Tag: USTR
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Greer hosts the G20 trade ministers this week with conditional most favored nation treatment on the agenda, a steel overcapacity ministerial bolted to the front of it, and the memory of a finance track that could not agree a communique four weeks ago. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer opens…
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A finished Section 301 report recommending a 7.5 percent duty on Chinese goods is sitting in a drawer at USTR until after Thursday’s Trump-Xi meeting, converting an unpublished tariff into Washington’s most valuable bargaining chip WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2026 The most consequential US tariff of the autumn is the one that has not been announced.…
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With 95 days until Washington’s threatened 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian vehicles, parts and steel take effect, the U.S. Trade Representative says there is no urgency to make a deal. Canada’s auto belt is doing the math. WINDSOR, Ontario, September 28, 2026 Ninety-five days separate Canada’s automotive sector from January 1, 2027, the date…
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USTR invokes the USMCA rapid response labor mechanism against a Japanese-owned tire plant in Coahuila and suspends liquidation on its entries, citing in the same breath the closure of Yokohama’s Salem, Virginia factory and the loss of nearly 600 American jobs. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2026 – The Office of the United States Trade Representative invoked the…
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USTR allocates the last 55,993 tonnes of the fiscal 2027 raw cane sugar quota across 28 suppliers a week before the October 1 opening, while growers press for Section 301 action against an over-quota tariff that has not moved since 2000. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2026 – The Office of the United States Trade Representative completed…
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USTR’s hearing on German drug pricing opened Tuesday with nine witnesses and a split industry, one week before a separate 100 percent pharmaceutical tariff reaches every remaining importer WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2026. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative convened its public hearing on Germany’s pharmaceutical pricing practices at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the main…
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Importers filed their reply brief on September 18 accusing USTR of a check the box investigation across 60 economies. The Court of International Trade hears argument on September 30 in the third legal assault on the administration’s global tariff By the US Trade Desk NEW YORK, September 20, 2026. The last brief is in. On…
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USTR holds back its Section 301 excess capacity findings on China days before a Washington summit, leaving importers with a 7.5 percent question mark and a truce that expires on November 10 By the US Trade Desk WASHINGTON, September 20, 2026. The Office of the United States Trade Representative has postponed the release of its…
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Washington holds back the Section 301 excess capacity report that would recommend a 7.5 percent duty on Chinese goods, preserving leverage days before a Trump and Xi summit and leaving importers to budget for a tariff that exists only on paper WASHINGTON, SEPT. 19, 2026 The Trump administration is expected to withhold the release of…
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Vietnam’s president heads to New York with as many as 29 commercial agreements in hand, an American goods deficit that has overtaken China’s, and three separate Section 301 proceedings hanging over the relationship. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2026 Vietnamese President To Lam travels to New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly carrying an…