U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is in Brussels with President Biden this week for a much-anticipated meeting between U.S. and European leaders that is expected to push forward talks on trade, technology and the trans-Atlantic approach to dealing with China.
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The Biden administration’s decision to resume U.S.-Taiwan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement talks is a “reversion to the norm” after the Trump administration – and could be a key step toward a bilateral trade agreement as well, according to Andrew Wylegala, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan.
House Ways & Means Committee Democrats have introduced legislation to reauthorize and modernize two trade-preference programs that they say will address “significant shortcomings in recently passed Senate legislation,” panel leaders said in a statement on Thursday.
World Trade Organization talks on an approach to waiving some intellectual property obligations in response to the pandemic will speed up to a weekly clip ahead of a July General Council meeting, when members are hoping to report some progress.
The Biden administration is considering a raft of options for how to implement supply chain improvement recommendations stemming from four 100-day reviews, including government procurement preferences and a 1980 law crafted to boost domestic capacity in areas of critical need, officials from the White House and the Commerce and Energy departments said this week.
Following Senate moves to renew two trade-preference programs, House Democrats have unveiled their own renewal legislation in a push to reclaim constitutional authority over the introduction of revenue-raising measures, Ways & Means Committee lawmakers told Inside U.S. Trade on Thursday.
The U.S. and the United Kingdom have agreed to a five-year moratorium on retaliatory tariffs for large civil aircraft subsidies in an accord designed to “finally” put longstanding disputes to rest, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday.
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The June 24 event will take place at the headquarters of the Delegation of the European Union in Washington, DC.
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