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Margaret Spiegelman

Margaret Spiegelman

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

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EU ‘Green Deal’ chief: U.S., EU set to ‘intensify’ talks on minerals pact

U.S. and European Union officials have agreed to make a renewed push in negotiations on critical minerals trade, a top EU climate official said on Tuesday, stressing a desire to translate diplomatic efforts into collaboration on “concrete” projects in third countries. European Commission Executive Vice President for the European Green Deal Maroš Šefčovič, in Washington this week for meetings with top Biden administration officials, said during an Atlantic Council event that officials were determined to take “another look” at the...

Deputy DG Ellard: In Geneva, the pre-MC13 mood is good despite challenges

The atmosphere in Geneva is “positive” -- and caffeine-fueled -- as negotiators press to advance talks on a host of issues before setting off later this month for the 13th World Trade Organization ministerial, WTO Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard said on Monday, citing a brighter mood compared to the last time negotiators were gearing up for a ministerial. “I would say that the atmosphere here in the lead-up to MC13 is actually more positive, it's better than it was in...

Senators seek info on deforestation linked to Mexican avocado trade

A group of Democratic senators is pressing the administration for more information about efforts to address concerns that Mexican avocados sold in the U.S. are being produced on illegally deforested land. In a Feb. 7 letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) and five other senators raised concerns about “reports of widespread illegal and unsustainable water use linked to avocados imported from Mexico” and called for...

ITC votes to continue probes into wine bottles from China, Mexico, Chile

The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to proceed with a set of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into wine bottles imported from China, Mexico and Chile. The ITC voted on Friday to continue the probes, requested last month by a coalition including domestic producer Ardagh Glass Inc. and the United Steelworkers, according to a statement issued by the commission. Accordingly, the Commerce Department “will continue its investigations of imports of glass wine bottles from Chile, China, and Mexico, with...

ITC cans potential duties on tin-mill steel from China, others

Tin-mill steel imports from China, Canada and Germany are not harming U.S. industry, the U.S. International Trade Commission has found, foreclosing the possibility of new duties sought by domestic producers. The ITC on Tuesday made negative determinations in the final phase of its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into tin-mill imports from the three countries, according to a statement issued by the commission. The commissioners also voted to terminate an antidumping investigation into tin-mill imports from South Korea, the commission...

Study: Trump’s ‘trade war’ was ‘at best a wash’ for jobs, good for GOP

The “trade war” initiated by former President Trump in 2018 delivered political dividends for the Republican party but did not bring back promised jobs in regions harmed by trade with China, a new study finds. “ Help for the heartland? The employment and electoral effects of the Trump tariffs in the United States ,” a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by economists David Autor, Anne Beck, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson, analyzes whether President Trump’s trade policies –...

Canada’s trade minister knocks U.S. plan to hike softwood lumber duties

A Commerce Department plan to raise duties on Canadian softwood lumber is “entirely unwarranted,” Canadian Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development Mary Ng said on Thursday, pledging to continue to fight the measures “through all available avenues.” Commerce earlier this week issued the preliminary results of its latest annual administrative review of antidumping and countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber, measures Ottawa has challenged in multiple ways, including under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement and at the World Trade...

Dombrovskis: EU suggested opening technical steel talks to other countries

The European Union wants to explore ways to bring other countries into the bloc’s technical discussions with the U.S. about how to decarbonize the steel and aluminum sectors, the EU trade minister says, telling Inside U.S. Trade those talks are set to continue even as negotiations on a broader agreement remain at an impasse. Japan, the United Kingdom and Canada, among others, have expressed interest in joining the decarbonization discussions, European Commission Executive Vice President and Trade Commissioner Valdis...

Europe seeks reassurances from U.S. following LNG export-approval pause

The European Union’s top trade official this week discussed the U.S.’ recent decision to pause liquefied natural gas export approvals with senior administration officials in Washington and was reassured the decision would not imperil EU supplies, he told Inside U.S. Trade. Analysts, however, say the long-term prospects for LNG exports, particularly to Asia, are more uncertain. “The response we were getting was reassuring that certainly there's no intention to, in a sense, harm the LNG supplies to the EU,”...

Raimondo hopes industry, civil society push for TTC’s survival

U.S. and European Union policymakers will do what they can to protect the Trade and Technology Council’s future, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Tuesday, but she hopes industry and civil society have seen the merits of the forum and will demand its survival beyond this year’s pivotal EU and U.S. elections. “We have been, I think, very good at engaging stakeholders in our work,” Raimondo said at a Jan. 30 event with European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager...

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