USTR

“Imports are crucial both to meet current demand and to continue to grow the market for the benefit of all growers, domestic and abroad.”

If the outgoing Trump administration moves forward with imposing Section 301 tariffs on goods from Vietnam, companies and other critics will have little time to express opposition before President-elect Biden is inaugurated.

The Trump administration is imposing tariffs on additional goods from Europe in response to what it says were unfair calculations made by the European Union in its approach to retaliating against the U.S. for subsidies provided to Boeing, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said on Wednesday. 

Several industry groups on Tuesday urged the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative not to impose tariffs on Vietnam in response to alleged currency undervaluation, arguing the rising U.S. trade deficit with Vietnam is the result of Section 301 tariffs on China and warning that new tariffs would harm U.S. interests and consumers.

With less than a month to go before Inauguration Day, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has yet to comment on what, if anything, it is doing to cooperate with the transition team set up by President-elect Joe Biden to smooth the transfer of power for his new team.

The World Trade Organization should treat a country’s failure to uphold basic environmental standards as a subsidy and allow other members to impose countervailing duties to offset the benefit received by an industry that does not meet “a threshold of fundamental standards,” the U.S. proposed in Geneva last week.

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.