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Several U.S. business groups have formed an informal coalition to collectively lobby for the preservation of NAFTA and oppose a series of proposals put forward by the U.S. during the negotiations. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Coalition of Services Industries, the National Foreign Trade Council, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the U.S. Council for International Business are among those leading the effort. The group met with about two-thirds of House members last week, according to U.S. Chamber of...

Technology industry representatives today urged Congress to pressure the Trump administration to develop an international framework on digital trade policies and pushed for the inclusion of accountability mechanisms in trade deals to counter data localization requirements. During an Oct. 12 hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection subcommittee, representatives from the technology sector said the U.S. should assume a global leadership role in the development of digital trade rules. Victoria Espinel, president and...

Representatives from the United Steelworkers this week met with lawmakers and Commerce Department officials -- and held a phone call with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross -- to push for action on the stalled Section 232 investigation into the national security implications of steel imports. “Secretary Ross wants to release [the report] as soon as he can,” Tom Conway, international vice president of the United Steelworkers, told Inside U.S. Trade following the discussions. Executives from Nucor, AK Steel, U.S. Steel,...

The Solar Energy Industries Association, in a Sept. 19 letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission, knocked the petitioners in a safeguard investigation into solar imports for not following precedent and explaining how import relief would facilitate a “positive adjustment” to import competition, as allowed for in the law. The investigation -- brought under Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 -- began in May after a petition was filed by two U.S. solar companies, Suniva and SolarWorld, calling...