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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) talks to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) prior to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivering a video address to U.S. Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on March 16, 2022. Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images
The House on Thursday passed a bill that will end permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia and Belarus in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Lawmakers voted 424-8 to back the legislation which, if made law, will allow the Biden administration to impose new higher tariffs on products from Russia and Belarus until Jan. 1, 2024.