119 HR 694
Restoring Trade Fairness Act
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
2025-01-23
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Elena Marsh (Intel Desk)
Markets have priced the pause as resolution; the $18.1B equity outflow and $7.86B money market inflow suggest retail investors are less convinced.
The market is pricing a de-escalation scenario. The data says the conflict's underlying triggers remain unresolved. The gap is the trade. Oil dropped more than 2% on the pause announcement per CNBC reporting, and WTI had already pulled back sharply in the prior session with Brent down 8.7% to $88.36/barrel as of Monday's close — that is a significant demand-shock pricing reversal that assumes the pause becomes a deal. But ICI fund flow data this week shows $18.1 billion net outflow from equity funds against a $7.86 billion inflow to money market funds — retail is not rotating back into risk. Real GDP for 2026Q1 came in at +2.1% SAAR after 2025Q4's near-stall at +0.5%, which means the economy has some buffer, but a resumed conflict that spikes energy prices would eat directly into that recovery. The ammunition-reserves question Trump deflected is also a fiscal signal — procurement surge spending would hit the deficit at exactly the moment S 5019, the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act, is the most-viewed legislation in Congress, not defense appropriations.
2026-07-28
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Made in Michigan Again: President Trump’s Trade Agenda Is Supercharging American Auto Manufacturing
President Donald J. Trump returns to Michigan today to visit the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford and celebrate the roaring comeback of American auto manufacturing under his leadership. Since taking office, President Trump has ignited an automotive renaissance — onshoring
Read on whitehouse.gov →Actions by the United States in the Investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 of the Acts, Policies, and Practices of 60 Economies Related to the Failure of Each Economy to Impose and Effectively Enforce a Prohibition on the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labor
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE Subject: Actions by the United States in the Investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 of the Acts, Policies, and Practices of 60 Economies Related to the Failure of Each Economy to Impose and Effectively Enfor
Read on whitehouse.gov →The paths to high-demand careers in the skilled trades
Many skilled-trades careers offer paid apprenticeships and OJT, no 4-year degree required. New VA and DOL partnership shows you how to get started.
Read on news.va.gov →Regulators (rule-making and recall language)
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FTC Returns Money to Consumers Harmed by Trend Deploy’s Deceptive Marketing
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $672,000 to consumers deceived by the operator of Trend Deploy, Frank Romero. The FTC is mailing 9,419 checks to affected consumers, who should cash their checks within 90 days, as indicated on the check. Image Consumers who have
Read on ftc.gov →Student Loan Forgiveness Scammer Permanently Banned from Debt Relief Industry and Telemarketing
Dennise Merdjanian, an operator of a student loan debt forgiveness scheme, will be permanently banned from the debt relief industry and telemarketing under a proposed order resolving the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that she and other operators took more than $45.
Read on ftc.gov →FTC Takes Action Against Elite Events for Bypassing Ticket Purchase Limits in Violation of Better Online Ticket Sales Act
Proposed order settling FTC allegations will require company and its executives to pay $300,000 and ban them from using unlawful tactics to bypass ticket purchase limits Ticket broker Elite Events and its operators will pay $300,000 in civil penalties to resolve Federal Trade Com
Read on ftc.gov →Fiscal Year 2027 Tariff-Rate Quota Allocations for Raw Cane Sugar, Refined Sugar, and Sugar-Containing Products
The Office of the United States Trade Representative is providing notice of allocations of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 (October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027) in-quota quantities of the tariff- rate quotas (TRQs) for imported raw cane sugar, certain sugars, syrups and molasses
Read on federalregister.gov →Markets vs Bill
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