Last week, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced a bill that would sanction insurers/registrars of ships sending oil from Russia to China.

U.S. legislation to subsidize semiconductor production has passed the Senate, and will now go the House. A key provision imposes limits on production in China for subsidy recipients.

As part of the ongoing U.S. legislative debate over the CHIPS Act of 2022, a piece of legislation that would, among other things, provide over US$50 billion to the domestic semiconductor industry, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced three amendments that would "address critical errors and omissions

Several Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives have introduced legislation to prohibit federal government funds from going to blacklisted Chinese companies.

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to adopt an amendment led by Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) as part of the annual defense bill, which would require that "China-based issuers of certain unregistered securities provide basic information about themselves to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

A provision in the current version of the U.S. House of Representatives annual defense bill would ban all Chinese goods from U.S. military stores. The White House has announced its opposition to the provision.

On June 9, a bipartisan bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would restrict banks from doing business with entities operating in Xinjiang and other regions where human rights abuses occur.