Tag: USTR
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A suspension of Section 301 fees on Chinese built and Chinese linked vessels expires on Nov. 9, a political extension announced in September has not been written into the Federal Register, and carriers say they cannot quote freight past the date. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2026 – The United States has a maritime tariff scheduled to…
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The 178 remaining China Section 301 product exclusions lapse on Nov. 9, the Trade Representative has just confirmed the underlying actions will continue, and no extension docket has opened with four weeks left on the clock. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2026 – The last 178 product exclusions from the original China Section 301 tariffs expire at…
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Fourteen economies sign a U.S.-led ministerial statement on structural overcapacity, naming autos, EVs, batteries, chemicals, semiconductors and solar as sectors of concern. China, Brazil, Russia and South Africa stayed out WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2026. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has assembled the broadest coalition yet behind its argument that subsidized industrial overcapacity is…
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New Delhi’s finance minister calls the negotiation a plateau and USTR Jamieson Greer says no deal is imminent, as Russian oil, agriculture and an unfinished Section 301 excess capacity probe keep a $34 billion trade relationship in limbo WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 Negotiations toward a United States and India trade agreement have stalled on three…
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USTR confirms the 2018 technology transfer tariff actions did not lapse at their four year anniversaries after 162 continuation requests, and opens a second statutory review that will decide the fate of roughly $370 billion in covered trade WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 The Office of the United States Trade Representative confirmed this week that the…
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Washington closes its G20 trade presidency with a 28-economy Milwaukee Framework on steel overcapacity, a blocked consensus statement and an open question about whether plurilateral coalitions can substitute for multilateral agreement MILWAUKEE, Oct. 6, 2026 The United States Trade Representative closed the books yesterday on a G20 trade ministerial that produced one durable institutional artifact,…
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Washington and Beijing move to unwind duties on roughly $60 billion of two-way trade, but the carve-outs tell importers more than the headline number does WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The United States and China have agreed to roll back tariffs on approximately $60 billion of bilateral trade under a reciprocal framework that trade officials on…
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A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade heard arguments this week on whether the administration’s forced-labor tariffs, covering roughly 99 percent of U.S. imports from 60 trading partners, exceed the authority Congress granted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026. The legal foundation of the United…
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Washington and Beijing publish the first product schedules under a new “30-for-30” tariff reduction framework, covering roughly $60 billion in two-way trade, but the lists arrive without rates, without effective dates, and without the strategic sectors that matter most. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2026. The United States and China have published the first concrete product schedules…
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A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade takes up whether Section 301 can carry a global tariff, eight months after the Supreme Court struck down the last one WASHINGTON, September 30, 2026. The legal architecture holding up the United States tariff regime faces its most serious test since February when a three-judge panel…