USTR

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Monday announced the successful resolution of a labor issue at a Mexican auto parts facility – the first such incident resolved under the Trump administration. USTR in April announced that the agency and the Labor Department had asked Mexico to review a situation at an Aludyne facility where the U.S. had determined there was sufficient reason to believe there was a denial of worker rights in contravention of Mexico’s obligations under the...

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has extended exemptions from Section 301 tariffs for a host of goods from China, including Covid-related and solar manufacturing products. The exclusions, extended through August, apply to 164 products targeted by the first Trump administration, which include some Covid-related goods, as well as 14 carveouts for solar manufacturing equipment issued pursuant to tariffs the Biden administration imposed on China last September following its review of the original duties under Section 301 of the...

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a schedule for its annual review of sub-Saharan African countries eligibility for the African Growth and Opportunity Act – though whether any countries will benefit from the program next year will depend on whether Congress moves to extend it beyond a September expiration date. In a Federal Register notice set to be published on May 30, USTR calls for written comments as it develops recommendations on AGOA country eligibility for 2026...

A Guatemalan trade delegation this week presented U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer with a strategy to address trade irritants his agency singled out in its latest National Trade Estimate report, the country’s government said on Tuesday. While Guatemala is party to the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement, along with the U.S. and five other regional trading partners, the country's exports to the U.S. are subject to a 10 percent baseline tariff rate that President Trump announced in April. Guatemalan...

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Thursday took to social media to outline a range of concerns about foreign practices it says are hurting the U.S. film industry and audiovisual service providers after President Trump pledged to help by slapping movies not made domestically with tariffs. In a thread on X , USTR noted that Trump earlier this year named three actors – Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone – as “ambassadors to Hollywood.” Voight has claimed...