senior Biden administration officials June 20 to express concern about “increased imports of used cooking oil” and “the potential to exploit tax incentives by foreign actors.” The letter pointed out that U.S. imports of UCO increased from less than 200 million pounds per year in 2020 to more than three billion pounds in 2023, more than 50 percent of which came from China. The senators asked for answers to a number of related questions, including (1) whether product imported from China under HTSUS 1518.00.4000 meets the specifications for classification under that provision and (2) the current customs protocols for determining the suitability of Chinese UCO for importation into the U.S.
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