Senate tells China bill conference to restart tariff exclusions

The Senate Wednesday approved a series of non-binding motions instructing the conferees tasked with sorting out the differences between competition-boosting bills passed by the House and Senate, including one directing them to ensure a provision restarting a Section 301 tariff-exclusion process makes it into the final legislation. Several of the 26 motions to instruct voted on by the Senate ordered conferees to insist a compromise bill include provisions parts of U.S. Innovation and Competition Act that the Senate passed last...