A newly introduced House bill would dedicate revenue from tariffs to a new program providing temporary assistance to American manufacturers, farmers and other producers that can demonstrate material economic injury from those tariffs or foreign retaliatory measures.
October 9, 2026
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Lamb imports are contributing to “mounting pressures” on U.S. sheep producers, a bipartisan group of 68 lawmakers told the U.S. International Trade Commission this week, backing those companies in an ongoing investigation that could lead to new trade protections.
Merchandise trade in 2026 is expected to grow by 3.9 percent, according to the World Trade Organization, which has increased an earlier forecast due to artificial intelligence capital investments and increased fuel and fertilizer supplies.
A judge on the Court of International Trade has approved importers’ class-action suit over International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariff refunds “in the hope, and expectation” that it will lead to repayment of “all” money the administration collected from those duties before the Supreme Court overturned them, rather than requiring importers to act individually to claim those funds.
While President Trump is still “going to decide” whether to impose new tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil and gas under the sanctions bill he signed into law last month, the administration sees the measure's waiver authority as a tool to enable negotiations as an alternative, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Thursday.
The Trump administration’s argument for why it makes importers sue individually to receive refunds of International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs they paid on “finally liquidated” shipments is “illogical,” ignores statutory text and “borders on the absurd,” an importer coalition told a federal appeals court this week.
The U.S. this week criticized the justification used by backers of the Electronic Commerce Agreement for their plan to use World Trade Organization resources to provisionally implement the plurilateral deal.
