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Discussions around extending a moratorium prohibiting duties on digital trade, reforming the body’s processes and India’s rice subsidies will all be on the agenda next week when officials meet at the World Trade Organization’s 14th ministerial conference, analysts say.

In the latest setback for E15, mid-sized oil refiners say a congressional plan aimed at expanding the U.S. market for corn-based ethanol would cause them to shut down. The House GOP's new Rural Domestic Energy Council has until Sunday to offer up a plan for legislation that would allow year-round, nationwide sales of higher-ethanol blends.

Senior lawmakers on House and Senate panels responsible for trade legislation have had discussions with colleagues to see if there is an appetite for codifying any of the Trump administration’s trade and tariff deals.

A bipartisan group of more than 100 House lawmakers wrote to a top Trump administration trade official Thursday to argue the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement has benefitted U.S. ag exports and warn against weakening the deal as part of a forthcoming review.

More than a dozen House Republicans, many of whom are staunch backers of President Donald Trump, are the latest group of lawmakers to say they are troubled by plans to boost imports of Argentinian beef. 

House Republican leadership says it will stand up a party working group to examine U.S. tariff policy, areas for possible reform and Congress’ role in tariff setting, according to multiple people familiar with discussions.

For now, congressional Republicans are focused on their struggle to pass President Donald Trump’s “one, big beautiful” budget bill. But House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., already is eying legislation on trade and further tax provisions.

Senate Republicans are forging ahead this week with a budget strategy that punts the debate about expiring tax cuts until later in the year.