The US Senate responded to a US court ruling against duties on goods from China and Vietnam by unanimously passing a bill that upheld Washington’s right to add duties to such imports, Reuters reported. The bipartisan bill, which has the support of the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, may be passed through the House of Representatives as early as Tuesday, after which President Barack Obama is expected to sign it into law. The Obama administration helped draft the legislation after an appeals court ruled in December that the US Commerce department did not have the legal authority to impose countervailing duties. That ruling endangered countervailing duties on two dozen imports from China and Vietnam, including steel, aluminum, plastic shopping bags, that some in the US claim protected 80,000 American jobs.