The US is deploying an aircraft carrier and accompanying vessels to waters near the peninsula amid indications the DPRK is planning its sixth nuclear test.
The US Department of Transportation has already started investigations into the matter.
The US Food and Drug Administration last month announced a ban on flavored e-cigarette products aimed at teenagers but exempted tobacco-flavored and menthol pods.
The United States, the first country to recognize Guaido and one that openly seeks to depose Maduro, has renewed its support to the Venezuelan opposition.
The US deficit in international trade of goods and services in August and July hit new highs a few months after the imposition of tariffs on large quantities of imports, amid an ostensible claim to cut down trade deficit and wishful strategy to bring back manufacturing.
The US assigns the same high degree of importance to the military-to-military relationship as China does, Mattis said.
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The US House of Representatives on Dec 2 passed a bipartisan bill that would delist Chinese companies from US stock exchanges if they did not comply with American financial auditing rules.
The US Federal Reserve slashed the policy rates by a full percentage point to a range of 0.0 to 0.25 percent on Sunday, hours before international financial markets opened for the new trading week, to curb investors' panic after abrupt declines in stock prices last week. It also promised to boost its bond holdings by at least 0 billion to maintain financial stability.
The US vice president is also expected to meet with top Iraqi leaders to discuss the latest developments in Iraq and the bilateral relations, it added.
The US had reported a total of 11 million COVID-19 cases and 246,586 deaths by Monday, by far the largest number in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. The average number of new cases there reported each day during the past week has exceeded 150,000.