The country was removed from the United States’ unilateral trade preferences program, and tariffs on steel from Turkey were lowered from 50% to 25%.

House Democrats are seeking beefed-up labor, environment, enforcement and pharmaceutical provisions in the trade agreement.

Sen. Chuck Grassley said Americans “need to know” the Trump administration understands the economic pain they would feel in a prolonged trade war.

If implemented, the tariffs will affect approximately $300 billion worth of goods from China in yearly import value.

The agency issued guidance on Friday detailing the specifics of the tariff increase from 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of goods from China.

Australia, Japan and Singapore are leading the World Trade Organization e-commerce initiative.

Trade attorneys reported that the notice for tariffs to increase from 10% to 25% applies only to goods that are both exported and entered for consumption after 12:01 a.m. Friday.

House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer said consideration of the bill could slip into the next Congress and presidential term.

The agency on Wednesday officially announced that tariffs across $200 billion worth of goods will increase to 25 percent on Friday.

Tariffs across $200 billion worth of goods in yearly import value will be raised from 10 percent to 25 percent on Friday, the president tweeted on Sunday.

The House committee on Friday sent its latest in a round of letters to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer outlining concerns with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The agency on Thursday released its strategy for 2020-2025 in which it highlighted predictive analytics as a potential tool for trade enforcement.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer made the statement about the third tranche of tariffs in response to questions after a Ways and Means hearing.

“The dairy industry couldn’t be more clear: Pass USMCA,” said Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas.

Passage of Mexican labor reform legislation was a key commitment included in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

“There is no appetite in Congress to debate USMCA with these tariffs in place,” the Senate Finance Committee chairman wrote in The Wall Street Journal.

A public session will be conducted after the U.S. and South Korean officials sit down in Washington in May.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its annual “Special 301” report on Thursday.

The committee advises the office of the BIS assistant secretary for export administration on technical questions affecting levels of export controls.

Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Martha Barcena Coqui on Monday said the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s pioneering labor reforms shouldn’t be taken for granted.

The BIS and Census Bureau are preparing to release proposals to harmonize the Export Administration Regulations’ and Foreign Trade Regulations’ definitions.

FMC Commissioner Rebecca Dye provided an update on her agency’s ongoing detention and demurrage investigation.

A final draft on technical specifications and annexes for the World Customs Organization e-commerce framework is moving through the approval process, according to an official.

“I don’t know if it’s accurate; we’re reaching out to you to find out if it is,” attorney Ed Greenberg said at the NCBFAA conference.

NCBFAA conference attendees advised to challenge carriers if they claim they will start burning low-sulfur fuel before Jan. 1.

In some cases, companies are filing drawbacks for the first time in almost 20 years, according to Sandler Travis law firm attorney Michael Cerny.

House Ways and Means Committee Democrats say passage of labor law reform legislation by the Mexican congress is needed before they support the agreement.

Director-General Roberto Azevedo talked about the impacts of restrictive measures like tariffs on overall global trade and prospects for reforming the multilateral body.

Labor, environment and affordable health care among the priorities laid out by Rep. Richard Neal in a letter to to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

The successful talks will re-establish Peru’s forestry and wildlife supervision agency as an independent entity.

There is no word yet on whether the Trump administration might appeal the ruling.

The Iowa senator linked removal of steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico to a favorable congressional process of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The USTR has listed for retaliation about 315 items, including agricultural products, apparel, ceramics, metals and kitchen goods.

Trips to Africa, Mexico and Austria are on the calendar this year.

Mexican officials met with several House Democrats as their congress looks to OK labor reform legislation in line with provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The Commerce Department has now processed more than 45,000 of a total of roughly 80,000 exclusion requests, a BIS official told a Senate panel on Tuesday.

Even in a tough auto market, a bilateral trade agreement could provide opportunities for U.S. automakers to expand their market share in Japan, execs said at a trade panel.

The confirmation of Jeffrey Kessler coincided with a Senate rule change to expedite consideration of nominations.

A state pork producers association board member told a House subcommittee that Mexican and Chinese retaliatory tariffs have had a huge negative impact on U.S. pork exports.

A Chinese trade delegation led by Vice Premier Liu He is in Washington, D.C., and tariffs and enforcement are expected to be major topics of this week’s meetings.

The regulatory summary that clarifies the quarterly reporting requirement is in addition to the separate NRC annual reporting reporting requirements.

The Appellate Body upheld WTO panel findings that the U.S. provided unfair state tax breaks to Boeing and that rejected EU claims of U.S. subsidies unfairly impacting Airbus aircraft sales.

Section 301 tariffs on goods from China are hurting some U.S. businesses downstream in the industrial supply chain, after the U.S. started imposing the measures last summer to generate changes […]

The Senate Finance Committee said in “coming weeks” the panel’s chairman will introduce a bill allowing Congress to stop Section 232 duties after they are imposed.

Representatives of organized labor told a House subcommittee on Tuesday that the U.S., Canada and Mexico should get back to the negotiation table.

Style Pantry LLC of California is claiming intellectual property law violations have been committed with the importation and sale of women’s clothing.

The exclusions will extend through March 25, 2020, and are retroactive to July 6, when 25 percent tariffs across $34 billion worth of goods from China began.

The agency also posted 2018 import statistics related to the Generalized System of Preferences on its website.

The Labor Department has determined that significant reductions in forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector have recently occurred.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Wednesday released a notice announcing Section 301 tariff exclusions for 33 additional product types.

President Donald Trump on Dec. 21 ordered the regulatory changes, which will take effect April 1.

U.S. tariff levels on China apparently will depend on how far China is willing to go in agreeing to Trump administration requests for trade enforcement and other priorities.

The government watchdog agency found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection expanded its reimbursable services and donations acceptance programs over the last year.

The bills introduced by Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M., and Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., focus on bolstering CBP staffing.

The Government Accountability Office said the Small Business Administration can take steps to improve oversight of its State Trade Expansion Program grants to states.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testified before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday during a hearing on World Trade Organization reform.

People involved in negotiations gave a ringing endorsement of the pact’s labor and environmental provisions, a hot topic as Congress expects to consider the deal soon.

Members of the trade community presented several ideas on Thursday for reforming the World Trade Organization as the U.S. continues to work with the EU and Japan on ways to […]

Association representing the kitchen cabinet industry says it’s one of the “largest trade cases” filed against China.

Ministers from three member states of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership expressed support for the possibility of the U.S. rejoining the agreement.

The State and Commerce departments work to release final rules to shift some firearms and related items from the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Control List.

The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee this week in a letter urged U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to maintain the current $800 de minimis level in forthcoming USMCA implementing […]

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said he’s “not foolish enough” to think one trade negotiation with China will change all allegedly unfair commercial practices.

The latest opposition stopped a proposal by 73 WTO members to end an impasse as the U.S. continues to voice its concerns about the functioning of the panel itself.

The coalition will lobby Congress to approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The seizures happened in several separate incidents at two ports of entry along the southern border in recent days.

The petition cited apparent problematic fishing practices near New Zealand, which reduced the dolphin population to almost 2,000 over the past 45 years.

The department is looking for members to fill the 2019-2021 term of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa.

EU Ambassador to the U.S. David O’Sullivan told reporters that any imposition of Section 232 tariffs on automotive imports from the EU would end bilateral talks toward a free trade […]

Tariffs had been set to rise across $200 billion worth of goods from China on March 2.

Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S.discussed the prospects for USMCA-implementing legislation in her country as analysts weighed in on the variables that could impact entry into force.

A KPMG trade analyst during a webinar outlined several measures companies subject to Section 301 duties might look into in order to remain competitive.

If the U.S. and China can’t agree on a deal for economic structural reforms in China by the end of March 1, 10 percent tariffs will climb to 25 percent.

Undersecretary said her government is “not considering anything” other than the agreement as it is written, amid calls from some Democrats to renegotiate certain parts.

Section 301 tariffs across $200 billion worth of goods from China are set to rise from 10 percent to 25 percent on March 2, unless the U.S. and China can […]

But U.S.-China Business Council Senior Vice President Erin Ennis indicated she sees a path forward in negotiations during the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones Legislative Summit.

The bill would realign Section 232 investigative authorities with the Defense Department and let Congress strike down any ordered duties through a resolution of disapproval.

The board’s executive secretary said companies intensively involved in re-export activities are among those seeking to benefit from the foreign-trade zones program.

Commenters call for China to be identified for the 15th straight year as a country of major intellectual property concerns.

The agency set forth procedures to claim exclusions granted by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Section 301 duties on goods from China.

Trade aspects of the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2017 will be covered.

The U.S. and China will re-engage in trade talks with Section 301 tariffs set to rise to 25 percent on March 2 if the countries can’t reach a deal.

The State Department announced that it issued a presidential permit in November to the General Services Administration to start construction.

Commerce provided notice to Mexican signatories on Wednesday, after industry and lawmakers pushed for a pullout of the 2013 agreement.

The International Trade Commission pushed back decisions on whether to institute Section 337 investigations because of the partial government shutdown.

The reintroduction of the Trade Security Act is the most recent proposal to check the executive branch’s ability to impose national security-based trade remedies.

In its report to Congress, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative expressed concern about China’s support for Appellate Body proposals.

Jeffrey Kessler would be tasked with ensuring compliance of U.S. trading partners with free trade agreements.

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday favorably reported the nomination of Jeffrey Kessler, setting up the full Senate to consider confirmation.

House Transportation Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio highlighted the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and gas tax as critical issues that must be addressed.

Letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross calls for end to agreement suspending antidumping investigation.

The Agriculture Department and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will accept nominations for four-year terms until March 1.

CBP is slated to publish Tuesday a ruling that found the U.S. to be the country of origin of certain Ethernet devices for purposes of U.S. government procurement.

As another bilateral round of talks concluded this week, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said U.S. and Chinese officials extensively discussed enforcement.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce CEO said Parliament probably will want to see how legislative consideration of the pact shakes out in the U.S. first.

The Office of the USTR submitted a description of changes to existing U.S. laws required to bring the U.S. into compliance.

Panels will review U.S. Section 301 tariffs on China and retaliatory tariffs by Turkey against U.S. Section 232 measures.

Operations resumed Monday following the end of the government shutdown, but it’s still not business as usual.

The Reciprocal Trade Act would allow the U.S. to increase tariffs based on higher tariffs in other countries.

The Coalition for a Prosperous America pushed for a look at taxing corporate profits based on the location of sales.