Rep. Claudia Tenney introduced a bill this week calling for a Section 301 unfair trade investigation into Canada and other countries that the lawmaker says have unfairly blocked US alcohol exports.

The U.S. Supreme Court passed on a closely watched challenge to the legality of the Trump administration's expansion of Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports, leaving intact a Federal Circuit ruling …

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is headed to Mexico this week to continue discussions in advance of the upcoming mandated review of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. A key topic of …

The Trump administration currently is drafting a plurilateral agreement on critical minerals trade with key trading partners to lessen dependence on China, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Thursday.

The statute President Donald Trump used to craft punitive tariffs on dozens of U.S. trade partners does not authorize the White House to impose tariffs, the Supreme Court held in a 6-3 decision Friday.

With U.S. shoppers’ grocery bills ever more in focus as the holidays near, a range of food and agriculture trade moves made headlines this week, starting with the news that tariffs may wipe Italian pasta makers off U.S. grocery store shelves.  

At 7 p.m. on a Thursday evening at the end of September, President Donald Trump announced new national security tariffs on foreign-made big rig trucks, cabinets and vanities and branded pharmaceuticals. In keeping with other tariff moves thus far in Trump’s second term, the announcement came not as an official White House statement or Federal Register notice, but in a series of posts on the president’s own social media platform.

The Trump administration reacted to the Federal Circuit’s ruling against the global “reciprocal” tariffs and other emergency duties this week, filing its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, a move that trade observers have expected since wine importer V.O.S. Selections Inc. and others launched their suits contesting the levies. The question now is how the high court will handle the petition, and how the administration will respond if the justices back the lower courts’ decisions.

A Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) panel under the USMCA has issued the first-ever denial of rights determination, ruling that Atento Servicios, S.A. de C.V. unlawfully interfered with union activity at its call center in Pachuca, Hidalgo.

When President Donald Trump rewrote the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States at the start of August a new condition appeared in the thrice-revised emergency tariff program alongside the shifting “reciprocal” levies.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer laid out his three-point priorities list during an appearance in Detroit on Wednesday, distancing himself from predecessors who he said centered their goals on reaching specific trade agreements.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative has released President Donald Trump’s 2025 Trade Policy Agenda, outlining a strategy to revitalize American manufacturing and reinforce national security through assertive trade measures. The agenda emphasizes the necessity of a “Production Economy,” asserting that “Americans are more than just what they consume,” and that the nation should not merely “move money around.” It advocates for policies that “favor a Production Economy” to “Make America Great Again.” While criticizing the World Trade Organization, it's worth noting that the document does not call for the US to abandon the institution.  

On their last day of work under Ambassador Katherine Tai, US Trade Representative staff announced a new Forced Labor strategy, model negotiating texts and a successful resolution of a USMCA dispute with a Mexican architectural glass factory. As the supporting documents for the Forced Labor Strategy have been purged, we can expect a revision in the policy under the new regime.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative announced Tuesday that it is opening a process for interested persons to request that certain machinery be temporarily excluded from Section 301 duties in the Investigation of China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation.   Consistent with the President’s direction, the exclusion process covers particular machinery used in domestic manufacturing classified within a subheading under chapters 84 and 85 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. 

The Administration plans to release new policy ideas on how to respond to non-market economy policies and practices, Assistant US Trade Representative Sushan Demirjian told members of the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity yesterday. “USTR is considering how non-market policies and practices, including non-market excess capacity, threaten the integrity of our supply chains,” she told the gathering.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) today announced that Katy Mastman will serve as Assistant United States Trade Representative (AUSTR) for Labor Affairs. Earlier this …

The Administration is making US workers a top priority in ongoing trade talks through the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity and with Kenya and Taiwan, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Thursday. “Through all of this, we have made it clear to our trading partners that workers are at the heart of what we do. And it turns out that we all want to build our middle classes,” she told a meeting of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

The NTE Report sets out an inventory of significant foreign barriers to, or distortions of, U.S. exports of goods and services, including agricultural commodities and U.S. intellectual property; foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, especially if such investment has implications for trade in goods or services; and U.S. electronic commerce. USTR invites comments to assist it and the TPSC in identifying significant foreign barriers to, or distortions of, U.S. exports of goods and services, U.S. foreign direct investment, and U.S. electronic commerce for inclusion in the NTE Report.

Evidently the "strong concerns with Canada’s unilateral digital service tax" the USTR cited in the readout of last weeks meeting between Ambassador Katherine Tai and Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade, and Economic Development, Mary Ng. Involved a preview of a USMCA dispute settlement complaint. Friday Tai announced that the United States has requested dispute settlement consultations with Canada under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) regarding Canada’s recently enacted digital service tax (DST).

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative are accepting applications for new members to serve on agricultural trade advisory committees. Members of …