The newest revised text in the plurilateral World Trade Organization e-commerce talks, which features some amendments on key issues like customs duties and development and removes one article entirely, should be considered as an “overall package” as participants consult with capital officials, its drafters said this week.
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Keith Rockwell: “Maybe, just maybe, the coming months will show a new determination to break with the past and seriously address the organization’s shortcomings. The alternative is a continued drift to irrelevance.”
Tue, 3:01 PM
Neil Beck, the deputy in the office of WTO and multilateral affairs, will take over the duties of Andrea Durkin, who has left the agency.
Tue, 10:47 AM
“Repealing these tax credits keeps China out of our markets and lets Americans, not Washington, use their hard-earned money to purchase the vehicles that are best for them.”
Mon, 11:12 AM
The trip will include a stop in Angola “to meet with officials and potential buyers focused on the Lobito Corridor,” a G7 infrastructure project.
Fri, 5:28 PM
The Biden administration was right to pause approvals of new liquefied natural gas export facilities while it undertakes an “overdue” examination of whether projects are in the public interest, more than 70 Democratic lawmakers said on Tuesday.
The results of the Biden administration’s four-year review of Section 301 tariffs on goods from China must be “significant and substantive,” the chairs of the House Ways & Means Committee and its trade subcommittee said this week.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s decision last October to withdraw support for U.S. negotiating positions on key digital trade principles at the World Trade Organization has sparked praise and criticism from different corners – and surfaced competing contentions about whether and how digital trade is, at its heart, really about trade.
Biden administration officials last week quizzed industry representatives on how their sectors weathered pandemic-era supply chain disruptions and what tools helped ease pressures as the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative explores ways to strengthen U.S. supply chains.
The Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that aluminum extrusion imports from 14 countries have been sold in the U.S. at “less than fair value,” with Turkey and China receiving the largest dumping rates.
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Just a couple months after the World Trade Organization’s 13th ministerial conference wrapped up, a group of trade ministers – or their deputies – gathered in Paris on Thursday to attempt to advance key issues, including two missed opportunities at MC13.
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Deputy U.S. Trade Representative María Pagán will represent the U.S. at a mini World Trade Organization ministerial in Paris on Thursday on the sidelines of an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development gathering.
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The Biden administration has finalized guidance on electric vehicle tax credit rules crafted to lessen dependencies on China, adding a minerals tracing test and easing a rule for graphite as producers adjust their supply chains.
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Seven Senate Democrats, including three gunning for re-election in swing states, are urging the Biden administration to maintain or increase tariffs on goods from China.
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Industry and labor representatives last week appealed to Biden administration officials to update free trade agreements and trade programs to tighten rules of origin and labor provisions as part of an effort to strengthen U.S. supply chain resilience.
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Mexico has not demonstrated that its restrictions on genetically engineered corn are rooted in valid food safety concerns, the U.S. says in a new submission to a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement dispute settlement panel, charging that the country failed to conduct a risk assessment before implementing the measures and is relying on “dubious” studies to defend them.
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The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is evaluating whether higher tariffs and updated regulations recently issued by Mexico could help address Washington’s concerns that third-country producers are routing steel and aluminum products through the country to evade U.S. tariffs, according to a senior USTR official.
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