The U.S. has been making “excellent progress” in negotiations with Taiwan to broaden a trade deal signed earlier this year, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday.
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Mexico has temporarily restricted the import of U.S. fuel “under the guise of combating contraband fuel in the country,” the Texas House members charge.
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Sen. Whitehouse: “There is bipartisan momentum for a carbon border adjustment in the Senate – this is a solution endorsed by industry and experts across the political spectrum.”
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The effort would include an “expanded mapping and monitoring initiative, proactive work to address supply chain shocks before they occur, and engagement with key allies and international actors.”
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The five countries aim to grow “nuclear fuel production capacity across trusted, high-quality suppliers free from manipulation and influence.”
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The U.S. lacks a robust regulatory infrastructure for rapidly evolving technology – for instance, artificial intelligence – that affects the overall economy, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday, arguing that getting out ahead of domestic debates and decisions on digital trade would be “massive malpractice.”
House Ways & Means Committee members Blake Moore (R-UT) and Suzan DelBene (D-WA) last week introduced a bill they say would modernize the Generalized System of Preferences by increasing limits on how many key goods can be imported duty-free from beneficiary countries.
The Bureau of Industry of Security must undertake extensive reforms to ensure China does not acquire sensitive U.S. technology, the House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) says in a new review, calling on the agency to overhaul its licensing process to break free from what it calls a “free trade mentality.”
More than 50 agriculture organizations are pressing for more predictability in fertilizer supply chains and permanently lower duties on fertilizer imports from Morocco as the Commerce Department and the U.S. International Trade Commission consider further administrative action.
Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) this week introduced a bill that would direct the Commerce Department to funnel antidumping and countervailing duty revenue to a fund for communities harmed by unfair trading practices.
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National standards set to reduce carbon emissions are often designed with input from a narrow group of stakeholders and without consulting emerging-market economies, hurting development outcomes, analysts argued during a panel discussion at the United Nations COP28 climate summit on Tuesday.
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Advanced economies’ climate policies are causing a multilateralism “crisis” and undermining their fundamental commitments to the World Trade Organization, ministers from several developing economies said during the COP28 climate summit’s “Trade Day” on Monday.
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Congress will provide the Bureau of Industry and Security with new funding only if the agency undertakes a series of export control reforms, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) and two other prominent Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday took aim at House Republicans for blocking a bevy of China-related provisions in the annual defense authorization bill, saying they are sabotaging attempts to pass legislation with outbound investment provisions, restrictions on Chinese acquisitions of U.S. farmland and measures designed to hold Beijing responsible for the fentanyl crisis.
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The Biden administration has been advising Senate Finance Committee members Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on their forthcoming Americas Act, according to Bennet, who calls private-sector investment in the Western Hemisphere key to the success of their developing plan.
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U.S. dairy industry representatives were surprised and disappointed by a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement dispute settlement panel ruling that favored Canada in a spat over how Ottawa allocates dairy tariff-rate quotas – and are beginning to regroup and assess possible next steps, they tell Inside U.S. Trade.
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Advanced economies’ climate policies are causing a multilateralism “crisis” and undermining their fundamental commitments to the World Trade Organization, ministers from several developing economies said during the COP28 climate summit’s “Trade Day” on Monday.
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Wyden says he went to top White House officials with digital trade concerns
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) met with top White House officials last month to express frustration with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s decision to withdraw U.S. support for key digital trade measures at the World Trade Organization, he told Inside U.S. Trade this week.
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McCaul, in BIS review, calls for agency to drop ‘free trade mentality’
The Bureau of Industry of Security must undertake extensive reforms to ensure China does not acquire sensitive U.S. technology, the House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) says in a new review, calling on the agency to overhaul its licensing process to break free from what it calls a “free trade mentality.”
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Senate bill would disperse AD/CVD funds to communities hurt by trade
Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) this week introduced a bill that would direct the Commerce Department to funnel antidumping and countervailing duty revenue to a fund for communities harmed by unfair trading practices.
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Civil society to Biden: Conclude GASSA with EU, open similar talks with others
The U.S. and the European Union should be able to reach agreement on a steel and aluminum trade arrangement with a strong climate component, according to nine major civil society groups that are pressing President Biden to land an ambitious deal soon – and, in the meantime, to launch similar negotiations with other partners.
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