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Friday, September 27, 2024
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2017 - President Donald Trump today officially pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade pact that the Obama administration spent years orchestrating in order to give the U.S. a new leadership role among Pacific Rim countries.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 – Wilbur Ross, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Commerce Department and play a major role in international trade negotiations, spent much of a four-hour hearing today working to calm senators’ fears of losing U.S. export markets because of Trump’s aggressive trade stances.
A long-feared ruling by ChinaÐs Commerce Ministry to slap import duties on U.S. distillerÐs dried grains with solubles (DDGS) will effectively kill U.S. exports to the country, U.S. Grains Council President Tom Sleight said today.
It became clear by the end of the summer that there was no possibility to conclude negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) in 2016 or even 2017, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Tuesday.
Trump filled the last major trade position in his administration on Tuesday by announcing that trade lawyer Robert Lighthizer would become U.S. Trade Representative. Lighthizer, who served in USTR during the Reagan administration, is known for pursuing trade actions against Chi
Is Mexico sneaking tons of refined sugar across the border, disguised as raw product? Some U.S. refiners believe so and the issue promises to be an early test for the incoming Trump administration.
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert Lighthizer as U.S. Trade Representative, where he0ll play a major role in Trump0s plan to scrap or renegotiate multilateral trade deals including NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is threatening to bring back tariffs against certain European Union agricultural exports if the trading bloc doesnÐt ease its ban on U.S. beef treated with hormones.
ItÐs been three months since China announced that it would lift its 13-year ban on U.S. beef, but trade still hasnÐt resumed and the delay is testing the patience of U.S. ranchers.
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