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President Trump on Tuesday said he would press European leaders to impose tariffs on countries that purchase Russian oil in hopes of ending the war in Ukraine, contending that European action is needed to make U.S. duties effective. “In the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war, then the United States is fully prepared to impose a very strong round of powerful tariffs, which would stop the bloodshed, I believe, very quickly,” Trump...

The Justice Department’s opening brief to the Supreme Court defending President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs attacked previous decisions that would scrap them as “textually incoherent” and legally “incorrect,” urging the justices to declare that IEEPA “plainly” gives the executive broad discretion on tariffs. “The power to ‘regulate importation’ plainly encompasses the power to impose tariffs,” reads DOJ’s brief , filed late on Sept. 19 in the Supreme Court’s combined IEEPA suit known as Learning Resources, et al.,...

The U.S. Trade Representative should push Canada and Mexico to establish foreign investment screening mechanisms aimed at detecting threatening investments from China, Sens. David McCormick (R-PA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) say, eyeing the 2026 review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement in a bill introduced on Friday. USTR this week kicked off its public consultation process for the first USMCA review, which is set for next summer. Canada and Mexico are similarly preparing for the mandatory assessment. If the countries do...

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet in South Korea next month on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ summit, Trump said on Friday, describing what he called a “very productive call” with Xi. The meeting will come less than two weeks before the Nov. 10 expiration of a détente on retaliatory trade measures the U.S. and China agreed to in May and have already extended once. The call followed meetings earlier this week in Madrid...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Bryan Switzer as deputy U.S. Trade Representative for Asia, textiles, investment, services and intellectual property after the chamber’s GOP majority changed procedural rules to accelerate approvals of sub-Cabinet executive branch nominees by barring filibusters on “en bloc” confirmations that can cover dozens of officials at once. Switzer, a former longtime State Department official who goes by Rick, was one of 48 nominees that lawmakers grouped together under S. Res. 337 ; the bloc passed the...

The Supreme Court will hold oral argument in the combined legal challenges to President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs the morning of Nov. 5, solidifying its earlier plan to hear the suits sometime in the first week of November. The court on Sept. 18 posted a new hearing calendar for November showing the two consolidated tariff cases -- known as Learning Resources v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections -- as the only ones the justices will hear...

GENEVA – Trade can help ensure all economies have access to economic gains anticipated from artificial intelligence, the World Trade Organization’s Secretariat says in its annual World Trade Report, highlighting an opportunity it contends the WTO can help unlock. The 2025 report , launched on Wednesday at the start of the WTO’s Public Forum here, examines several questions about the potential economic impacts of AI, including how it could boost growth and how different policy paths, leading to a wider...

House Republicans on Tuesday narrowly adopted a rule that will allow them to avoid votes on resolutions repealing President Trump’s “emergency” tariffs on several U.S. trading partners through March 2026, just as Democrats are ramping up the use of such measures in both chambers of Congress. The House on Sept. 16 voted 213-211 to adopt H. Res 707 , a rules package that largely sets parameters for floor debates on several criminal-justice bills. It also changes procedures for the chamber...

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is formally seeking public comment that will inform the Trump administration’s statutorily mandated review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement next year, with written input due to arrive the first week of November ahead of a public hearing in Washington, DC, later that month. A Federal Register notice establishing that timeline is slated for publication on Sept. 17, according to a preliminary version posted Tuesday morning. USMCA requires that the three governments conduct their first...