The Trump administration has nominated Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Luke Lindberg to lead the United Nations World Food Program, the State Department announced on Wednesday.
April 9, 2026
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World Trade Organization members will hold a General Council meeting early next month, where they are expected to take up draft texts on reform and e-commerce left unfinished at the 14th WTO ministerial conference.
The Trump administration is pursuing only limited changes to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement ahead of its upcoming review, House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) said on Tuesday, arguing alongside two Democratic colleagues that the U.S. should push for more aggressive reforms to bolster worker protections amid a national cost-of-living crisis.
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The first two days of the World Trade Organization’s 14th ministerial conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, were focused on forward-looking discussions on how to reform the organization, as its negotiating function has largely stagnated and its dispute settlement remains paralyzed. But some members, according to summaries by ministers who facilitated the so-called “breakout sessions,” used them to focus on the past -- including mandates for outcomes that have long divided the WTO membership and helped create a deadlock that has led other members to insist on reforms.
Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton has granted plaintiffs a dismissal in a case that had been the forum for his decisions involving U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s issuance of tariff refunds and lifted a stay in another case that will become the venue for his continued dialogue with CBP.
The European Union has begun to engage with the U.S. on the Trump administration's concerns about EU digital regulations, including the Digital Markets Act, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Tuesday, while stressing that the discussions remained sensitive.
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The Commerce Department “unnecessarily” reduced a preliminary dumping rate for unwrought palladium imports from Russian sources that did not cooperate with an investigation, the United Steelworkers says, warning of a broader slackening in trade enforcement.