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SCOOPLET House Democrats vow to include paid family and medical leave for every worker in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package. House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal made the pledge today in a letter to Democratic members of the committee, acquired by Nightly’s Myah Ward. Neal also said child care “needs to be a guarantee.”
Philip Morris has won a review of a vaping patent owned by rival R.J. Reynolds' parent company at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, a little less than a year after the U.S. International Trade Commission opened an investigation into the same patent.
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How a battery plant dispute in Georgia pits Biden s climate goals against U.S. trade policy
The president faces a dilemma this week on whether to overturn a trade commission ruling and allow a major battery factory to be completed.
The White House has laid out electric vehicle goals in its latest infrastructure plan, aiming to convert all federally owned vehicles to electric, deploy hundreds of thousands of charging stations and provide generous customer rebates to get new models rolling out of dealerships. | Steve Helber/AP Photo
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President Joe Biden’s ambitious electric vehicle plan has run into a huge hurdle with U.S. trade law, forcing him to choose between swing-state jobs and American intellectual property rules that have come under intense scrutiny during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Key developments
IHS Markit predicts a
global production loss of 1.3 million vehicles in Q1 2021 due to supply chain challenges that include shortages of semiconductors, steel and polypropylene.
Due to the semiconductor shortage,
F-150.
Preliminary estimates for
U.S. new light-vehicle
inventories have declined by 21% industrywide compared to the same period one year ago.
potential shift away from the just-in-time production model for certain critical components.
The
Biden administration will host a meeting with automotive and semiconductor companies on April 12 to discuss the global chip shortage.
If the existing trade disputes with China were not bad enough for American farmers, now another trade action could hurt them. It will also likely hurt individuals and businesses throughout the food supply chain.