Inside Trade

November 4, 2024

World Trade Online

By Oliver Ward

Adjustments in the way the U.S. calculates its future sugar needs could lead to an unfair reduction of Mexico’s export quota, a senior Mexican official charged in correspondence published by the Commerce Department this week, though the U.S. insists the changes were minor.

By Hannah Monicken

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is leveraging Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity negotiations to advance an “anti-business” agenda, the chair of the House Oversight Committee alleges in a new report, charging that the FTC “pressured” U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on digital trade.

By Brett Fortnam

A new bill proposed by the chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party would reorganize the State Department to better compete against China, creating a deputy secretary for economic security position to handle all of the agency’s efforts to combat economic coercion, enforce sanctions and manage trade policy, export controls, supply chain security and foreign assistance.

By Brett Fortnam

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security should refine its proposed import ban on connected vehicles from foreign adversaries to include an exception for technologies developed in allied countries, according to an array of stakeholders including automotive companies, auto groups, and other business associations.

By Margaret Spiegelman

In a first meeting this week with a top trade official from Mexico’s new administration, Senior Adviser in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Cara Morrow called on the country to work with its North American neighbors to address a “wide and evolving range of non-market-based policies and practices.”

By Oliver Ward

The economic pressures from Chinese non-market practices are mounting, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States said on Thursday while also noting divergent EU-U.S. approaches to China and championing the Trade and Technology Council as a venue for trans-Atlantic cooperation on this front.

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