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Margaret Spiegelman

Margaret Spiegelman

Margaret Spiegelman is an associate editor with Inside U.S. Trade.

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Canada’s trade minister: USMCA up for review – not renegotiation – in 2026

An upcoming review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement will provide a “checkpoint” to ensure the deal remains up to date, Canada’s trade minister said on Thursday, pushing back on suggestions that the first-of-its-kind review could turn into a renegotiation. “This joint review process is not a renegotiation, but rather it's a focused checkpoint to ensure that CUSMA remains relevant and continues to strengthen our region's competitiveness and resilience, all while serving Canada's interests,” Canadian Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and...

Ways & Means trade subcommittee eyes AGOA renewal, updates

House lawmakers in both parties on Wednesday voiced strong support for renewing the African Growth and Opportunity Act before it expires next year, committing to improve the two-decade-old trade preference program while hashing out the terms of that extension. The Ways & Means trade subcommittee addressed AGOA, as well as preference programs with Haiti that also are set to expire next year, during a hearing described by Chair Adrian Smith (R-NE) as a “continuation of a deliberate Ways and Means...

Sen. Lankford: U.S. must engage partners on critical minerals trade

The U.S. must pursue long-lasting trade partnerships with trusted countries to ensure secure supplies of critical minerals and reduce China’s “leverage,” Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said on Tuesday. Lankford, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, spoke about critical minerals as a key element of U.S. energy security during an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Trade partnerships with trusted allies, he said, will be key to filling a gap between demand for critical minerals and...

Wyden presses BMW for ‘straight answers’ on links to banned supplier

Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) is demanding detailed information from BMW about its due diligence practices and its use of parts from a supplier alleged to use forced labor. Democratic committee staff members since late 2022 have been probing automakers’ supply chains following a report by researchers at Sheffield Hallam University that alleged links between some automakers and suppliers that use forced labor in the Uyghur region of China. In a report on that effort released last month,...

ITC votes to continue probes into solar imports from Southeast Asia

The U.S. International Trade Commission has preliminarily determined that solar cells and panels imported from four countries in Southeast Asia are harming the U.S. industry. The ITC and the Commerce Department have been investigating imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam following petitions filed earlier this year by the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, a group that represents seven domestic manufacturers. The petitions allege that unfairly priced and subsidized imports from...

Sources: Market status a top ask for Vietnam ahead of U.S. partnership upgrade

A change in how the Commerce Department treats Vietnam’s economy for the purposes of administering U.S. antidumping duties was a top priority for Hanoi in discussions with Washington that led the two countries last year to elevate their bilateral relationship, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade ahead of a final decision by the U.S. due next month. Commerce since 2002 has treated Vietnam as a “non-market economy,” a label that generally leads to higher duties in dumping cases. According to an...

Sen. Warren: GSP must be paired with TAA -- sans retroactive benefits

Lawmakers must renew Trade Adjustment Assistance as part of any deal to reauthorize the Generalized System of Preferences and should not provide retroactive benefits to importers once GSP is restored, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said on Wednesday. Warren said she also wants to see GSP used to provide market-access benefits for U.S. exporters. Speaking during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on GSP, the African Growth and Opportunity Act and other preference programs, Warren decried a proposal by Republican House lawmakers...

Canadian industry, unions urge Ottawa to gird for 2026 USMCA review

Representatives from Canadian industry, labor and civil society groups last week called on lawmakers in Ottawa to start gearing up for tough negotiations with Washington when the countries review their renegotiated trade agreement in 2026. The Canadian House of Commons’ Standing Committee on International Trade heard from stakeholders in the steel, automotive, dairy and manufacturing industries, as well as union and civil society groups, about their chief priorities for the 2026 review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement during a hearing last...

Commerce says China unfairly subsidizes its glass wine bottle industry

The Commerce Department this week preliminarily determined that Beijing unfairly subsidizes its glass wine bottle industry, setting high duty rates on Chinese producers that could increase amid a pending antidumping probe. The department has been reviewing allegations by domestic producer Ardagh Glass Inc. and the United Steelworkers that glass wine bottles from China are unfairly priced and subsidized, in addition to claims from the same groups that Mexico and Chile are dumping glass wine bottles on the U.S. market. In...

Shipping industry to USTR: Port fee would not alter China’s incentives 

A port fee on Chinese-built ships sought by a coalition of U.S. unions would not meaningfully change China’s support of its shipbuilding sector, a major global shipping trade association told the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Wednesday, arguing that operators could avoid the fee by substituting other foreign-made vessels to service U.S. routes. The potential impacts of the proposed fee – called for in a petition filed earlier this year by a group of major unions – were...

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