Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and ranking member Ron Wyden (D-OR) have told the Commerce Department, despite modifications to the Section 232 product-exclusion process earlier this year, companies applying for immunity continue to be confused and disadvantaged.
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A group of WTO ministers holds a mini-ministerial on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum each year.
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Georgetown law professor Jennifer Hillman writes that the U.S. “could destroy one of the best tools to hold China accountable,” but says Lighthizer “appears to prefer blowing up the entire system” rather than working to “fix the problems.”
Tue, 2:14 PM
“This agreement raises standards for trade policy, particularly in the life sciences sector, and sets high minimum standards and expectations for our trading partners to value American innovation.”
Tue, 10:38 AM
Perdue: “While there have been positive movements on the trade front, American farmers are continuing to experience losses due to unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. This assistance will help with short-term cash flow issues.”
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China on Monday admitted it has in the past exceeded its agricultural domestic support limits, but said it had eliminated the programs that led to those violations, according to notifications made to the World Trade Organization.
Members of the World Trade Organization on Monday implored the United States to show leadership in helping to reform the organization it was instrumental in founding rather than play a disruptive role that has led some to believe the WTO is headed toward permanent paralysis.
The European Parliament think thank, in an assessment of how the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement will impact European companies, is contending that some provisions of the deal might not be in compliance with World Trade Organization rules.
Incoming Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley's top trade priority in the next Congress will be the ratification of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the Iowa Republican told Inside U.S. Trade this week.
Business and technology groups want the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to address problematic digital services tax proposals recently pitched by the European Union, as well as longstanding regulatory cooperation issues with the bloc.
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Business and technology groups want the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to address problematic digital services tax proposals recently pitched by the European Union, as well as longstanding regulatory cooperation issues with the bloc.
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Several agriculture groups are calling for market access and sanitary and phytosanitary regulation language like that in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to be included in a U.S.-European Union trade deal, with one suggesting a World Trade Organization challenge could be coming if thorny issues are not ironed out during negotiations.
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GENEVA -- Some World Trade Organization members -- including China -- are linking progress on reforms in areas like state-owned enterprises, industrial subsidies and forced technology transfer to talks on agricultural subsidies, which have long been deadlocked at the WTO, according to Geneva...
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The U.S. is perfectly positioned to extract concessions from Beijing as the next 90 days progress, Clete Willems, the deputy assistant to the president for international economics, argued on Thursday.
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GENEVA -- Some World Trade Organization members -- including China -- are linking progress on reforms in areas like state-owned enterprises, industrial subsidies and forced technology transfer to talks on agricultural subsidies, which have long been deadlocked at the WTO, according to Geneva sources.
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Clete Willems, the deputy assistant to the president for international economics and the U.S. “Sherpa” at this year's G20 leaders summit, on Thursday touted what he called a historic communiqué from the leaders and asserted that the U.S. was not turning its back on the multilateral trading system.
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China launches DSB consultations with U.S. over state-level energy programs
China this week launched World Trade Organization dispute settlement consultations with the U.S. over a slew of state-level renewable energy programs it claims run afoul of Washington’s commitments in Geneva.
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