An outline of a proposed budget from the president increases money for CBP and trade enforcement divisions at Commerce, while cutting money for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, known as ILAB, the part of the Labor Department that works to identify forced labor risk and help combat it.

Ahead of the first day of the World Trade Organization’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14), U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer posted a YouTube video on March 26, in which he outlined the U.S.’s concerns about the current global trading system and its goals for MC14.

President Donald Trump said he has rescheduled his trip to China to May 14-15 and plans to host President Xi Jinping for a "reciprocal visit" in Washington later this year. The Beijing summit was originally planned for late March but was postponed because of the U.S. war against Iran. "Our Representatives are finalizing preparations for these Historic Visits," Trump wrote March 25 on Truth Social. "I look very much forward to spending time with President Xi in what will be, I am sure, a Monumental Event."

The leading trade hawk appointee in the Trump administration, Peter Navarro, said the loss at the Supreme Court on the legal underpinning of reciprocal tariffs was the best possible kind of loss "because the justices ratified and affirmed the use of every other statute we’ve been using."

Former Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who represented Oklahoma, was sworn in as the new DHS secretary March 24. He replaced former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.

The United States and Japan have enacted a new critical minerals supply chain action plan during Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s March 18-21 visit to Washington, formalizing what both governments described as a necessary counterweight to China’s dominance in mineral processing and pricing.

After President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times that he may delay the trip to China planned for the end of the month, members of his administration said it may wait until the war in the Iran region is over.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Federal Trade Commission to prioritize enforcement of false advertising of Made in the USA claims.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who made herself the face of the administration's anti-immigrant enforcement actions, was terminated March 5, the president announced on social media. He said Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., will be the new DHS secretary "effective March 31, 2026."

President Donald Trump said during his State of the Union address that he would move quickly to impose new tariffs using alternative legal authorities following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy duties.