On the eve of President Donald Trump’s May 13-15 trip to Beijing, three veteran trade experts said the U.S. is moving toward a more “managed” approach to trade with China, as the administration prepares to raise a proposed U.S.-China Board of Trade during the visit.
Trade compliance teams are adopting AI faster than the governance structures needed to control it, creating a growing gap between efficiency and defensibility that regulators have already begun to scrutinize, according to a veteran industry strategist.
The Aluminum Association is calling for tighter tariff alignment and real‑time import monitoring across North America in the upcoming USMCA joint review, industry executives said April 23, arguing that current enforcement gaps leave openings for circumvention and weaken the region’s integrated aluminum supply chain.
Mexico's Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said on April 22 that Mexico must move past the expectation of a zero-tariff environment as the country prepares for a fundamental shift in North American trade relations.
A year after President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement disrupted decades of U.S.-led economic integration, America’s closest partners are rapidly restructuring their trade relationships -- a reordering that trade experts warned could permanently weaken Washington’s influence in the global system.
Former senior trade officials clashed over the Trump administration’s escalating tariff actions, debating whether rapid‑fire proclamations, shifting authorities and overlapping investigations are creating needed leverage or leaving companies struggling to manage supply-chain uncertainty.
Former Mexican Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo said he sees no risk that the United States will pull out of the U.S.‑Mexico‑Canada Agreement as the pact heads into its first joint review on July 1.
A panel of trade experts offered a candid assessment of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), calling it a powerful engine of regional integration that's increasingly strained by unresolved disputes, tariff tensions and shifting geopolitical pressures as the pact approaches its first joint review.
China’s Ministry of Commerce on March 27 began two trade barrier investigations on U.S. policies that it said are harming Chinese commercial interests -- one targeting alleged U.S. actions that “undermine global production and supply chains,” and another examining measures said to “hinder the trade of green products.”
The European Parliament on March 26 approved its negotiating mandate on two legislative proposals implementing the tariff provisions of the EU‑U.S. Turnberry deal, adding a suite of new safeguards aimed at protecting EU industry if Washington backtracks on its commitments.