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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
The Trump administration is breaking with predecessors in the way it approaches trade negotiations, said Julie Callahan, a senior U.S. trade representative official. Narrower agreements like sectoral trade deals covering a specific industry may be preferable to sweeping FTAs, she said.
U.S. ag groups flagged non-reciprocal tariff rates and trade barriers and weighed in on the design of new duties and what the U.S. should do with the revenue in submissions to trade officials.
Jamieson Greer, Trump’s pick to lead the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, pledged to secure new markets for U.S. ag, examine China’s shortcomings under the phase one deal and lower tariff barriers in the biofuels sector.
The Mexican government on Wednesday repealed an import ban on genetically edited corn after the U.S. successfully argued the measure violates its commitments under a North American free trade deal.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to helm the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will appear before the Senate Finance Committee today in what promises to be a tariff-heavy hearing.
The Senate Agriculture Committee is set to advance the nomination of Brooke Rollins as agriculture secretary this week, while the Senate Finance Committee will take up the far more controversial nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of health and human services. USDA issues a new farm income forecast amid a new trade war.
Some are eying a trade deal with China inked during Trump’s first term as a tool to protect farmers from export losses triggered by retaliatory tariffs. But experts argue that absent new negotiations, enforcement options are limited.
President Donald Trump has wasted little time making news on the trade front. He told reporters Monday night he expects to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico a week from Saturday.
Former U.S. Trade Representative and trade policy architect Robert Lighthizer has so far been overlooked for key economic policy roles — a move some who worked closely with him say could hamper Trump's trade policymaking.
President-elect Donald Trump is bringing China hawk Peter Navarro back to the White House as a top trade adviser, adding to a trade team that features a mix of Wall Street veterans and protectionist policy specialists. In other words, the trade team for Trump’s second term looks a lot like the first.
