Trans-Pacific Partnership

Should the Section 232 investigations into the national security implications of steel and aluminum imports lead to presidential actions against foreign producers, the U.S. will “probably” face legal challenges domestically as well as at the World Trade Organization, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Monday.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will appear before the Senate Finance and House Ways & Means panels next week to discuss the administration’s trade agenda -- and likely will face a batch of questions on his team’s modernization plans for the North American Free Trade Agreement, members of the Finance Committee told Inside U.S. Trade Tuesday.

Canada and Mexico stand to gain the most from the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to a new study on the economic effects of moving forward with the agreement without the U.S.

The prime ministers of both countries will meet this week to talk about the deal.

A look back at what went on in Hanoi.

Board members and executives from BSA | The Software Alliance met with members of Congress and the administration this week to propose a digital trade agenda for a modernized NAFTA and endorse the continued operation of the U.S.- EU Privacy Shield.

Inside U.S. Trade spoke with the trade minister in Hanoi about TPP and the country's trading relationship with the U.S.

A Q&A with Kentaro Sonoura, from Hanoi.

HANOI – Trade officials from Japan, Australia and New Zealand, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ministers meeting here, told Inside U.S. Trade they were not in favor of reopening provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a way to ensure its entry into force without the United States – citing a potential unraveling of the deal and the maintenance of the high standards agreed to when the U.S. was still involved.