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“For climate action to be a day-one priority, the work cannot wait until January 20, 2021 – it must begin now as you determine your personnel appointments.”

A proposal addressing technical corrections to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is part of an omnibus legislative package expected to be passed by Congress on Monday, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade.

The U.S. should not include controversial language on internet liability protection for online companies in a trade agreement with the United Kingdom, a bipartisan group of senators told U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer last week.

“Many of our outstanding questions attempt to understand what it means to implement a holistic and effective enforcement strategy.”

Many of Mexico’s labor obligations under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement remain unimplemented, an independent review board says in its first report to Congress, outlining a slew of concerns while offering recommendations for how the country can better fulfill its commitments.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Tuesday said renewing the Generalized System of Preferences could be “very difficult” before it expires at the end of the year.

A new mechanism to address trans-Atlantic data flows must be a top priority for the Biden administration, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) said this week, joining other senators in exhorting administration officials and private-sector representatives to map a path forward following a European court's invalidation of Privacy Shield.

The U.S. should “embrace” Europe’s recent overture to improve trade relations with the U.S. and forge a new arrangement to counter China’s “intensifying” ambitions, House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) said this week.

Even a one-day lapse of the Generalized System of Preferences program would be “too much” for industry to handle, Eric Byer, the CEO and president of the National Association of Chemical Distributors, told Inside U.S. Trade this week.