Commerce Department

TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have filed a new suit against the Trump administration contesting U.S. claims that it poses a national security threat because it is a Chinese-owned company that collects data on U.S. citizens.

The Commerce Department on Friday issued regulations outlining transactions involving TikTok and WeChat it plans to ban, degrading the functionality of the mobile applications as a means to address national security concerns involving the collection of U.S. personal data by Chinese-owned companies.

Following consultations with the Canadian government, the U.S. will refrain from imposing a 10 percent tariff on non-alloyed, unwrought aluminum from Canada, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said on Tuesday.  

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The U.S. trade deficit jumped by nearly 20 percent in July from the previous month to the highest total in more than a decade as the country continues its erratic economic recovery.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s new plan to address the complaints of southeastern seasonal growers about their Mexican counterparts is “politically motivated” and positions the U.S. as an untrustworthy trading partner, the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, which represents importers of Mexican produce, said on Wednesday.

An advance notice of proposed rulemaking issued last week by the Bureau of Industry and Security was broad in scope and did not delineate a definition of “foundational technologies” that need stricter export controls, but analysts believe the agency is laying out a path for a narrower definition to eventually be enforced.

Witnesses at the Trump administration’s recent hearings on the impact of seasonal produce imports from Mexico on the U.S. industry presented no real evidence that investigations or restrictions would be justified, a Mexican official told Inside U.S. Trade on Thursday, saying the issue has become “political” in an election year.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security on Wednesday published a long-anticipated draft advance notice of proposed rulemaking on “foundational technologies” and asked for industry input as the agency crafts a definition for the term, which was not clearly delineated in the notice.