U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the administration will solicit comments on which types of "non-sensitive goods" should get tariff relief, so that trade can be facilitated between the U.S. and China.
Former U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai told reporters May 11 that she’s concerned the U.S. and China will neglect holding substantial conversations about their trade and economic relationship in talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping scheduled to begin later in the week.
A former director of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative responsible for Brazil said President Donald Trump's meeting last week with Brazilian President Luiz Inacia Lula da Silva "went way better" than she expected.
The Commerce Department recently initiated a countervailing duty investigation on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Algeria (C-721-003). The CVD investigation period is calendar year 2025.
Trade groups representing a wide swath of businesses accused the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative of using Section 301 to reverse-engineer the global tariffs that were struck down by the Supreme Court.
Despite the failure to extend the moratorium on duties on electronic transmissions at the World Trade Organization's 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in late March, countries likely won’t impose duties on electronic transmissions, digital trade experts told us.
A domestic producer coalition recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department requesting new countervailing duties on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Algeria. Commerce will now decide whether to begin a CVD investigation, which could result in the imposition of a permanent CVD order and the assessment of CVD on importers.
The annual National Trade Estimate, which enumerates hundreds of tariff and non-tariff barriers to U.S. goods and services exports, asserted it would try to "quantitatively assess the potential effect of removing certain foreign trade barriers to particular U.S. exports," but the estimate largely steers clear of estimating the value of lost export sales.
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.
Members of the World Trade Organization failed to reach consensus on WTO reform or an agreement on extending the moratorium on customs duties for electronic transmissions at the 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14), hosted in Cameroon March 26-30.